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Assignments Due
Readings are in the Riverside Anthology (except for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland). Individual pages numbers after a literary title (folktale, myth, etc.) indicate the beginning of selection; please read each selection in its entirety.
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W 1/19
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Overview, Introductions
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M 1/24
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“Introduction” (1-9), “Stories for the Eye” (165-188)
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W1/26
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“Picture Books” (189-206)
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M 1/31
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“History of the Illustrated Book” (207-222)
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W 2/2
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“A Chorus of Voices” (13-14), “Voices of the Nursery” (15-63)
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M 2/7
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“Voices of Nonsense” (64-86), “Voices of Childhood” (88-135)
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W 2/9
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“Other Poetry Selections” (131-161)
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M 2/14
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“The Oral Tradition” (225-226), “Storytelling” (656-661), “Fables” (227-244)
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W 2/16
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“Folktales” (245-251)
German: “Hansel and Gretel” (255), “The Fisherman and His Wife” (258); French: “Little Red Riding Hood” (275), “Cinderella and the Glass Slipper” (277); English: “Jack and the Beanstalk” (297); Irish: “The Bee, the Harp, the Mouse, and the Bum-Clock” (311); Spanish: “The Flea” (331); Italian, “The Silver Nose” (337); Russian, “Vasilissa the Fair” (340); Jewish, “The Golem” (368); Japanese, “The Tongue-Cut Sparrow” (394); American, “Paul Bunyan” (450)
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M 2/21
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Guest Speaker: Anita Jepson-Gilbert, author of Maria and the Stars of Nazca
“Myths, Legends, and Sacred Writings” (475-481)
Ancient Greek: “Demeter” (482), “Cupid and Psyche” (484), “Atlanta’s Race” (492); Norse: “The Magic Apples” (504), “Thor Gains His Hammer” (515); Native American: “Determination of the Seasons” (523), “How Gooskap Found the Summer” (523);
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W 2/23
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Hawaiian: “How Kana Brought Back the Sun and Moon and Stars” (545); Judeo-Christian: “The Fall of Man” (547), “St. George and the Dragon” (553); Hindu: “Manuy and Shatarupa” (554); Buddhist: “The Buddha” (557)
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M 2/28
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Midterm Exam
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W 3/2
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“Epics and Romances” (562-566)
Greek: “Odysseus and the Cyclops” (567); English: “Beowulf” (580), “King Arthur and His Sword” (591); German: “Fafnir, the Dragon” (625); French: “The Song of Roland” (635); Spanish, “The Cid” (641); Finnish, “The Kalevala” (646); Indian, “Rama” (651)
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M 3/7
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view film: Shrek
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W 3/9
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view and discuss film: Shrek
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M 3/14
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Film Review 1 due
“The Storied World” (665-674), “Fantasy and Science Fiction” (807-813)
“Little House in the Big Woods” (675), “From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler” (705), “Anastasia Krupnik” (729), “Carrie’s War” (738), “The Planet of Junior Brown” (748)
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W 3/16
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“On Three Ways of Writing for Children” (1075-1081), “Island of the Blue Dolphins” (764), “How the Camel Got His Hump” (829), “Charlotte’s Web” (880), “The Hobbit” (911), “A Wrinkle in Time” (935), “Tuck Everlasting” (940)
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M 3/21
W 3/23
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Spring Break
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M 3/28
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
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W 3/30
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
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M 4/4
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Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
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W 4/6
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Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
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M 4/11
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view film: Alice in Wonderland
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W 4/13
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view and discuss film: Alice in Wonderland
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M 4/18
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Film Review 2 due
“Biography” (950-954), “Travel and History” (998-1002), “Science” (1030-1033)
“Nothing Is Impossible: The Story of Beatrix Potter” (955); “Anne Frank: The Diary of A Young Girl” (959); “Letters to Horseface, Being the Story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Journey to Italy…” (964); “Journey toward Freedom: The Story of Sojourner Truth” (978); “A Natural History of Giraffes” (1036); “Wrapped for Eternity” (1044)
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W 4/20
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Please bring two copies of your bibliography for a workshop.
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M 4/25
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Annotated Bibliographies due / Presentations
Bring your formal annotated bibliography to turn in (see handout for description of project). If presenting, bring 36 copies of your 1-page “top recommendations” (mini-annotated-bibliography) and your selected books to share with the class.
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W 4/27
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Presentations
Bring 36 copies of your 1-page “top recommendations” (mini-annotated-bibliography) and your selected books to share with the class.
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M 5/2
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Presentations
Bring 36 copies of your 1-page “top recommendations” (mini-annotated-bibliography) and your selected books to share with the class.
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W 5/4
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Presentations
Bring 36 copies of your 1-page “top recommendations” (mini-annotated-bibliography) and your selected books to share with the class.
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TBA: Final Exam Week
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Final Exam: Please bring a blue book and a manuscript-sized, self-addressed, stamped envelope if you would like your exam back.
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