Wk |
Date |
Homework |
Class topics/Key words |
1 |
9/10 |
Introduction |
Lecture: What is childhood? What are children? What is children's literature? |
2 |
9/17 |
Traditional Fantasy
Read the Grimm Brothers and Perrault sections from the folktales packet: pp 2-12. Know the differences between the different versions of the same stories. |
Lecture: folk literature, the oral tradition in children's literature. Red Riding Hood and Cinderella. |
3 |
9/24 |
Read The Three Little Pigs from the folktales packet: pp 28-29. Read some random Rhymes from The Real Mother Goose (1916). We'll read some in class.
Prepare a fairy tale to share
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Lecture: Mother Goose, nursery rhymes, and English folk stories.
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4 |
10/1 |
Tales from the Arabian Nights
Andrew Lang (1898): Read: Preface; The Arabian Nights; The Story of the Merchant and the Genius
Optional: Sir Francis Richard Burton 1855 version
Sign up for your fairy tale |
Lecture: The Arabian Nights and the exotic in children’s literature (Orientalism). |
5 |
10/8 |
Read the Hans Christian Andersen section from the folktales packet: pp 13-26.
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Lecture: Anderson and literary fairy tales |
6 |
10/15 |
Prepare your presentations |
Lecture: Archetypes
Fairy Tale Presentations in small groups |
7 |
10/22 |
Alice in Wonderland Chs 1-4
Alice poem parodies with originals |
Lecture: Lewis Carroll and Alice |
8 |
10/29 |
Alice in Wonderland Chs 5-8
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Lecture: From Alice to Dorothy, the first golden age of children’s literature |
9 |
11/5 |
Alice in Wonderland Chs 9-12
Alice book response due |
Lecture: Nonsense |
10 |
11/12 |
Alice Paper Due.
Pippi Longstocking first half |
Lecture: Humor & Breaking social constraints |
11 |
11/19 |
Pippi Longstocking second half
Pippi book response due
Sign up for your group's classic book |
Lecture: Didacticism, condescension, Rainbow Fish
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12 |
11/26 |
Charlotte’s Web first half |
Lecture: Characterization: flat, round, dynamic, static, and foil characters |
13 |
12/3 |
Charlotte’s Web second half
Charlotte's Web book response due |
Lecture: Verisimilitude & the willing suspension of disbelief |
14 |
12/10 |
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe First half |
Lecture: Fantasy and Epic Fantasy |
15 |
12/17 |
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Second half | LLW book response due |
Lecture: Children’s Literature past and present |
16 |
12/24 |
Christmas Eve Holiday |
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17 |
12/31 |
Read your group book |
Review the semester | Work on your presentation |
18 |
1/7 |
Prepare your presentations |
Book Presentations: Why is it a classic? |
| Prepare for next semester. Read children's picture books. Make an annotated bibliography. |
