Assignment:
Respond to each item. Each response should be concise and between 2 to 3 paragraphs in length. Use MS Word to write your responses, and submit your answers to all three questions in one Word document. Copy and paste each question within the document, so that your Instructor can see which question that you are responding to.
Throughout this course, you have been learning that each genre of literature has the potential to make a powerful impact on readers. Explain the intricate and significant relationship between contemporary realistic fiction and the children and adolescents who read it.
Imagine that you are a librarian who has been asked to compile a list of contemporary realistic fiction for children and adolescents. What considerations related to quality would be most important to you? To what issues would you need to be sensitive?
Consider what you have learned about the genres of contemporary realistic fiction and historical fiction. In what ways are they similar? In what ways are they different? Explain at least one similarity and one difference. Then, based on these differences, what are the most significant benefits to a child reading each of these genres?