Chapter 6- Traditional Literature

Teaching traditional literature is exciting, it gives me knowledge. Most of the time on things I have read I learn things that the author wants to share with the reader about a time in the past. This is one of the genre I enjoy most. I like books that I can dissect and figure out why it was written in the first place like nursery rhymes such as "Ring around the rosy". I was told that it was written in a time of a plague and the people walked around with posy's in their pocket to fight off it and many people died; I forgot where it happened I think London but the rhyme reflects a time period in the past. And I have to add "Nacho and Lolita"" written by Pam Munoz Ryan, she writes about folk tales with a description of a early California town and a bird that could easily have existed and includes a love story with a happy ending.

So far this book "Living Literature" has made me understand and given me different views to literature.