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Storm Chaser

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When I was attending my ninth grade, we had an assembly speaker who told us about how a tornado ripped through his town. The day that his school returned to session, his English teacher choose specific romanticism texts that involved tornadoes and weather. He stood before us as “In my own neighborhood, I had something that those writers described as beautiful and pure. The way they described it, I started to enjoy nature’s purest forms. I became so interested. I think I took the writers too literally by their ‘following nature’ talk that I ended up becoming a storm chaser.” 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 …show more content…

“To appear in the Norton or Oxford anthology is to have achieved, not exactly greatness but what is more important, certainly-status and accessibility to a reading public. And that is why, of course, it matters that so few women writers have managed to gain entrance to such anthologies” (Landow). If our nation were to follow the Norton or Oxford anthology, we would be mainly limited to the point of views of males, and we would only see the issues and themes that they try to portray through their writing. We would become oblivious to other issues that different genders and races have to go through. There are plenty of books which discuss these issues, but they were banned due to many different reasons. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is banned due to racist slurs that make the majority of the public uncomfortable. The book is banned even though the many themes in the novel can still be applied to today. If a national curriculum were to be put in place, would our nation choose these banned books to be required text or would they steer clear of these texts to avoid …show more content…

“Pioneer researcher, Florez-Tighe (1983), was one of the first educators to advocate the use of multicultural literature in school curriculum. Her research indicated that culturally authentic children’s literature enhances language development and thought processes of African-American children (Florez-Tighe, 1983)” (Pirofski). By having different cultures expressed to students in literature, they will more likely become more accepting and understanding of those who follow those customs. The languages expressed in the literature can also help strengthen the left frontal lobe of the brain which is the language dominant part of the

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