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Originally Posted by ploesj
as for our own language: critics say youth doesn't read anymore. in school, students are no longer obliged to read certain books, they sometimes have to read one (choosing from a list), but hardly anyone does, in these internet days.
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It's too true. This summer we had to read three books, (The Stranger, I finished that in one day, All The Pretty Horses, fivedays, and The Poisonwood Bible, one week) and there were a ton of students in my AP Literature and Composition class who didn't read. I guess it is to be expected, considering many people did read. But this is the highest level of an English course that my school offers. The people are only there for the GPA boost/college credit if they pass the AP test.
Last year, people hardly read anything. MY teacher and I talked about why she couldn't get her students to really elevate and sophisticate their level of writing and diction, but we sort of boiled it down to the fact that a lot of it simply comes from reading. It can't just be learned through vocabulary tests.
Anyhoo, I'm off to school.
I'm reading Hamlet next week in class. I'm excited, hahahaha