ENG 401 Childhood's Literature
Tentative Schedule
Semester Overview
WEEK ONE: 22
Thurs: INTRODUCTIONS; Ideology and Childhood, Determine Book/Author Presentation Groups & Notebook Groups (A-E)
WEEK TWO: January 27 & 29
Tues: All of Perrault's Fairytales (except "Little Red Riding Hood")
Thurs: Perrault cont...
Online Resources (RECOMMENDED):
Brief Perrault Biography
More on Perrault
French Fairy Tale Resource Page (beware, many of the links are defunct)
WEEK THREE: February 3 & 5
Tues: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm: Kinder und Hausmärchen (see on-line reading below)
On-line READING (REQUIRED BY TUESDAY):
The Frog King or Iron Heinrich
Rapunzel
Hansel and Gretel
Rumpelstiltskin
Thurs: Group A Notebooks Due
Grimm Brothers Cont.
Online Resources (RECOMMENDED):
WEEK FOUR: February 10 & 12
Tues: "Little Red Riding Hood" Bring into class picture book version of Little Red Riding Hood. And remember to bring Perrault's Fairy Tales to class as well.
On-line READING (REQUIRED BY THURSDAY)
Little Red Riding Hood; all four tales on site: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Perrault, Italian/Austrian, and French
Thurs: Group B Notebooks Due
Julius Lester, Black Folk Tales
Online Resources (RECOMMENDED):
Mr. Lester's Homepage
Julius Lester's Badasssss Song
More on LOOK OUT, WHITEY! BLACK POWER'S GON' GET YOUR MAMA
More on Mr. Lester and his works
WEEK FIVE: February 17 & 19
Tues: Julius Lester, Black Folk Tales
Thurs: Group C Notebooks Due
Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are
Online Resources (RECOMMENDED):
BookPage Interview
The Artistry and Influence of Maurice Sendak
Sendak Exhibit at the R. Michelson Gallery
BACKSTAGE Interview with Sendak
WEEK SIX: February 24 & 26
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Tues: Ken Mochizuk, Baseball Saved Us
Thurs: Group D Notebooks Due
Sherman, Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts
Online Resources (RECOMMENDED):
Dictionary of Playground Slang (Look for the links--you'll also find Ghastly Games, Hymns and Arias, and Seedy Songs and Rotten Rhymes. Keep in mind, this is an Australian site.)
Recess Counting Games
WEEK SEVEN: March 3 & 5
Tues: Gary Soto, A Fire in My Hands & Sherman & Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts cont.
Thurs: Group E Notebooks Due
Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Online Resources (RECOMMENDED):
Gary Soto's Homepage
Poets.org Soto PageVictorian Web: Carroll
Internet School Library Media Center Lewis Carroll Page
Lewis Carroll
Carroll Photography
More Photography
WEEK EIGHT: March 10 & 12
Tues: Group A Notebooks Due
Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Thurs: MIDTERM EXAM!!!
WEEK NINE: March 17 & 19
Note: we are NOT reading Tom Sawyer this week (or any week)
Tues: Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
Thurs: Group B Notebooks Due
Carroll, Looking Glass cont. and Disney Alice in Wonderland (film)
WEEK TEN: March 24 & 26
Tues: Review Day--Return Mid-term and Discuss
Thurs: NO CLASS (I will be at a children's literature conference in Nashville. The conference is the Eighth Biennial Conference on Modern Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature, and I will be presenting a paper as part of a panel titled, "Black & White." My paper concerns the comic book author Alan Moore, and is called, “Alan Moore’s Sublimely Mundane Black Magic as a Paradigm of Certain Stuff about Audience, Fiction, & the Imagination’s Uncanny Ability to Remake the World.”
WEEK ELEVEN: March 30-April 3, 2009: SPRING BREAK!!!
WEEK TWELVE: April 7 & 9
Tuesday: Taylor, Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry
Thursday: Group C Notebooks Due
Taylor, Roll of Thunder
WEEK THIRTEEN: April 14 & 16
Tues: Pam Muñoz Ryan, Esperanza Rising
Extra (brief) reading, relating to our discussion of race relations in the U.S., and how "far we've come" since the 1930s:
"Election spurs 'hundreds' of race threats, crimes," By JESSE WASHINGTON, AP National Writer
Thurs: Groups D & E Notebooks Due
Pam Muñoz Ryan, Esperanza Rising
Online Resources (RECOMMENDED):
WEEK FOURTEEN: April 21 & 23
Tues: Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons
Thurs: Creech cont...
WEEK FIFTEEN: April 28 & 30
Tues: Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia
Thurs: Notebooks Due--ALL GROUPS (A, B, C, D, E)
Terabithia cont...
WEEK SIXTEEN: May 5 & 7
Tuesday: Rowling, Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone
Thursday: Rowling, Harry Potter cont.
WEEK SEVENTEEN: May 12
Tues: Notebooks Returned with FINAL NOTEBOOK GRADE
Final Exam Review
Thurday: NO CLASS--Semester ends May 13th
FINAL EXAM WEEK
Tuesday, May 19th, 1:00-3:00PM: FINAL EXAM
