SCHEDULE OF WEEKLY ACTIVITIES
RE 5140-101:
Advanced Study of Children’s Literature
January 12 Topic:
Course Introduction/Review of Syllabus and Requirements
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Explanation of
Course Projects
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Class
introductions
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Personal reading
history: your own early experience with children's literature, books you
remember, people who surrounded early literacy experiences, memories
(positive and negative) of early encounters with children’s books, the
context or location, connections between literature and becoming a teacher,
high and low points of reading children’s literature-both as an adult and a
child.
Assignments:
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A Celebration of
Literature and Response
Ch. 1&2
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Ida B…and Her
Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World
January 19 Topic:
Literature, Teaching, and Reader Response to Literature
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Discussion of
Ida B/Reader Response Theory
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Enriching your
Literature Selection Resources: ALA Notable Trade Books 2005
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Genre: All
literary Genres (picture storybooks; informational; biography; historical
fiction; folk/fairy tales; realistic fiction; fantasy; realistic fiction;
multicultural)
Assignments:
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A Celebration of
Literature and Response
Ch. 3 The Art of the Picture Book
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Chapter 14 (pp.
291-299)
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Select several
quality picture books to read for next week (ALA Notable or Caldecott Medal
or Honor books); bring the books to class
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Refer to Considerations & Perspectives for Analyzing a
Picture Book (Syllabus)
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Reading Teacher-Talking
Back and Taking Over: Young Children’s Expressive Engagement During
Storybook Read-Alouds (Sipe, 2002)
January 26 Topic:
The Art of the Picture Book/Expressive Arts as Response
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Picture Book
Discussion
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Considerations &
Perspectives for Analyzing a Picture Book
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Children’s
Engagement with Storybook Read Alouds
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Visit to the IMC
Assignments:
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Black and White
by David Macaulay (Read This Book First!!!!!!!!!)
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“It’s Not All
Black and White”: Postmodern Picture Books and New Literacies (Anstey, 2002)
located at
http://www.reading.org/downloads/publications/journals/JAAL-45-6-Anstey.pdf
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February 2 Topic:
Postmodern Picture Books
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Black and White
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Exploring
Postmodern Picture Books and Criteria of Postmodern Picture Books: Whaz
up with our books? Changing picture book codes and teaching implications
(Goldstone, 2002)
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Bad Day at
Riverbend
and Wait! No Paint
Assignments:
February 9 Topic:
Interpreting Visual Texts in Postmodern Picturebooks
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Children Reading
Pictures: Interpreting Visual Texts
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Voices in the Park
by Anthony Browne
Assignments:
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A Celebration of
Literature and Response
Ch. 4 pp. 81-92; Ch.9 pp. 211-221; Ch. 8 pp. 190-194
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The Three Pigs
and Young Children’s Visual Meaning-Making During Readalouds of Picture
Storybooks (Sipe & Brightman, 2004)
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Cinderella and Her
Sisters: Variants and Versions
(Sloan &Vardell,
2004) from Happily Ever After: Sharing Folk Literature with
Elementary and Middle School Students (Young, 2004).
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Read Multiple
Cinderella Tales of your choice with at least one multicultural version;
refer to p.194 (Hancock Text); bring to class
February 16 Topic:
Exploring Traditional Literature and Variants
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Children’s
Response to Traditional Literature: The Three Pigs
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Traditional
Literature
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Cinderella and Her
Sisters
Assignments:
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A Celebration of
Literature and Response
Ch. 4 Modern Fantasy pp. 92-107; Ch. 9 Talking About Books pp. 221-230; Ch.
10 Literature Response Journals pp. 243-253
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The
Tale of Despereaux being the story of a mouse, a princess, some soup, and a
spool of thread
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Group 1 turns in reflective journals next class.
February 23 Topic:
Modern Fantasy:
The Tale
of Despereaux
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Literature
Conversations with Intermediate and Middle Levels
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Literature
Response Journals
Assignments:
March 2 Topic:
Multicultural Poetry
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Locomotion
and
Technically, It’s Not My Fault
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Responding to
poetry
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Celebrating Dr.
Seuss
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Color Poetry
Assignments:
Reading:
A
Celebration of Literature and Response
Ch. 6 Realistic
Fiction (pp. 129-142)
Chapter 10 Literature
Response Journals: The Character Journal (pp. 253-258);
Voices from the
Middle: Comprehending Multiple Texts: A Theme Approach Incorporating the Best
of Children’s Literature (2003, Kettel and Douglas)
Ch. 14
Interdisciplinary and Intertextual Connections- Review Theme Exploration
Assignment
Chasing Vermeer
March 9: NO
CLASS-ASU SPRING BREAK
March 16 Topic:
Realistic Fiction
Assignments:
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Readings:
A
Celebration of Literature and Response
Ch. 6 Historical Fiction pp. 142-153;
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Ch. 8
Multicultural Literature pp. 181- 191
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Ch. 10 Literature
Response Journals: Teacher Constructed Prompts (pp. 233-243)
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Esperanza Rising
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Tar Beach
March 23 Topic:
Historical Fiction
Assignments:
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A Celebration of
Literature and Response
Ch. 7 Biography and Information Books;
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Ch. 13 Response to
Nonfiction pp. 303-328
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Read Picture Book
Biography of your choice and information book of your choice- please refer
to list of noteworthy authors and books
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Reference Orbis
Pictus Award and Robert F. Sibert Award: pp. 415-417
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Bring books to
class!
March 30: NO
CLASS-SPRING BREAK-PUBLIC SCHOOLS
April 6 Topic:
Nonfiction
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Picture Book
Biography
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Information Books
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How do we respond?
Assignments:
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A Celebration of
Literature and Response
Ch. 11 Literature as a Model for Writing
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Thematic
Presentations
April 13 Topic:
Theme Exploration Presentations
Literature as a
Springboard/Model for Writing
Assignments:
April 20 Topic:
Theme Explorations Presentations
Assignments:
April 27 Topic:
International Literature and
The Thief Lord