eng/295 Week 5 Moral and Ethical Development and Issues in Children’s Literature

Moral and Ethical Development and Issues in Children’s Literature

In Week 5, you will more deeply examine the value of children's literature as a tool of moral and ethical development, as well as the opportunity to study issues in children's literature. There are several substantial issues in children's literature that greatly affect the teaching and exposure of children's literature. It is important to understand these issues when looking at the value of teaching the genre of children's literature.

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Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper that includes 3 of the following topics: 

A description of the value of teaching children's literature as a tool of moral and ethical development in children using examples from the course readings that may include its effect on 3 of the following:

· Imagination

· Language development

· Socialization (prejudice and tolerance)

· Gender roles

An analysis any two of the following issues in children's literature using specific examples from the course

· Gender roles

· Violence

· Sex and sexual orientation

· Authorial intent

· Race

· Language/Lexile® scales

Format your assignment according to appropriate course-level APA guidelines.

Review the CWE information about plagiarism and visit YouTube for more on avoiding plagiarism.  You must cite all sources for every assignment in this and every course.  Failure to cite sources may result in a Zero for the assignment, class failure and even may result in expulsion.  Cite all pictures uses as well.

Sources to use

1. Bringing Sexual Orientation into the Children's and Young Adult Literature Classrooms" by Patti Capel Swartz

2. Gender Role Stereotyping in Children's Literature: An Update" by Carok M. Kortenhaus and Jack Demarest

3. Straight Talk on Race" by Mitali Perkins

4. Charlotte Huck’s Children’s Literature, Ch. 9: Nonfiction

5. Charlotte Huck’s Children’s Literature, Ch. 7: Contemporary Realistic Fiction

6. 2 -any non-fiction children's book (not included in attachment, any choice will be okay for this source only)