Young Adult Literature Reflections: Genres and Formats
Genres
and Formats
If you are not sitting down right
now, please do so for your own safety. I have some pretty earth shattering news
for you that will affect your life as you know it. Poetry is not a genre.
That blew my mind. I was taught all
through school that there were many genres and even have some genre posters in
my classroom. But we have all been misled my friends, because Poetry is a
FORMAT not a genre. The only two genres in existence right now are Fiction and Non-Fiction.
This will forever change the way I teach and I will shed this upsetting light
on my coworkers tomorrow. Wish me luck.
It was very interesting to consider
the pros and cons of “genrefying” a library, (even if we are kind of doing it wrong).
Part of me likes the idea of readers being able to wander a section in search
of something horrifying and finding something horrifying! Unfortunately, a side
effect of that is that if they like “Graveyard Book” by Neil Gaiman, they might
not find all of his other books in the same section! It does limit their
literary adventure quite substantially because they only see one type of
literature if they are not independently adventurous. We have to make sure
that, no matter how our libraries are organized, we help them find a variety of
reading experiences to… experience!
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