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IN DEFENSE OF FICTION
2016
Overview
When the CCSS authors opine that in order to achieve college and career readiness, students need to focus on facts, they bypass a wealth of research about child development, reading development, and the influence of fiction on both. Without a textbook in sight, students described insights they gleaned about life in the Jim Crow South, Greek and Roman mythology, autism, climate change, the firebombing of Dresden, cloning, world religions, the conditions of slavery, censorship, the Vietnam conflict, steroid abuse among athletes, the Holocaust, survival in the wild, artificial intelligence, World War I battlefields, the sinking of the Titanic, the attacks of 9/11, the Trujillo regime in the Dominican Republic, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and the French Revolution. Crichton thought they were more like birds but still leathery. Because of his novel's inspiration, I looked up modern paleontology and learned that we know now that dinosaurs were mostly covered with feathers, fluff, and quills.
