Assignment Prompt & Instructions
– a year ago
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**## literature1.docx**
**Assignment 1 – 1 ½ pages**
For most of us, our first experience with narrative began with stories told to us by adults, sometimes a parent or grandparent, or a babysitter or other caregiver. A storyteller is someone whose tale makes a lasting impression. Can you remember a story that you heard as a child that had a lasting effect on you? What do you think you learned from your childhood experience with storytellers?
Assignment 2 – 1 ½ pages
10 picture books you read from the
[Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature](https://ufdc.ufl.edu/collections/juv) when you searched for "picture books."
Initial posts should be two paragraphs:
1. Briefly identify the ten works you selected and describe and summarize in more depth
**three** of the works.
2. For the three works, discuss what a child was supposed to learn in his or her reading of each work. This lesson is the explicit message of the text, but are there implicit messages?
Assignment 3 – 3 pages
This essay is based on the one book for beginning readers that you chose to read:
·
_Goodnight Moon_ by Margaret Wise Brown
· The
_Very Hungry Caterpillar_ by Eric Carle
· or another book listed in this module's reading in
_Essentials of Children's Literature_
Write an essay (3 pages, double spaced) making an argument about the way
**this book contributes to the development of a child reader**.
Make specific references to your book, considering the following in order to analyze the way the book contributes to the development of a child reader:
· the style of narration and, if applicable, illustration
· any elements in the story that are not found in the illustration, and vice versa, if applicable
· whether the text and/or images appropriately represent multicultural and social values
· visual or textual clues that may encourage non-readers or support learning and/or social development
**Remember:**
· Support your ideas with specific references to concepts in your textbook and, as appropriate, resources in the M1 readings
· Please double-space and use 12 pt. font
· Cite all references using
[MLA format](https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/)
· If applicable, you may also bring in additional resources.
· When discussing illustrations, include scans or photographs of the illustrations so I can understand what you are discussing, and insert them close to the points where you discuss them.
· Number your figures and insert captions: see
[MLA Tables, Figures, and Examples at the Purdue Online Writing Center](https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_tables_figures_and_examples.html).
**## literature1.docx**
**Assignment 1 – 1 ½ pages**
For most of us, our first experience with narrative began with stories told to us by adults, sometimes a parent or grandparent, or a babysitter or other caregiver. A storyteller is someone whose tale makes a lasting impression. Can you remember a story that you heard as a child that had a lasting effect on you? What do you think you learned from your childhood experience with storytellers?
Assignment 2 – 1 ½ pages
10 picture books you read from the
[Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature](https://ufdc.ufl.edu/collections/juv) when you searched for "picture books."
Initial posts should be two paragraphs:
1. Briefly identify the ten works you selected and describe and summarize in more depth
**three** of the works.
2. For the three works, discuss what a child was supposed to learn in his or her reading of each work. This lesson is the explicit message of the text, but are there implicit messages?
Assignment 3 – 3 pages
This essay is based on the one book for beginning readers that you chose to read:
·
_Goodnight Moon_ by Margaret Wise Brown
· The
_Very Hungry Caterpillar_ by Eric Carle
· or another book listed in this module's reading in
_Essentials of Children's Literature_
Write an essay (3 pages, double spaced) making an argument about the way
**this book contributes to the development of a child reader**.
Make specific references to your book, considering the following in order to analyze the way the book contributes to the development of a child reader:
· the style of narration and, if applicable, illustration
· any elements in the story that are not found in the illustration, and vice versa, if applicable
· whether the text and/or images appropriately represent multicultural and social values
· visual or textual clues that may encourage non-readers or support learning and/or social development
**Remember:**
· Support your ideas with specific references to concepts in your textbook and, as appropriate, resources in the M1 readings
· Please double-space and use 12 pt. font
· Cite all references using
[MLA format](https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/)
· If applicable, you may also bring in additional resources.
· When discussing illustrations, include scans or photographs of the illustrations so I can understand what you are discussing, and insert them close to the points where you discuss them.
· Number your figures and insert captions: see
[MLA Tables, Figures, and Examples at the Purdue Online Writing Center](https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_tables_figures_and_examples.html).