Saturday, October 23, 2010

What a Novel Idea

Books are important. For many reasons. And because they are so valuable, we should continue teaching novels in our English curricula.
Certain schools are dropping Novels from their curricula because of lack-of-funding. I'd argue that they can hold book drives, fundraisers, and book exchanges, etc. in order to keep the novel. Novels are too important to give up on them. They teach ethics, principles, different world views, different cultures, writing, vocabulary, inference skills, etc. They hold vast worlds and people--very in-depth, vivid, and detailed ones at that! They are fun, they hold our culture and history (even fiction) and you have a great sense of accomplishment once you finish

So there you have it. Novels are important. We should keep them. What a novel idea!