It's All About the Literature

Yes! Text books need to be placed into their position they were meant for, supplemental teaching methods. In order to do this, a teacher must understand how valuable and knowledgeable they are in a classroom setting, as well as know their own boundaries. “Textbooks can never do the work for the teacher” (Kauckak & Eggen, 2007). Teachers need to teach and not use textbooks for personal placement over their own unique teaching methods. Mooney and Mausbach stated in their article align the textbook to fit around your teaching methods, don’t lose balance and leadership over the classroom. There are many other methods to textbooks than just hard copies, “a teacher could download a digital copy and use it for interaction on the smartboard” (Klymkowsky, 2007). Textbooks allow teachers to gain fabulous ideas for lesson plans, grade level building, and data consumption. “Teachers need to use their own creativity to format lessons to teach the students, so that all student’s needs are meet” (Klymkowsky

In the article “Why Literature Matters,” Dana Gioia discusses about how interest displayed in the arts has declined, especially in literature. Gioia uses a variety of different literary tools to create a compelling argument including appealing to the reader’s emotion, using facts and statistics, and creating a “call to action”. Throughout the whole essay, Gioia skillfully plays with the reader’s emotions to convince them. Gioia brings out aspects such as the consequences of the situation.

In Why Literature Matters Author Dana Gioia expresses and supports his opinion on why schools should support and teach arts and literature. Gioia shows the rapid decline in Americans not reading literature anymore, he shows the consequences you will face in the real world, like when you try to get a job. Gioia uses facts and statistics throughout the essay, as well as appealing to your patriotism.

Nowadays, people are facing an important problem of inheriting the interest in reading. In the Article “Why Literature Matters”, the author, Dana Gioia persuades his audiences that the phenomenon of Americans being deficient in reading effects the nation negatively. He strengthens his claims by using comparisons,quotation from compelling author, supportive evidences, and forceful words that can catch readers’ attention. The utilization of ethos and logos also give credits for backing his assertion. In the first paragraph, Gioia starts with “a strange thing has happened”, that gives people the sense of mystery.

In this passage Why Literature Matters by Dana Gioia, he argues the reading is an important thing to be doing.After he collected data which shows that “the declines have been most severe among younger adults”, which explains the reasoning for the lack of creativity and knowledge.Throughout this passage Gioia started it off with a survey that happened then was followed by why the study was important and was explaining the importance of it.

In the article, “Why Literature Matters”, the author, Dana Gioia, states how reading is taking a turn downhill as young adults are not reading literature. Gioia addresses that in order to fix the issue, politicians and business communities need to try and fix the problems. Dana Gioia uses a series of logical appeals to show how the decrease in literature is affecting the society.

The style and features an author use can help persuade the audience if clearly used. Dana Gioia in the essay “Why Literature Matters” uses factual data, superb word choice, and numbers to build her argument. In doing this, Gioia successfully persuades his audience into believing reading is a personal right.

Some topics are more interesting to read than others. In an article called ‘Why Literature Matters’ written by Dana Gioia, this article can be viewed as highly persuasive because of the techniques he uses to get his points across to the audience .Gioia is able to build arguments though his use of evidence and different literary techniques.

Prejudice. Stereotypes. Discrimination. Racism. These standards are four of many injustices that fuel the world today. They play a major role in much of America’s history and even more so in its literature. A historically significant event that demonstrates these characteristics is the integration of the Little Rock Nine in 1957 at Little Rock, Arkansas. The Little Rock Nine were the first nine African-American students to be integrated into a public school, and were subject to a whole country worth of hatred and cruelty while attending. Aspects of this event in history are similar those in the book, To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee for they

It was a cold winter’s night, with mighty winds blowing hard against Jimbo’s glistening pectorals. Jimbo bounded over a small, thorny brush in pursuit of his next victim. His prey was fast, remarkably so, but neither Man nor Nature could stand between Jimbo and his next meal. The prey’s foot got caught on a small twig, completely halting their breakneck speed. Jimbo pounced on the prey’s struggling body, and without hesitation, sunk his teeth deep into the victim’s abdomen. Jimbo let out an audible moan of pleasure, as there was nothing Jimbo loved more than the taste of fresh gazelle. Jimbo felt his rush of adrenaline slowly dwindle. He toyed with the flaccid limbs of the gazelle, not knowing what to do next. He had been exclusively a lion

A long time before humans were even here, there was an abundance of flourishing plants and thriving animals alike. There stood a lone Dingo, with one goal in mind to take down the rhinoceros who has been terrorizing his home and fellow inhabitants. The problem was that the rhinoceros was much bigger than the small Dingo, making it very difficult for the Dingo to do much at all to the one-ton beast. He took a night of planning and much thinking to come up with the perfect way to take down the rhinoceros who had been causing all the trouble. The next day the Dingo set out to find the rhinoceros and take him down, for the good of the land.

As Papa mouse walked along the forest path to the market, the hairs on the back of his neck stood up and he slowly turned around. What he saw terrified him (although he didn’t show it.) A giant rattlesnake slithered toward him and came to a stop about 2 feet away from him. Papa mouse winced as the foul and poisonous breath came his way.

Pieces of literature can have a really big impact in your life. For example, reading “The Rainbow Fish” by Marcus Pfister, can teach children that sharing will make you feel good inside. People of all aged can be impacted in ways they never thought possible while reading literature. It can either impact a person in a big way or a small way. There are two pieces of literature that impacted my life in a big way: “There’s No Place like Space” by Dr. Seuss and “A Brief History of Time” by Stephen Hawking.

Literature is a reflection of the time period it was written in as well as the author's point of view. This is considered to be the background of the piece and it influences all literary works. So why does it matter if you understand it?

In this book that I finish reading, The book has appointed a view which is a young boy named Billy. This boy Billy had a dream to have a Sweet shop and in a " Candy Shop. "one day he determined to have a walk, While he was walking he saw an abandoned building named " Grubber. "In the old time the word " Grubber ", A old way of saying sweet shop where he lived. On the next day, he finds him self that the old building has been renovated, And now become a head office for " The Ladderless Window-Cleaning Company".Billy enters the building and saw a Giraffe with an extendable neck; a Pelican, or "Pelly" as he is called by the others and a monkey. Which all of them become friend very quickly. The animal even had there favorite food, Pelican, especially