JAN 18 ASSIGNMENT: Choose one of the exploration questions on page 40 of our textbook and write your own one-paragraph personal response exploring the ideas your chosen question brings up concerning historical models of childhood and related experiences, books, movies, expectations, attitudes and feelings by both children and adults, especially parents, other caretakers or relatives, and older siblings. Post your paragraph on the discussion bubble for this sidebar page. If you'd like, you can write about one of the children's books we read in the Jan. 11 evening class. Or as another topic choice, write up your own childhood experiences, evaluating them according to the eight models of childhood we discussed tonight. See the example response below written in poetic form:
What Child Would I Be?
If I were a child born in days of old, What story of me would be told? Would I be looked at as sinful? Evil from the very start. Perhaps a romantic child Born with a pure heart. If portrayed as a working child Would I pull my own weight? Admired as a sacred child Meant for the pearly gates? A developing child might be just right. To grow during the day and hold teddy at night. A miniature adult who acts beyond their age Might make a good story for every page. I’d like to think I’d be a bit more like Anne. Meant to be a boy, not at all the plan. What was discovered in her enchanting tale? Girls can be amazing though different from a male. Children are important, their value beyond compare, Even orphaned girls with flaming red hair. My story will be recorded in days to come. Boring to most, but exciting to some. Whatever the outcome, I’ll happily agree A story won’t capture the essence of me.
By Rebecca Montgomery, Children's Literature, Spring 2015
JAN 18 ASSIGNMENT: Choose one of the exploration questions on page 40 of our textbook and write your own one-paragraph personal response exploring the ideas your chosen question brings up concerning historical models of childhood and related experiences, books, movies, expectations, attitudes and feelings by both children and adults, especially parents, other caretakers or relatives, and older siblings. Post your paragraph on the discussion bubble for this sidebar page. If you'd like, you can write about one of the children's books we read in the Jan. 11 evening class. Or as another topic choice, write up your own childhood experiences, evaluating them according to the eight models of childhood we discussed tonight. See the example response below written in poetic form:
What Child Would I Be?
If I were a child born in days of old,
What story of me would be told?
Would I be looked at as sinful?
Evil from the very start.
Perhaps a romantic child
Born with a pure heart.
If portrayed as a working child
Would I pull my own weight?
Admired as a sacred child
Meant for the pearly gates?
A developing child might be just right.
To grow during the day and hold teddy at night.
A miniature adult who acts beyond their age
Might make a good story for every page.
I’d like to think I’d be a bit more like Anne.
Meant to be a boy, not at all the plan.
What was discovered in her enchanting tale?
Girls can be amazing though different from a male.
Children are important, their value beyond compare,
Even orphaned girls with flaming red hair.
My story will be recorded in days to come.
Boring to most, but exciting to some.
Whatever the outcome, I’ll happily agree
A story won’t capture the essence of me.
By Rebecca Montgomery, Children's Literature, Spring 2015