The Nonfiction Revolution By Connie Matthiessen

In her book Titled "Inheriting the Revolution" published by The Belknap press of Harvard University Press, and about 322 pages in length, Joyce Appleby talks about the transition that American citizens faced as a new generation of Americans was born to take the helms of the early republic, as it faced all sorts of sociopolitical changes during the time of the "First generation of Americans", a term she uses frequently throughout the book to refer to the generation of Americans born after the ones who fought in the war of independence.

Americanization can be both negative and positive depending on the perception of America by other countries. According to The Revolution Is Us by Thomas L. Friedman, the globalization of America is perceived as lazy, fast food based, technology advanced, and liberal in regards to tradition. “Today globalization often wears Mickey Mouse ears, eats Big Macs, drinks Coke or Pepsi, and does its computing on an IBM PC, using Windows 98, with an intel Pentium II processor, and a network link from Cisco Systems. While the distinction between what is globalization and what is Americanization may be clear to most Americans, it is not -unfortunately- to many others around the world.” If this perception is taken into Americanization, the effect would

The text I know why the caged bird cannot read Francine Prose describes the reasons why high school students seem to dislike reading. She supports her idea with saying the problem starts with teaching moral values through literature, instead of teaching the value of literature itself. She also blames the education system that enforces these books to be placed in the curriculum. These books only focus on a reoccurring problem like racism religion or gender identity. And the curriculum works around that to teach the student right from wrong and moral values. Which puts the student on a path of hatred to literature.

The school board is not quite certain that schools should continue to include fiction in the curriculum. However, if fiction is taught to students it may actually teach life lessons. Fictional literature can change someone's perspective on, what problems we may come across. For instance, a fictional book can help us relate to all the controversial problems that do occur in today's society. I disagree with the school board's thoughts about completely banning it. This type of literature can deepen our knowledge and teach us about things that we don’t experience on a day to day basis.

Throughout the essay, Prose argues that literatures in high schools are dumbing down the English curriculum. She says books that are “chosen for students to read are

"You're a human being, not an animal. You have the right to be loved" (262). "Son of the Revolution" by Liang Heng and Judith Shapiro was a book that showed how inhumane many of the aspects of Chinese life were during the Cultural Revolution. The book followed Liang Heng through many of his childhood memories to his departure from China in his twenties. The book applied a real face to the important movements during the Cultural Revolution, the effects that "the cult of Mao" had on society and Heng, and the way the period affected Heng's personal family life.

“To Dumb for Complex Texts?”, an essay by Mark Bauerlein, states high schools are at fault for students inability to comprehend complex texts. Bauerlein starts by noting students who enter college are not as prepared as they should be, evidenced by their placement exam scores. Bauerlein goes on to state the lack of readiness is due to high schools increasing focus on digital reading, rather than the physical form. Additionally Bauerlein writes that complex reading is not thoroughly integrated in to student curriculum. Bauerlein believes that because of the high schools simple literature curriculum, students beginning college have not been properly exposed to complex texts, and as a result cannot properly comprehend the readings assigned in

Joseph Ellis, author of "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" is a man of great knowledge. Ellis won the Pulitzer Prize for this novel and has won a National Book Award for a biography on Jefferson. Additionally, Ellis is a New York Times Bestseller and has had several of his works and critics published on The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, The New Republic, and The New Yorker. Ellis has also appeared on commentaries such as CBS, CSPAN, CNN, and PBS because of his scholar in American history. Ellis studied attended received his B.A. from the College of William and Mary (1965) and earned a Master of Arts, a Master of Philosophy, and a Ph.D from Yale University. Ellis was a

Wednesday, I'm being bored in the class because of a subject called Revolutionary Way. I have just come here since Sunday but I feel like it's a week. Many tests are waiting for me next November, so I have to study from now, I think. But there is a problem, that's I don't want to do anything. I had coughed for 2 weeks. I'm tired. I miss my mommy. I miss Yen Bai's air. I miss breathing in that air. I miss looking at the sky when I lie in front of side word with my mom. It's so

The workout is not challenging that students body, instead it is in their comfort zone. Same thing happens with the brain. If students just read nonfiction everywhere everyday, parts of their brain will not develop as strong because they are not thinking as much. Instead of pushing nonfiction into ELA class, have the nonfiction that is already in the class show what it is worth. If the value is phenomenal and enough for students to go off as an example, let them read it. If the value is congruent to a text similar in a different academic class and not fresh, do not give it to the students to read because it would be a waste of ELA time. Make the time dedicated to nonfiction valuable and leave it to the other classes to have students learn about the solar system. A teacher writes “ I can’t imagine a well-developed mind that has not read novels poems, and short stories.” It is true, nonfiction is more straightforward, where fiction on the other hand, makes students think about context clues and makes them create inferences about what might happen next in the

When kids read, they can lose themselves in imaginary worlds and zone out half way though what there reading, kids should read more historical texts because they need to know what happened in the past and how we got to where we are because t levels the playing field. Some kids come to class with a deep background knowledge to draw upon, while others have just shallow reservoirs. Reading historical fiction promotes academic equity because comparing books from one unit to the next provides kids with equal opportunities to develop historical analogies.,

Is it important to read non-fiction books in 6th grade language arts. That is a question that my teacher has been asking for a long time. I think we should read nonFiction books or articles. It is good to read nonfiction because if all you read is fiction you what is going on in the world, there would be no text books or online articles, and when 6th grade students go on into 7th and 8th and into high school they would be lost.

Theda Skocpol grew up in Detroit, Michigan, received her B.A. from Michigan State University and went on to earn a PhD from Harvard in sociology, where she is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Sociology and Government. She is widely regarded in academic circles for her unique approaches to understanding political and social science issues. In 2007, Skocpol was awarded the John Skytte Prize in political science, one of the world’s most prestigious, academic awards. Theda Skocpol’s, Social Revolutions in the Modern World, was widely published in 1994 and presents an extension of her structurally-based, comparative analysis of various social revolutions. In addition to this book, she has also published numerous other works including

Reading develops a person’s creativity. Unlike movies where everything is determined by the producer, writer and director, books allow students to create in their minds how a particular character looks like or imagine how a scene plays out.

The term “nonfiction” is a very broad classifier of literature. Alongside fiction, the two genres account for all the literature in existence. A quick internet search will present a number of genres that are considered nonfiction. From historical eyewitness accounts, to creative nonfiction, to biographies, there are many genres that people generally accept as factual. Memoirs and biographies are usually counted on the more reliable side. Thus, there exist a number of sub-genre that fall under the title of “nonfiction”. However, take a look past the surface, a number of problems with this stance arise. In all truth, the brains of human beings are the only source behind the facts of biographies and memoirs. As it turns out, this is the source is far from credible. Memoirs and biographies are not reliable sources of nonfiction due to the differences between brains, bias which affects the brain, and the faulty nature of brain functions.