The novel is dead. Maybe not good and trashy novels, but the classic novel is dead. Teachers, however, don't necessarily know the novel is dead, which is why they keep assigning it, but henceforth it shall be known, the novel is no more.
In the 21st century, we need to focus on bytes rather than comples thoughts. Texts rather than complete sentences. Nonfiction rather than fiction. Classic literature is dead.
Long, well-developed sentences are no longer necessary; ditto for spelling, grammar and punctuation. 21st century students need to know how to write in first person, tell a story, and while they're at it, who needs a thesis or any kind of evidence? Make up statisics on the spot, I say!
Pictures, photoshop, and webcasts, that's where the future will be! Who needs thought? Who needs planning? Write on the fly, hit send, and you're free. Free to express yourself in any way, shape or form. Who cares if students can't spell or understand parts of speech? No one wants to kill creativity.
In the 21st century it's all about me, me, me. Put me on YouTube, set up a free blog, pay attention to me. Essays are too long, make them shorter instead. The future's not literary; it's free, free, free. Call back the books, throw them out, put them in a museum. They're old, they're boring, they don't relate to me. Find me something on Alba, Gaga, or Bieber, not Faulkner, Morrison, or Shakespeare. They're old, they're dead. I can't relate to them, and if I can't relate to them then out in the trash I throw them with glee.
My attention span's waning. Who cares it's only 12 minutes? Let's cater to it, the national attention span average, throw out the novels, the spelling, the grammar, let us all be free, free, free, free to be ourselves, unhampered by novels, instead read blurbs, and blogs and articles. Make sure the reading level is 3rd to 6th, we don't want to work too hard. Because if we do, oh my, we might have to crack open a novel, a grammar book, or--heaven forbid!--learn how to spell or critically think!
