What should schools do?

I feel like a 21^st century English class should be similar to what we currently have in place with a few exceptions. I believe that we should continue to focus on literary fiction because they tell important stories that make you think but I don’t think we should completely focus on just literary stories. We also need to focus on some genre stories. High school students get bored and lazy and will resort to just using spark notes because it’s accessible and easy to use. If students got the choice of picking one of their books or a couple of their books to read that were non-literary. I believe we need to have 30% non-literary reading and 70% literary reading.

I would agree with Laura Miller about the growing gap between the literary community and the reading public because some people don’t agree with the books being on the National Best Sellers list. Maybe they don’t understand what is going on in the story or they just don’t enjoy reading that type of genre.

I would not be ok with swapping out Twilight for Of Mice and Men because Of Mice and Men is a treasured classic with an interesting story about two migrant workers while Twilight is just about a bunch of vampires and wolves and some random depressed girl. Twilight doesn’t tell a great story and it’s quite boring. Of Mice and Men has been adapted into many cartoons and animations such as American Dad, King of the Hill, South Park and the Looney Toons. It has also been referenced in Uncharted 3: Drakes Deception, and Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. This book has been referenced in many popular video games and TV shows that it has to have some influence on the people who created the TV shows and video games. The only influence Twilight has had is the growing the demand and hatred of vampires.