I feel this is a good idea because normally, students are all assigned the same book in one class, and that is the book the whole class will study for a period of time before moving on to the next. However, this method is lackluster as it doesn't recognize a student's individual interests in genre or writing style. Providing a wider variety can help students become more engaged and can help students learn what kind of writer they are.

Commonly, teachers would ask us during lessons to identify the "author's purpose". We'd also commonly have entire chapters or units dedicated to finding the author's purpose for writing what they wrote, but never to identify the author's attitudes, viewpoints, beliefs, etc. It was simply our job to figure out if they wrote to entertain, persuade, or inform.

The implementation of NCLB and CommonCore standards were, in my opinion, a huge shift in the way K-12 education was done in the United States. I remember CommonCore Mathematics being criticized for its overly-complex systems of solving and ineffective curricula. Coupled with the NCLB act, which consists of a lot of high-stakes test taking, these new programs/acts are doing less for students as they intended.