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Note: During the first 7 weeks of class, please feel free to bring any
picture books that you would like to us to discuss as a class for whatever
reason.
Week 1: (1/15-17)
1/16: Intro to Interpretation and the Syllabus
1/18: Bang, Picture This, pg. 1-91
How
to Read a Picture Book
Week 2 (1/22-24):
Bring a quality picture book to class each day.
Choose partners.
Week 3 (1/29-1/31):
Bring a quality picture book to class.
Continue picture book discussions.
Week 4 (2/5-7):
Postmodern picture books--Bring a picture book that has been
written in the past five years.
Week 5 (2/12-14):
Bring the books you're working on for
your partner picture book analyses.
Read:
Seto, Thelma. "Multiculturalism is not Halloween"
Horn Book Magazine March-April 1995 71.2 p169-175.
To get this article, go to Milner's website, click on Find a Known
Article, and plug the information from the citation into the form. The
title of the journal is Horn Book magazine, use the date from the pull
down menus-1995, Mar. Volume is 71, Number is 2, page numbers go from
169 to 175. If you enter the items correctly, a new screen will tell you
that it is available full text. Click on that and you can read it.
Bring in a multicultural picture book that
you consider well-done or not well-done so that we can discuss why.
2/14: Partner
Picture
Book Analyses Due (or on the 27th)
Week 6 (2/19-21):
Alphabet Books and Poetry Books
Bring an alphabet book and a book of
poetry.
What is Language For?
2/21:
Turn
in Learning Logs.
Week 7 (2/26-2/28):
Stellaluna
A
Model of Subject Development in Picture Books
Week 8 (3/4-3/6)
Stellaluna
Week 9 (3/18-20):
Babe
Notes on Babe
Week 10 (3/25-27):
Read:
Charlotte's Web
Week 11 (4/1-3):
Read:
Nodelman, "Text as Teacher: The Beginning of Charlotte's
Web"
If this link does not work for you, try this
process:
Go the English department website:
http://www.english.ilstu.edu/
In the light colored box on the left side, there is a heading that says
useful links. Click on Digital Reserve Readings. (You may have to scroll
down within the box.) A page about Digital
Reserve Readings should come up. In the middle of the page, there's a
link. Click on that. Click on coats. Click on ENG 271, and then click on
nodelman_coats.pdf.
If there are other problems, they may be
addressed on the page on Digital Reserve
Readings, so go back and read that.
Week 12 (4/8-10):
Read: Little Red Riding Hood
section, "The Struggle for Meaning," "The Misuses of Enchantment:
Controversies on the Significance of Fairy Tales"
***NOTE: For each of the tales we read, bring in a
picture book version of the tale on the day we are discussing the tale. It
can be a traditional version, a multicultural version, or a
"fractured" version.
Week 13 (4/15-17)
Read: Sleeping Beauty Section, Beastly Bride(groom)
section, "The Fairy Tale Hero: The Image of Man in the Fairy Tale," "Go!
Be a Beast: Beauty and the Beast"
Week 14 (4/22-24):
Read: The Nineteenth Century section
Group projects
4/24: Learning Logs Due
Fairy
Tale Values
Week 15 (4/29-5/1)
Group projects
Take Home
Final
Exam, to be turned in electronically
Section 01 (9:35) DUE: Thursday, May 8th by 12 noon
Section 02 (12:35) DUE: Thursday, May 8th by 5:10
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