Ch.2

Chapter 2 is talking about the history of children literature. The oral tradition starts a long time ago by families who told stories about their family tribes around campfires. Everybody around the world has developed folktales and mythology stories about human beginning. Different types of literature are different all around the world, read by different to different cultures. In the mid 1400’s literary were mostly manuscripts written by monks and scribes. These manuscripts were very expensive and only the kids who were privileged to go to monastery school had them. After while an Englishmen name William Claxton discovered how to print more books cheaper. Most books for kids were written to improve their manner back in the early century. William Claxton was the one responsible for publishing he first English literature.
The Puritans had an affect on American literature where a law that requested that children be taught and apprentices to read. Puritans stressed that kids read books that strength their moral development. In the social development they look at children as young adults. John Locke believed at birth that kid’s minds are blank and need to be imprinted. Locke believed that children, who could read, should read books that are pleasant and suited to their capacities. The nest person who had a shape in children’s literatures was Charles Perrault who wrote folktales. Children finally had an adventure book that they could read. Towards the late 18th century the literature started to focus more on the children and their family. It also started to talk about God in the school houses for children to discuss on the topics of church. I believe that the literature took dramatic change towards the 1900’s. I just want to know why they change so much of having religion in the schools when we all scream about God and trying to get into heaven. I think we would all be better off if we got back to learning God’s word more.

chapter 1

In ch.1 you learn about the values of literature for children. Books helps bridge the generational gaps between younger and older people. At each age level someone will have favorite books and an authors. Literature aslo helps with people learning their heritage. Literature also helps with child development later on in life as well as emotional intelligences. Finally, the value of literature helps expands the imagination.

Second part in ch.1 is promoting child development through literature. The first part is language development in where reading helps with learning more words quickly ata young age. Next is cognitive development where children it helps in remembering, anticipate, and percept things better. Children begin to look at things from different perspectivesand learn differently to. You also get a personality development with reading literature. This stage helps build a persons character later in life. They build a great self esteem in life that they can interact with different people.

The next stage is social development on where that children gains the beliefs and values that people older than them provide for them. Children becomes able to appreciate things more and able to channel their behaviors better in life. Readers also bring experiences with them when they read other books. Children have different responses to literature. Literature can motivate kids after they analyze everything in the text. In this chapter you learn that reading literature has many different stages in where they help children later in life. The chapetr help me in that it showed me when I get ready to have kids how important it is for them to read. Since I have been working with kids, I have found a love for reading historical and biograhical books. I do now look at things different after I have read something out of the ordinary. The one question I have about this chapter is that how can kids under three real analyze books at such a young age.