Fiction in Our Curriculum
School is already as boring and dreadful as it is. Imagine if anything that even remotely has to do with fiction is completely stripped from the curriculum. It’s already hard enough as it is to get kids to care about their education. If you strip fiction from the curriculum, you’ll figuratively lose may of your students. In the book Where Things Come Back by John Whaley, it adresses issues about mental illness and other social issues. It portrays how mental illness can lead into drug use, suicide, and obssession. As well as society’s expectations. Fiction is a very important portion of our curriculum. It keeps students interested while teaching them important lessons in a beautiful format.
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“Benton Sage had, since he was a young boy, one ultimate goal in mind at all times: to make his father proud of him.” page 65. The author’s purpose in this part of the book is to portray how the expectations of other people, society can be included, can be completely demolishing for one’s mental stability. Failing to realize the signs of their mental illness can lead to them causing permanant damage to not only themselves, but others around them as well. This message that the author is trying to spread is through the art of fiction and is a part of a school curriculum. ‘’The boy did not move. Cabot tossed the flashlight back into the car, walked around to the back, and opened the trunk. He picked up the boy, straining to lift him up high enough to get him into the trunk, and dropped him in as gently as possible. He looked down at the unconscious boy and whispered, “Your date’s been canceled, Cullen Witter.”’ page 202. The author is now portraying how one’s permanant damage can affect others. It could emotionally scar someone close to you for the rest of their lives. That is what a character named Cabot portrays. In …show more content…
More people need to be informed in the signs and outcomes that may occur. It doens’t matter how it is taught to them. This may be through fictional books. “Mental health disorders, also called mental illnesses, interfere with a person’s ability to think, feel, function, express moods and emotions, and relate to other people.” "Mental Disorders." Gale Student Resources in Context, Gale, 2016. Student Resources In Context, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/OBTFDI800495972/SUIC?u=etiwanda_hsl&sid=SUIC&xid=e2f4fcc9 It is extremely likely that someone around you is suffering from a mental illness. It could be someone that you hold closely to your heart, or someone you barely know. Either way someone around you could be going through something horrible and you could be the one to save them. These things have been taught to several students through fictional books. This genre of books is helpful and informational. “As many as 6 in 10 substance abusers also have at least one other mental disorder.” Volkow, Nora D. "Addiction and co-occurring mental disorders." National Institute on Drug Abuse Pamphlets, vol. 21, National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2006, p. 2. Student Resources In Context, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A169023831/SUIC?u=etiwanda_hsl&sid=SUIC&xid=556a2399 People who have mental illnesses sometimes result in the abuse of life threatening drugs. This is a severe issue in today’s society
School is already as boring and dreadful as it is. Imagine if anything that even remotely has to do with fiction is completely stripped from the curriculum. It’s already hard enough as it is to get kids to care about their education. If you strip fiction from the curriculum, you’ll figuratively lose may of your students. In the book Where Things Come Back by John Whaley, it adresses issues about mental illness and other social issues. It portrays how mental illness can lead into drug use, suicide, and obssession. As well as society’s expectations. Fiction is a very important portion of our curriculum. It keeps students interested while teaching them important lessons in a beautiful format.
In the book Where Things …show more content…
“Benton Sage had, since he was a young boy, one ultimate goal in mind at all times: to make his father proud of him.” page 65. The author’s purpose in this part of the book is to portray how the expectations of other people, society can be included, can be completely demolishing for one’s mental stability. Failing to realize the signs of their mental illness can lead to them causing permanant damage to not only themselves, but others around them as well. This message that the author is trying to spread is through the art of fiction and is a part of a school curriculum. ‘’The boy did not move. Cabot tossed the flashlight back into the car, walked around to the back, and opened the trunk. He picked up the boy, straining to lift him up high enough to get him into the trunk, and dropped him in as gently as possible. He looked down at the unconscious boy and whispered, “Your date’s been canceled, Cullen Witter.”’ page 202. The author is now portraying how one’s permanant damage can affect others. It could emotionally scar someone close to you for the rest of their lives. That is what a character named Cabot portrays. In …show more content…
More people need to be informed in the signs and outcomes that may occur. It doens’t matter how it is taught to them. This may be through fictional books. “Mental health disorders, also called mental illnesses, interfere with a person’s ability to think, feel, function, express moods and emotions, and relate to other people.” "Mental Disorders." Gale Student Resources in Context, Gale, 2016. Student Resources In Context, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/OBTFDI800495972/SUIC?u=etiwanda_hsl&sid=SUIC&xid=e2f4fcc9 It is extremely likely that someone around you is suffering from a mental illness. It could be someone that you hold closely to your heart, or someone you barely know. Either way someone around you could be going through something horrible and you could be the one to save them. These things have been taught to several students through fictional books. This genre of books is helpful and informational. “As many as 6 in 10 substance abusers also have at least one other mental disorder.” Volkow, Nora D. "Addiction and co-occurring mental disorders." National Institute on Drug Abuse Pamphlets, vol. 21, National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2006, p. 2. Student Resources In Context, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A169023831/SUIC?u=etiwanda_hsl&sid=SUIC&xid=556a2399 People who have mental illnesses sometimes result in the abuse of life threatening drugs. This is a severe issue in today’s society