Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Question 1


Period 4
Ap Language

Question 1 Revision
            The access of knowledge, can be either experienced or read. Literature offers students the opportunity to discover, think, evaluate, and analyze the world around them in broader, more universal terms.  Not only does it enrich your mind and vocabulary, but it also welcomes new thoughts, lessons, and ideas as well. Countries, like in Europe and Asia have a defined national school curriculum. Is it such a surprise at these countries lead in the educational field? The United States does not have a national school curriculum which might be the reason we have scored significantly lower than countries who do have a national school curriculum. Due to these different curriculums, students read texts that that vary widely from school to school. The source is given to us show the effect that this has on students,  learn certain things but others are not exposed to other literature. The minds of the students develop in opposing ways.

            As students across America are introduced to different literature, the students also faced the oblivion that may be included of not being exposed to a certain piece of literature. A student from Iowa and one from New York may be in complete different pages. Not even pages, and not even books, but mindsets.  Now this may cause a great conflict as the students cannot connect with they have read if they have not read the other. So what is the use? To know? When I read an excellent book, the first thing I do is ask a friend to read it as well. Why? To discuss it, because that is much more enriching than just reading it. It is better to know and to share with others your knowledge, so you can expand their horizon, and they can extend yours as well. Source B depicts what we all know. We all are on different levels. Public schools around 56 percent of them at least, have read of mice and men, including myself. On the other hand, private schools have not read it. Another example of her posing national curriculum is our public school and lack of the Iliad and the Odyssey, which I have not read. Though I do not attend a private school, I want to have the same opportunities.

            Students are exposed to different works of literature, which challenge them differently. This only proves that the effect of our school system has had on students. Students are oppressed and restrained to the chains of the system, causing other students to not be on the same pace. As if being a work working class member of society weren't enough being a student in the working class school is also a factor. Of course, we are not asking for a strict set of books that we all have to read, but maybe some books that are required, and the rest are up to the teacher to decide. We in the end are or hell towards the bandages as we are not as challenged at least not in the ways that we should be challenged. Source D shows the cover of widely used literature textbook and New York based on personal experience schools in this Angeles have never seen that book, as we do not use it. Students in Los Angeles, among other cities would love to learn about world masterpieces not just students from New York.

            Not only would multicultural literature expand our knowledge about the world outside our communities, it would also encourage our self-worth. According to source e, "research indicated that Cole truly authentic children's literature enhances language development and thought process of African-American children... Use of African African-American Folk tell is by teachers in the classroom can teach respect for African-American culture and affirmative house feeling of self-worth." Not everyone is exposed to multicultural literature, and it would strengthen our ability to interact with people of different backgrounds and culture if we knew more about them. Source A discusses the minimal exposure to women in anthology. Major colleges and biology classes should be accessed to high school students as well. If everyone read a book on someone else's culture, it would allow their perspective on them grow and allow them to have empathy.

            Students should not be forced to read only certain works of literature. Schools have a wide variety of gaps that are left in the students minds. Not only does that make us have more social differences, it also fuels us to have ideological differences. High school should share the same basic curriculum to prepare students equally for college, but allow them to expand their knowledge themselves.
Time periods may change, but people and society basically stay the same. The same themes that were present in the past, are still true today, and will remain in the future.

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