Textbooks Should Be Taught In Schools

“When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.” ― George R.R. Martin. Throughout history, schools have books banned books for a host of reasons, from politically controversial content to profane language or violence. Book banning should no longer be allowed in schools because parents should the ones deciding what their child can or cannot read, it violates the First Amendment, and it does not teach children and teens to think for themselves.

Although it would be interesting to see the teachers experience for books, I agree that it would be more effective to let students pick a book for the class to read for a variety of reasons. For example, when I was in 7th grade, most of the student didn’t like the books we read. If students pick the books, they’re most likely to like the book and be more focused and excited to read the book. This helps with their vocabulary and makes them get better at reading. If students aren’t even paying attention to the book, how will they know what’s going on and improve their reading skills? Overall, this is only one reason that students should pick the book.

Reading is boring, I hate reading. These are two common sentences that you hear before and after ELA class. This is because they are reading a book that is boring to them and they are not interested in that book. They are being forced to read rather than reading something that they will enjoy. This is why choice reading matters. Choice reading allows the student to be able to read what they want. This way reading becomes more of a hobby and less of a boring task to the student. Choice reading not only brings pleasure but it allows you to travel to faraway places, to imagine different world, to learn about different cultures and to learn about some of the top minds of history.

Teachers can not only choose texts suited to the events that occur in the students’ lives, but they can also choose texts suited to the students’ interests. According

According to the prompt, “Students in high school English classes in the United States can read texts that vary widely from school to school” (Prompt). In today’s world, different countries and nations vary in ways. However, one variation between countries that has came to notice, would be the fact that most nations have a defined national school curriculum, while other countries, such as the United States, do not (Prompt). This also means that students in countries other than the United States may all read the same books in high school, while students in the U.S. could read different texts in wide range from school to school (Prompt). The United States’s choice to not have a set English class reading curriculum for high schools has both, its advantages and disadvantages. Some individuals feel that this is positive because it creates diversity from classroom to classroom across the United States, while others feel that it is negative because having the same reading curriculum would ensure that students are gaining the same education and are reading material that is appropriate. However, high school English classes should not all have the same reading curriculum because it will limit the amount of opportunity for students, as well as it would exclude non popular and more recent pieces of writing.

History textbooks are not the definitive tale of the past. They are written by people with different biases and perspective and published by companies with motives other than knowledge. The truth is, facts are fluid, the interpretation of events change as ideologies and historical accuracies alter. So, why should textbooks be trusted? Call it a conspiracy theory, but we cannot look at information in textbooks with passive and accepting glances. Too often, there is a push for patriotism over learning and accurate information is ignored in place of a good and inspiring story.

This involvement with e-books may lead reluctant readers to spend more time reading and interacting with texts (DeJong & Bus, 2007). According to Moalloy, Marinak, and Gambrell (2010), reading tasks that motivate students have some important features such as the freedom to choose among alternatives and control over the reading tasks. This perceived control has had an impact both inside and outside of the class (Malloy, 2010). Also, Flowerday and Schraw found that learners who reported greater perceived control and choice of reading materials were more involved in their classes, and were more motivated to read at home (Flowerday,

When we talk about books we know for sure that all of them try to teach us something, even the worst book also try for the same thing. However, in order to educate Pre- AP students effectively we can only choose five books because we want them to know what they need to know. Luckily, I have to read two books in my summer. One of them is “My Antonia” and another one is “The color purple”. Both of them are good, but the one should be included in our five books is My Antonia. My Antonia is the book that will be able to teach our student from literature to life.

Although, it would be interesting to pick the books ourselves, I think it would be more effective for the teachers because they know the required standards and ways to pick the best book for the students. The teachers have been educated on teaching the standards so, the teacher knows the

I strongly believe teachers should pick our books for our school year. I believe this because 3 simple reason s 1st, teachers aren’t bias to what we read. 2nd, teachers literally went to college for this. 3rd teachers (mostly) read a lot of books so they are more experienced in the book world and know what’s best for us.

Banning books from school libraries is one of the main examples of censorship in American society today. While it is not directly preventing the authors from exercising their freedom of speech, it does prevent this information from reaching its audience. This limits students ability to form their own opinions and ideas on certain topics, whether that be about slavery or about vampires. In 1982, in the case of the School Board vs. Pico, the Supreme Court ruled that books may not be banned for any discriminatory reasons. This means that books cannot be banned simply because they do not conform to the political, religious, or nationalistic ideas of those banning the books as this would violate the First Amendment. I agree with this, as students

What sounds better carrying around a ton of heavy textbooks or one tablet that isn’t heavy? Schools all over the USA kids K-8 carrying heavy textbooks paying for new books every year, and having trouble keeping up with classwork. Having textbooks is a bad idea wouldn’t it be better to have tablets because they are lighter, more efficient, and useful.

Authors would have no reason to continue writing textbooks if only one gets chosen. Textbooks have their own ways the information gets presented, and the variety is useful. One with pictures may help children visualize the material, and understand it better. Not only will having the same textbook throughout the nation raise a problem, but it also impacts the Ivy League colleges as

I believe that there should not be specific texts that all students of High School English must read. The purpose of this essay is to give the reader a thoughtful analysis of my position of why there should not be specific texts. As a student, I have many teachers and have observed how each one of them teachers differently. I feel like if we make each school read the same books, we are limiting both what the students learn and how or what the teachers teach.

In our group activity today we discussed which book we will be reading for our presentation. The hardest part of this activity that we faced as a group was that we couldn’t decide which book we were going to use for our group proposal. Jaleesa. Aleksandra and myself choose “How Children Succeed” and Sasha and Dejean choose “Willpower”. Although this might have not seemed hard, it absolutely was for us because Professor Olson suggested that one or two of us should choose a different book in order for us to variety of books used during the group proposal. The easiest part of this activity that we faced as a group was when we had to explain our reasoning for picking that specific book.