Blog Post #5--CCSS for visual literacy http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/ and NES text pages 136-140
What’s interesting to me is that the core standards don’t enforce a certain curriculum, only lays specific expectations for the results. Although they expect some knowledge of big name writers such as Shakespeare, they do not require students to have extensive knowledge of written works. My experience so far with these standards is only as a student, and I have never personally had any issues meeting the standard. However, I realize some people are less inclined to do well with reading and writing due to lack of interest. I see why we are studying graphics within language. Graphics are a great tool to get students interested in classical literature. If I had any visually artistic skills whatsoever I’d probably turn Paradise Lost into a comic book. I can almost visualize a graphic novel version of 1984. 

By the time a student reaches college the standards change quite a lot. Students at the college level are expected to independently have personal invested knowledge in a wide range of literature. This makes sense, as any student with a vested interest in literature would have read a good deal by this point in time. That being said, college exposes students to a wide range of literature which vastly and quickly expands the students’ knowledge. However, the core standards explain that a large amount of a college student’s past reading comes from high school classes. This includes a broad knowledge on many topics including science and social studies. This is ultimately the purpose of the language arts student: to have a broad knowledge of many things in order to transcribe communications between specialists in the future. In other words, a good language arts student will eventually be able to apply their knowledge into creating synergy between different elements of society. Even NASA has a public relations department. Somebody needs to make all that science lingo make sense to everyone who isn’t a physicist.

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