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What Literature Does for Young Children

 

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English 271
Spring 2012

 

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.