{"id":84,"date":"2012-12-20T14:19:40","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T14:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.literatureisnotextinct.com\/?page_id=84"},"modified":"2016-10-01T11:28:15","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T16:28:15","slug":"mission","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.literatureisnotextinct.com\/?page_id=84","title":{"rendered":"Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>SINGLE STATEMENT<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<h4>The mission of<strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\"> LiteratureIsNotExtinct<\/span><\/strong> is to celebrate literature&#8217;s affect on our modern world &#8212; and by so doing, engage students, encourage teachers, and support literature enthusiasts.<\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>OUTLINED OVERVIEW<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">&#8212;&#8211; \u00a01 \u00a0&#8212;&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>The primary mission of <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>LiteratureIsNotExtinct<\/strong><\/span> is to demonstrate that literature, and other material studied in English class, continually affects the modern world. \u00a0This site will celebrate the idea that literature is NOT old fashioned, or outdated, or unimportant, or mundane &#8212; at least, it doesn&#8217;t have to be!<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>For some of us, to understand literature in this way means we will need to rethink our previous definitions; and we may have to adjust some of the preconceptions we have from our own school days.\u00a0 Either way, we cannot debunk or abandon literature!<\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-405 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.literatureisnotextinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/logo-melding-canvas.png\" alt=\"logo melding canvas\" width=\"246\" height=\"26\" \/>Even in this technological society, literature of every kind thrives and lives:\u00a0 on a deep level, literature\u00a0 can help the men and women of today process\u00a0 their life experiences into small succinct lessons; \u00a0on what may seem a superfluous, but to some, equally important level,\u00a0 literature can also help men and women of today elude the immediate cares and trials of their lives in the form of mild escapism or immense pleasure.<\/li>\n<li>Simply put, literature just helps us cope.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">&#8212;&#8211; \u00a02 \u00a0&#8212;&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>In addition to the main mission written above, this website (including the persona, <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">NoOrdinaryEnglishTeacher<\/span>) has another related purpose that is twofold.<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<h4>1. \u00a0It strives to engage students<\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Many students &#8212; including the strugglers, the bright, the brilliant, the ill-behaved, the well-behaved, and the in-between &#8212; think school is an immense\u00a0 waste of their time.\u00a0\u00a0 To them, at best, maybe, school is only a means to an end:\u00a0 a graduation celebration, a secession of written assignments, a diploma, a rite of passage, a job that pays better, more status at work, the next career rung on an ever taller ladder, more freedom from what binds them at the moment, or the required step to those greener pastures.\u00a0 For persons out there who have never experienced any negative thoughts about their school life,<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> <strong>LiteratureIsNotExtinct<\/strong><\/span> expresses extreme awe and a little bit of jealousy, too.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>LiteratureIsNotExtinct<\/strong><\/span> can&#8217;t make all the negative hype about school disappear, but it does hope to show frustrated students a little piece of what can be fun about literature and other material studied in English class. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.literatureisnotextinct.com\/?attachment_id=404\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-404\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-404 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.literatureisnotextinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/logo-making-canvas.png\" alt=\"logo making canvas\" width=\"246\" height=\"26\" \/><\/a>The website also supports those students who, for the most part, don&#8217;t hate school all the time; and the site wishes to reinforce the sentiments of those students who, more often than not, actually enjoy school life.\u00a0\u00a0 For a few students, the &#8220;old-fashioned literature&#8221; or &#8220;boring stories&#8221; they frequently dismiss in the classroom environment, may become more interesting because\u00a0 technology and social media are involved.<\/li>\n<li>The &#8220;For Students&#8221; tab in the menu bar of this site offers tips, suggestions, ideas, literary connections, and social media links for students looking to do more with the English class material they&#8217;ve learned about in school.<\/li>\n<li>Some of the blog entries written by <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">NoOrdinaryEnglishTeacher<\/span> focus on ways to help students deal with what frustrates them about the school environment. Other blog entries are geared to celebrate the great and miraculous things normal students do in school every day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<h4>\u00a02. \u00a0It hopes to encourage teachers<\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li value=\"2\">Good teachers are so important.\u00a0 The really good ones work incredibly hard to connect with their students; produce lessons that teach crucial concepts; create activities that appeal to a wide range of abilities and personalities within their classes; give up personal time with their families and friends to grade papers and formulate presentations; communicate with colleagues, parents, guardians, administrators, deans, social workers, counselors, lawyers, law enforcement officers, you name it.\u00a0 They coach, they sponsor, they listen, they mentor, they demand, they encourage, they motivate.\u00a0 It is true, that perhaps all\u00a0 types of professionals may dedicate this much time to their jobs, and most of us already agree that teachers are fairly underpaid; but I wonder if it has occurred to anyone that teaching can sometimes be a pretty thankless job for what seems like a pretty selfless activity.<\/li>\n<li value=\"2\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>LiteratureIsNotExtinct<\/strong><\/span> applauds all good teachers; but it is particularly partial to the English teachers, especially the ones reviewing the written word of their students, and reading a multitude of books to stay one step ahead of the class assignment.<\/li>\n<li value=\"2\">The &#8220;For Teachers&#8221; tab on this site offers friendly suggestions, helpful tips, and various ideas for teachers to use in their classrooms when incorporating connections from <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>LiteratureIsNotExtinct<\/strong><\/span>.<\/li>\n<li value=\"2\">Many of the blog entries written by <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">NoOrdinaryEnglishTeacher<\/span> are designed to encourage teachers, support their endeavors, and validate what they do for their students. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">NoOrdinaryEnglishTeacher<\/span> knows that no good teacher is ordinary.\u00a0 Thanks, teachers, for what you do.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">&#8212;&#8211; \u00a03 \u00a0&#8212;&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>A happy by-product of the main mission and its related purpose is that literature enthusiasts\u00a0will be glad to know they are not alone.\u00a0 We have each other! \u00a0Together, we have a sympathetic ear through the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>LiteratureIsNotExtinct<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0community. \u00a0Take a look at the &#8220;For All&#8221; tab on the menu of this site to learn more. \u00a0Cheers to literature!<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.literatureisnotextinct.com\/?attachment_id=401\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-401\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-401\" src=\"http:\/\/www.literatureisnotextinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/logo-single-canvas.png\" alt=\"logo single canvas\" width=\"546\" height=\"82\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.literatureisnotextinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/logo-single-canvas.png 682w, http:\/\/www.literatureisnotextinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/logo-single-canvas-300x44.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"pinterest\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"en_US\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"Mission\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGLE STATEMENT The mission of LiteratureIsNotExtinct is to celebrate literature&#8217;s affect on our modern world &#8212; and by so doing, engage students, encourage teachers, and support literature enthusiasts. &nbsp; OUTLINED OVERVIEW &#8212;&#8211; \u00a01 \u00a0&#8212;&#8211; The primary mission of LiteratureIsNotExtinct is to demonstrate that literature, and other material studied in English class, continually affects the modern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"pinterest\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"en_US\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"Mission\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-84","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.literatureisnotextinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.literatureisnotextinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.literatureisnotextinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.literatureisnotextinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.literatureisnotextinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.literatureisnotextinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1138,"href":"http:\/\/www.literatureisnotextinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions\/1138"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.literatureisnotextinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.literatureisnotextinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}