Final

 1-Arguments against children’s literature are very unrealistic let’s be honest. When You hear something like “we can’t afford thirty or fort copies of something we don’t know.” Makes you as a district look like you don’t care. Brown Girl Dreaming is a book that children in our district are able to relate to and just because you don’t does mean it gives you the right to not allow it to be in the curriculum that we are teaching. I know many of my students have actually had personal connections to the book and that why I think it’s important to include this book in our school district. The second argument “No one around here knows anything about it. If it was really worth knowing we’d have heard about it.” with this argument I question you. Have you chosen not to know anything about it? The fact of this one is that the child that is learning this has had experience with it and heard about it. I think this is such an easy way to avoid teaching topics that our students may know more about. We need to understand that our students can teach us stuff and it's ok. With both of these arguments, I think we have been able to see that these are reasons we are holding our students back. We need to step out and start tackling hard topics through literacy. I am not asking only about the behave of me and what I want I am asking about the behave of the students I work with.

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Over this course I have been able to understand the concept of what children and young adult literature really is. When I started, I thought it was just booking that kids and young adults read that a teacher makes them. I was remembering all the books I had to read and how much I didn’t really care for them. Now that I have completed this course, I have realized that is way more than just a book a teacher makes you read in class. The short definition that I thought of was it’s a book that teaches age-appropriate lessons about topics and english standards. Then when I broke it down into children and adult literature, I was able to understand it even more. For children literature it’s all about having a book that draws their interest but also covers important lessons that the child may encounter. A book that gives the child a sense of home and lesson is a book that will move mountains for the child. At this age they are really needing books that talk about feelings, events like going to the dentist, how to be nice and what to do when your mad, and etc. These are all books that a child is able to pick up and see how the characters delt with the experience and be able to relax more and be able to be more confident. When I thought about it more Dr. Sues books show a great example of how things may not go your way. Then you have the Pigeon book that talks about going to school. These are all book that talk about age-appropriate lessons that a child may go through as a child.

Next, I looked into the young adult side of it, and I thought it was very interesting how many people don’t get why teachers are upset with having their books on the banned list. This was a section where young adults have the ability to read and learn about topics that have happen in history or that are currently happening. There is lots of different lessons and concepts that have been chosen to read but then get banned because of the content. The content yes is not very pretty and magical but that cause it would not be age appropriate. The books like The Girl Who Drank from the Moon and The Graveyard are perfect examples. These are book that have content that is bit more on the dark side but have amazing moral stories behind them. There is so much that a young adult can learn from both of the books. The issue is that we have to get over the content is too much. Literature is all about teaching what actually happening and at some point, the young adults have to be ready for real characters and not fairies and bears. The lessons are going to more centered around what they are facing in their life like sexuality, race, family and world problems. A young adult goes through a lot of things in life, and I look at it as these books are the steps to help them be able to understand the content that is happening in their life. Overall, it doesn’t matter what age or what lesson children and young adult literature is all about teaching a lesson through a book even if the lesson may be seen as hard to talk about. It’s the most important learning time for everyone included.