Nurture growth and development of the

students’ personality and social skills:

Example of book and mother goose
By: Muhamad Syamil, Nur Khairina, Afifah Husnadia
 Nurture growth and development of the
students’ personality and social skills.
• Children’s Literature is important for students because it teaches
students to understand others’ opinions and to not be selfish when
they socialize with others.
• It also will help in developing students’ personality based on the
content of the book. For example, if the book talks about family
relationship and moral values, it will develop the students’
personality positively and eventually will help them deal with any
situation in their life.
• These are important skills that adult must nurture in children.
 Example of book that can Nurture growth
and development of the students’
personality and social skills.

• Little Women is a novel by American

author Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) which
was originally published in two volumes in 1868
and 1869.
• Following the lives of the four March sisters—
Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy—the novel details their
passage from childhood to womanhood and is
loosely based on the author and her three sisters.
Scholars classify Little Women as an
autobiographical or semi-autobiographical
novel.
• Little Women differed notably from contemporary writings for
children, especially girls. The novel addressed three major
themes: "domesticity, work, and true love, all of them
interdependent and each necessary to the achievement of its
heroine's individual identity

• Little Women "has been read as a romance or as an adventure,

or both. It has been read as a family drama that proves virtue
over wealth," but also "as a means of escaping that life by
women who knew its gender constraints only too well.
 Why is this book suitable for nurturing
students’ personality and social skills?
• A sneak peak from this story, the girls decide that they will each buy
themselves a present in order to brighten their Christmas. Soon, however,
they change their minds and decide that instead of buying presents for
themselves, they will buy presents for their mother, Marmee. 
• This shows a value of family relationship between the daughters and their
mother.
• This will develop the students’ personality of being a good daughter by
appreciating their mothers by giving them presents, etc.
 Why is this book suitable for nurturing students’
personality and social skills?
• Next, this story begins with the four March girls—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—sitting in
their living room, lamenting their poverty.
• Later that day, Marmee encourages them to give away their breakfast to a poor family,
the Hummels.
• This shows an act of social skills which is empathy.
• They understand the state of being poor and decide to help.
• This act will definitely teach students to be empathetic towards others who are in need.
• This will make them be more kind towards others.