Connecting Students and Literature to the Real World: Motivation, Choosing Literature and Literature and the Real World
Literature is almost always seen as an art form. It is something that is meant to take you away from the real world for a while. Literature is a worldview from another perspective, place, time, or world. The language used in this literature is just a way to pass on information to others. So, literature is just kind of a time capsule of information being passed down for years and years. It is a more solid and concrete form of oral information. It can last forever if we are careful with it. Showing that this, sometimes old, information is useful or relevant to our students can be difficult for teachers in the English language arts classroom.