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Note: All readings listed must be completed by the time you
come to class on the Monday of the week for which they are scheduled
unless otherwise specified.
Learning to Think
Analytically about Children's Literature
Week 1: (1/18)
Intro to the syllabus, the learning log, and
each other (complete with Angry Birds)
Week 2: (1/23-25)
Read: Sipe, Lawrence R. "The Art of the Picturebook." Handbook of
Research on Children's and Young Adult Literature. Shelby A. Wolf,
Karen Coats, Patricia Enciso, and Christine A. Jenkins, Eds. New York:
Routledge, 2011: 238-255. Print.
How
to Read a Picture Book
Bring a picturebook to class with you.
The
Literature Itself
Part 1: Folk and 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 3: (1/29-2/1)
Monday:
Read
Folk & Fairy Tales: Luthi, "The Fairy-tale Hero: The
Image of Man in the Fairy Tale," and Bettelheim, "The Struggle for Meaning"
(page 315-334)
Reader: Bailey Wade
Wednesday:
Read Little Red Riding Hood Section (pages 27-62)
Reader: Jessica Kendall
Week 4: (2/6-8)
Read Cinderella Section (pages 94-139), and Karen Rowe, "Feminism
and Fairy Tales" (pages 342-358)
Monday Reader: Rebecca Hacker
Wednesday Reader: Keri Wilson
Week 5: (2/13-15)
Read the Brain Over Brawn section (pages 204-219)
Monday Readers: Sara Phillips, Gracie Aavang
Watch "Kirikou and the Sorceress"
Learning Logs due for advisory grade
Week 6: (2/20-22)
Monday: Read Growing Up (is Hard to Do) section (pages 139-161)
Reader: Amanda Zook
Wednesday: Read Betsy Hearne, "Disney Revisited, or Jiminy Crickett,
It's Musty Down Here!" and James Poniewozik "The End of Fairy Tales? How
Shrek and Friends have Changed Children's Stories"
Reader: Jessica Hennelly
Partner Picture Book Analyses Due
Part 2:
Icons and Ideology
Week 7: (2/27-29)
Read Winnie-the-Pooh.
Monday reader: Rachel Roggensack
Wednesday reader: A.J. Jacob
Week 8: (3/5-7)
Read The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Curious George, and The
Cat in the Hat.
Monday reader: Jill Jaskoski
Wednesday reader: Stacy Coglianese
SPRING BREAK
Week 9: (3/19) NO CLASS ON
WEDNESDAY--work on group projects
Read Ramona the Pest.
Monday reader: Julie Conrad
Part 3: The Purveyors
Week 10:
(3/26-28)
Group project presentations
Monday reader: Katie Meyers
Wednesday reader: Kasha Henricks
Week 11:
(4/2-4)
Monday: Group Project Presentation
Monday Reader: Emily Foust
Wednesday: A Poetry Tasting
Wednesday reader: Stefanie Youngberg
Part 4: New Faces, New Directions
Week 12: (4/9-11)
Read Ruby Lu, Brave and True and
Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School & Other Scary Things
Monday reader: Catherine Cavoto
Wednesday reader: Taylor Garrison
Linking
Literature and Development
Week 13: (4/16-18)
Read "What the Dormouse Said"
http://www.navsaria.com/navsaria.com/Professional_files/dormouse.pdf
Preschool
Monday reader: Carli Dunn
Wednesday reader: Becca Sheade
Wednesday: Learning Logs Due
Week 14: (4/23-25)
K-1st grade
Monday reader: John Schuller
Wednesday reader: Nicole Cihlar
Week 15: (4/30-5/2)
2nd and 3rd grade
Monday reader: Mary Keenan
Wednesday reader: Sarah Morgan
Take Home
Final
Exam, to be turned in electronically
DUE: When the final exam schedule has been set, the
final will be due no later than the end of the exam period for this
class time.
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