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Summary and Objective
Students will understand that there are similiarities and differences between children's books of the 1800s and today's books by comparing and contrasting using the primer source and current books and completing a Venn Diagram.
Teaching Plan
Step 1.
First have the students look at the "New England Primer."
Step 2.
Then have the students look at several different current children's alphabet books.
Step 3.
After the students have had time to view the items, they can verbally discuss some ways they are alike and how they are different.
Step 4.
Then break out into small groups so students can complete a Venn Diagram on large chart paper.
Step 5.
Bring class together and combine all ideas onto a class Venn Diagram.
Step 6.
When discussing their ideas, make sure they understand the different styles of art work. The 1800 "New England Primer" was an illustrated alphabet book along with informative pictures and stories with a heavy dose of moralism. It also showed the preoccupation of death impressed on young readers. The books and art work were serious in nature and illustrated in black and white. Each drawing had a person present and some also contained violence. Today's primer alphabet books are for the most part, colorful and are based on happiness, funny stories, themes, such as the ocean or insects, and some have rhymes to them. Today's books are not preoccupied by death and don't usually teach morales.
Step 7.
Finally students will draw and color pictures,side by side on paper, representing a letter found in a presnt day alphabet primer book and a letter from the primer books of the 1800s.
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