Please read the instructions carefully and answer the following questions. No Plagiarism. There is two parts to this assignment. Thank you!
First, read the background information given , then watch the videos, then pick one of the following questions, and then answer with minimum of 200 words.
- Background Information
- Tabula Rasa
- Isaac Watt’s “Divine Songs for Children”
- Watch:First 20 minutes of “The Romantics: Nature”
- Part A:
- Reading links for assignment:
- Tabula https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabula_rasa
- Issac Watt’s : http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13439
- Romantics Nature Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liVQ21KZfOI
Pick one of the following questions to answer:
- Specifically, how are Watts’ hymns different than the writings of Janeway and Bunyan from the previous module?
- In Watts’ hymns, how are children encouraged to learn from their own experiences and first hand observations?
- Janeway and Bunyan focused on death as a lesson for children; what does Watts emphasize in his hymns? (Consider the subject matter of the songs that have almost no religious language.)
- How does Tabula Rasa differ from the Puritan idea of Original Sin? Provide at least one example/quotation from the readings that shows a belief in one or the other.
After answering one question (200 words)
Questions is in the attached files.
- Part B: Reading links:
- Blake Reading: https://www.britishlibrary.cn/en/articles/william-blake-and-18th-century-childrens-literature/
- Songs of innocence and experience by Williams Blake
- Please answer one of the following questions after you have read the reading.
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- What are some specific differences between Blake’s “Experience” poems and the “Innocence” poems? (Sometimes they even have the same titles.)
- What lesson(s) might Blake be trying to teach the adults reading these poems? The children?
- To what extent is “reality” hidden in Blake’s work? Focus on examining a specific poem.
- How does Blake’s writing challenge the previous understanding(s) of childhood we see in the previous modules?
- How does Blakes tone change between the “Innocence” poems and the “Experience” poems?
- The lack of moral resolution in the poems probably startled Blake’s readers; compared to the previous modules, what in the poems startled/surprised/bothered you?
After answering one question (200 words),
