Readicide is a deadly problem within our schools in current day. The reading experience has been dumbed down into an analytical process where answers are right or wrong, where symbolism doesn't have individual meaning based on the reader, where anecdotal experience has no weight. The current education system has it all wrong, it would have you think that reading is always a logical process and never truly emotional, that everything is black and white and grey observations hold no merit.
The largest problem if you ask me is the poor choice of books and the overteaching of such books.To make a personal comment, in the case of my English class this year we were assigned to read Their Eyes Were Watching God. Throughout attempting to read this vocally out of touch book our teacher would routinely spoil plot elements in order to give an explanation for them and 'assist' us in our analyzing. Analyzation does not begin with someone analyzing a text for you, and for that matter factual analyzation does not help a reader in any way gather together an experience from a reading.
Things like solely picking out 'artistically' written books, and overteaching such books is killing the interest of current students in reading.
I agree that overteaching books is one of the main issues of readicide
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely genius oppinion on the topic. I hated their eyes were watching god as well and I agree with what you said about spoiling the plot to help explain. I like a lot of school books but Their eyes doesn't make the cut
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