class notes

Question 1

What is poetry?

Answer 1

Concentration or crystallization of mood

Question 2

What does poetry contain?

Answer 2

Words or sounds that are evocative and imagery

Question 3

What is evocative?

Answer 3

To cause a reaction

Question 4

What is imagery?

Answer 4

The picture you get when you read

Question 5

Stanza

Answer 5

Lines ordered into a group

Question 6

Couplet

Answer 6

Two lines that rhyme and that are about the same length.

Question 7

Alliteration

Answer 7

The repetition of beginning consonant sounds

Question 8

When was the New England Primer written?

Answer 8

1690

Question 9

What was the first English translation of nursery rhymes?

Answer 9

Tales of Mother Goose in 1729

Question 10

What did John Newberry write?

Answer 10

The Little Pretty Pocket Book

Question 11

Who influenced John Newberry?

Answer 11

John Locke

Question 12

What did Locke believe?

Answer 12

In a good environment and learning to play

Question 13

What are the characteristics of nursery rhymes?

Answer 13

short - brevity

strongly marked rhythms

Question 14

How many siblings did Edward Lear have?

Answer 14

20

Question 15

What century did Lear write in?

Answer 15

19th Century

Question 16

What is the culture of children’s literature?

Answer 16

Oral and written traditions

Question 17

What are Oral Traditions?

Answer 17

fables, legends, folk tales and myths

Question 18

What are Written Traditions?

Answer 18

Medieval- for privileged males

Taught manners morals and Latin

Question 19

What are the oldest plays written?

Answer 19

Canterbury Tales

Question 20

What was the first Children’s Book?

Answer 20

Orbis Pictus

Question 21

17th Century Culture

Answer 21

Orbis Pictus
English replaces Latin
Girls are allowed to attend school
Puritans are concerned about morality and religion

Question 22

What was the first children’s book that focused on amusement rather than moral instruction?

Answer 22

John Newberry’s Little Pretty Pocket Book

Question 23

When did John Newberry write the Little Pretty Pocket Book?

Answer 23

1744

Question 24

What was called the Golden Age?

Answer 24

the 18th and 19th Centuries

Question 25

19th Century

Answer 25

Romantic Era of Adult literature European Writers Childhood is sacred

Question 26

Late 19th Century

Answer 26

Focused on social issues Compulsory Schooling becomes required Printing Advances

Question 27

What is Compulsory Schooling?

Answer 27

It meant that children were required to attend school

Question 28

20th Century

Answer 28

Transportation and Communication make the world smaller Families become mobile Rise of Comic Books

Question 29

Learning starts with?

Answer 29

Letters

Question 30

When is the Orbis Pictus Award established?

Answer 30

1989

Question 31

When did Comenius publish the Latin Grammar Book?

Answer 31

1658

Question 32

When was the Childes Guide published?

Answer 32

1718

Question 33

A little book for Children

Answer 33

1705

Question 34

This book had no spiritual tone and illustration became a primary form

Answer 34

A little book for children

Question 35

When was Dr. Seuss' ABC Book written?

Answer 35

1963

Question 36

What style of writing did Dr. Seuss use?

Answer 36

High spirited anarchy | Learning through play

Question 37

What are Dame Schools?

Answer 37

Precursor to the Home School Association | Several families would get together to educate their children

Question 38

Who started the Sunday School movement?

Answer 38

Robert Raikes in 1782

Question 39

What is the starting date for Children's Literature?

Answer 39

1744

Question 40

When was the Newberry Medal established?

Answer 40

1922

Question 41

Locke believed

Answer 41

A child is born with a blank slate | Environment is key to education

Question 42

Rousseau believed

Answer 42

Environment played a role Children are born good-keep them in a good environment and they will stay good Children should learn by experience

Question 43

When was the Elementary Education Act written?

Answer 43

1870

Question 44

What is the Elementary Education Act of 1870?

Answer 44

It made elementary education the responsibility of the government

Question 45

When is the McGuffey Reader published?

Answer 45

1836

Question 46

When was the Compulsory Education Law passed?

Answer 46

1880

Question 47

What is the Look Say Method?

Answer 47

Repeating a word enough times to memorize it It was combinations of letters Children did not learn how to sound things out Dick and Jane books

Question 48

What is whole language?

Answer 48

It tried to combat the results of Look Say Uses literature in the classroom by assimilation Locke and Rousseau

Question 49

Who introduced the idea of caricatures?

Answer 49

Edward Lear

Question 50

A book of nonsense

Answer 50

The first book in which the author also sent in the artwork | Humorous expressive drawings

Question 51

Who made the limerick popular?

Answer 51

Edward Lear

Question 52

What is a limerick?

Answer 52

Funny five-lined story with a particular rhyme scheme and rhythm

Question 53

A foot equals

Answer 53

two unaccented and one accented syllable

Question 54

Haiku

Answer 54

Japanese poetry Short small poem that conveys a mental image Usually about Nature

Question 55

Meter

Answer 55

the use of language to create a recurring pattern of emphasis

Question 56

neologisms

Answer 56

made up words

Question 57

portmanteau words

Answer 57

take 2 words and smoosh them together to make a new work | smoke/fog= smog

Question 58

what book did lear write

Answer 58

a book of nonsense

Question 59

what are the defining features of Lear's book

Answer 59

1st book in which the author also sent in the artwork