Traditional_Literature_Vs._Popular_Culture

Traditional Literature Vs. Popular Culture Traditional Literature vs. Popular Culture In the vision of an outsider looking into an average high school English lesson in today’s society what would they see' Many students from high school dread the required English classes in college. It is thought the reason for this is because the useless literature they were forced to read in high school, or because they were drilled with TAAS trivia rather than reading the needed literature for mental growth. This is why students pick popular horror and romance novels over well written literature. The classic stories so many authors have been recognized for are by far not useless works of art. Authors such as William Shakespeare, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Mark Twain should not be disregarded, but rather encouraged upon students. Granted, Shakespeare may not have much to do with someone’s future, but if a student does not open him or herself up to new reading material, they may never know if they will actually enjoy reading them and want to become an English teacher or professor. How often does a student hear a teacher ramble on about how great Herman Melville could depict such minuscule details of the literature, students, school, writers, reading, popular, taas, english, should, read, rather, high, fiction, authors, written, useless, teacher, talent, student, state, society, shakespeare, scores, recognized, plot, over, new, learning, instead, culture, college, classic, both, been, become