Some people argue that teaching literature in high schools is a sheer waste of time since it has little to no practical value. However, I contend that it provides essential moral orientation to students.
On the one hand, high schoolers might find it hard to apply literature lessons to real life. Indeed, writers or poets compose their works at a time that is fundamentally different from the present teenager’s world. More importantly, characters in novels are clearly fictional, possessing a set of behaviours that are not always relatable in modern terms. For instance, throughout the poem “Odyssey”, the hero resolved to use violence to settle all disagreements, an approach that would not work in our current, more peaceful civilisation.
On the other hand, it appears to me that this subject is crucial to the moral development of those at high school. While studying novels or poems, they are able to empathise with the characters, understanding their circumstances in the given settings instead of making subjective judgements. As a result, young learners would likely become empathetic graduates who are willing to appreciate contradicting opinions and cherish differences, eventually becoming more open-minded citizens. That is a testament why literature should be included in school curriculum.
In conclusion, although novels or poems may seem to be impractical, I am convinced that literature must have a place in high school programs to nurture well-educated citizens. Nevertheless, teachers should adopt more creative teaching methods such as role playing or plot construction to make lessons more relevant to their students.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, may, nevertheless, so, well, while, for instance, in conclusion, such as, as a result, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 10.4138276553 48% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 24.0651302605 91% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 41.998997996 81% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1397.0 1615.20841683 86% => OK
No of words: 254.0 315.596192385 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.5 5.12529762239 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.99216450694 4.20363070211 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.19532031573 2.80592935109 114% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 176.041082164 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.669291338583 0.561755894193 119% => OK
syllable_count: 425.7 506.74238477 84% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.2398192784 49.4020404114 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.416666667 106.682146367 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.1666666667 20.7667163134 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.75 7.06120827912 138% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.134195309196 0.244688304435 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0428108065006 0.084324248473 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0407624339826 0.0667982634062 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.081608041924 0.151304729494 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0316677213543 0.056905535591 56% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 13.0946893788 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 50.2224549098 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.62 12.4159519038 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.53 8.58950901804 111% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 78.4519038076 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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More content wanted.
Rates: 61.797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.5 Out of 9
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