Blog post 5

 No, I am not content with swapping out Of Mice and Men for Twilight, because Of Mice and Men is a true classic that I believe everyone should read. Rather than Twilight, which is a sad attempt of writing on Stephanie Meyer’s part (no offense.) The writing in Twilight resembles the reading level of a 6^th grader; which is downgrading the reading level of high school students, because they are spending their time reading books that are in no way challenging. Which is why I believe we should have some classics in the curriculum; the students need and should be challenged. Although the challenging books should be entertaining and there should be activities with the books, to properly engage the students. The students need to read for the pure joy of it, rather than reading so that they can do well on a pop quiz.  I believe there should be a 60% for literary fiction and 40% genre fiction. Students generally wouldn’t read literary fiction, so I believe that schools should more reinforce literary fiction. With literary fiction there is a thin line between boring and interesting, so the teachers NEED to know how to make the book interesting and how to engage the readers; for example reference the story to modern times. If the teachers don’t make it interesting then the student won’t care, and end up spark noting the book; which should not happen.  I agree with Jodi Picoult in “I don't think readers have to choose between literary and commercial fiction” Basically Jodi Picoult is saying that a good book is a good book, it doesn’t matter what genre the book is in or whether the book is literary or commercial fiction, if the book has interesting writing, plot, characters; it should speak for itself. Rather than go under the category of literary or commercial fiction.