Gina Jarid Professor Young English 250 11/8/19

Prompt Chosen: In his article, Joseph presents several questions that affect
the "heart of human culture" that need to be considered in order to "enhance
capacity for informed citizenship and critical thought" in children. Discuss
HOW children's literature can be used to "equip young people for meaningful
lives filled with rewarding experiences, enriching relationships, learning,
intellectual and emotional growth and self-understanding."
Sentence Outline: "heart of human culture" Final Exam Prompt
Introduction: Studying children’s literature has been a wonderful experience for me. I
have chosen to reflect on prompt one. I believe that there should be
questions asked when creating children’s literature because children are like

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sponges and absorb everything and there should be some form of

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regulations as to what people put into children’s literature because it affects

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Thesis: Children's literature can be used to "equip young people for meaningful lives
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filled with rewarding experiences, enriching relationships, learning,
intellectual and emotional growth and self-understanding." (Michael).
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Topic Sentence 1: Children’s literature provides rewarding experiences and enriching

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relationships to its readers.

Reason 1: It provides rewarding experiences such as telling folk tales because usually
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folk tales provide a lesson within the story being told and rewards the
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readers for finding the moral to the story. Jack Zipes states, “Stories. .. affect
what people are able to see as real, as possible and as worth doing or best
avoided” (1).
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Reason 2: Children’s literature also rewards its readers with joy such as saying fun
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nursery rhymes. Some examples of these rhymes were, “marry had a little
lamb”, “jack and jill”, “hickory dickory dock”, “this old man”, “pop goes the
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weasel”, “rock a bye baby”, “baa baa black sheep”, “itsy bitsy spider”, “hey
diddle diddle”, “I’m a little teapot”, “humpty dumpty”, “yankee doodle”,
“twinkle twinkle little star”, and so many more.

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Reason 3: It also provides good relationships because it includes context to help better
understand some one different than themselves. Such as books that include
different ethnicities, disabilities, cultural backgrounds, and the appearance of
different people.
Topic Sentence 2: Children’s literature provides intellectual and emotional growth to its
readers.
Reason 1: Books are certainly used for educational proposes to help children learn
about certain topics. “The use of children’s literature is one way to develop
this awareness. A number of picture books and trade books featuring
children with disabilities have become available and are suitable for use at
home and in classrooms.” (Turner 351)

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Reason 2: Literature helps grow children’s emotional capacities by explaining different

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emotions to them.

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Reason 3: Text can also help children create empathy for someone by explain why a
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person is or is not a certain way.
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Topic Sentence 3: Children’s literature helps children understand themselves better.
Reason 1: Children’s literature may include content such as disabilities or learning
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styles that they may have not been aware of in themselves and the context
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with help children understand this part of themselves better. “Authors

commonly discuss these famous individuals from the perspective of helping
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the character with LD (learning disability) feel he or she is capable of making

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great achievements as well.” (Prater 59).

Reason 2: Children’s books may be of a cultural or religious base to help children
understand their background therefore providing a better understanding of
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themselves.
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Reason 3: Books may also provide historical based events to help children understand
what has happened in the past the in turn affects them now.
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Conclusion: Children’s literature is used to help children have a meaningful life that
includes rewarded experiences, enriched relationships, learning, intellectual
and emotional growth and self-understanding. Children’s literature rewards
and enriches children’s lives by making reading enjoyable and

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 understandable so that they can learn from the content given. Children’s
literature provides children with an intellectual and emotional growth by
providing information needed to help them understand their surroundings
and empathize with others. Children’s literature also helps children
understand themselves better by providing them with information about
others that they may relate to.
Works Cited
Michael, Joseph. “Why Study Children's Literature.” Why Study Children's
Literature, www.childlitassn.org/why-study-children-s-literature.
Prater, Mary A. "Learning Disabilities in Children's and Adolescent Literature:
How are Characters Portrayed?" Learning Disability Quarterly, vol. 26,

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no. 1, 2003, pp. 47. ProQuest, http://eznvcc.vccs.edu:2048/login?

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Turner, Nancy D., and Maryann Traxler. "Children's Literature for the Primary
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Inclusive Classroom: Increasing Understanding of Children with Hearing
Impairments." American Annals of the Deaf, vol. 142, no. 5, 1997, pp.
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350-5. ProQuest, http://eznvcc.vccs.edu:2048/login?url=https://search-

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doi:http://dx.doi.org.eznvcc.vccs.edu:2048/10.1353/aad.2012.0305.
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Zipes, Jack. “Chapter 1.” The Irresistible Fairy Tale : The Cultural and Social
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History of a Genre, Princeton University Press, 2012, pp. 1–9,

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