Participation= 100 Exam 1= 200 Exam 2= 200 Original Tale= 100 Presentations (100 ea.)= 200 Annotated Bibliography= 200 Total points = 1000

900-1000 = A  800-899 = B  700-799 = C   600-699 = D  0-600 = F

COURSE POLICIES

The following policies are in place to protect our community, to ensure that your experience is as positive as possible, and to facilitate the growth of a challenging and rewarding work environment.

Attendance: You are a vital member of our community, and regular attendance is essential and expected.An absence is an absence (there are no “excused” absences).You are allowed one absence with no penalty.Additional absences, late arrivals, or early departures will affect your final grade adversely (-25 points each instance at my discretion).More than three weeks of absences will be considered grounds for failure of the course.Metro has a policy of accommodating students who need to miss class because of their religious beliefs, provided such students notify their instructors of such needs within the first two weeks of the semester, so please talk with me if this applies to you.Any student eligible for reasonable accommodation of special learning needs should speak with me during the first week of class.

Assignments: Assignments are due in class, at the beginning of class, on the due date.No late work will be accepted.(Please do not email or fax assignments, either.)I will expect you to have completed the assigned readings and to be prepared to talk about them in class.I’m looking for active, thoughtful, constructive participation.Please bring your textbook to class.

Academic Responsibilities: All work must be your own, generated this semester.Plagiarism involves using all or part of a source (words or ideas) without correctly citing the source (this would include representing another person's work as your own or using a source in any way without correct documentation). You are responsible for asking me if you are not sure how to document something.Academically dishonest or plagiarized work will receive an "F" and may be grounds for further disciplinary action (see the Student Handbook for more information). 

ASSIGNMENT GUIDELINES

Annotated Bibliography and Presentation: Your major project in this course will be to select and compile an annotated list of 25 texts…then present the results to the class.You will receive more information on this shortly!

Original Tale and Presentation: Plan, write, prepare, and present an “original tale” in which you tell or retell a “family folktale,” a story from your own culture/community/background.You will turn in the original tale to me, and you should be prepared to show at least one illustration/graphic to your classmates as you tell your tale.This presentation should be approximately 5-7 minutes long, which means that your tale, typed and double-spaced, is approximately 4-5 pages in length before you added any illustrations (you may include as many illustrations as you like—youmight set up your tale as a book, for example, with less than a full page of writing to accompany illustrations as long as the text proper is 4-5 pages before you format it).

Exams: The best way to prepare for exams is to prepare for class well (see “Schedule” introduction).In addition, keep track of new definitions, terms, and concepts.Take excellent notes during class and review them before the exam.Exams may be any combination of identification, definition, short answer, and/or essay questions.

SCHEDULE

To prepare for class, please read the assigned texts carefully, more than once.The first time, you might skim quickly to get a sense of the whole, then read the material again, more slowly, to identify the text’s main issues, its structure, and any significant patterns worthy of exploration.You might also think about our class discussions and the ways in which you could draw connections to literary concepts or to other texts we’ve read. 

 

Date	Assignments Due Readings are in the Saltman anthology (except for Harry Potter). Please note: following each use of“Selections” are individual pages numbers on which a folktale, myth, story, excerpt, etc. begins. Please read each selection in its entirety.
W 5/28	Introductions
M 6/2	“Introduction” (1-9), “Stories for the Eye” (165-188), “Picture Books” (189-206)
W 6/4	“History of the Illustrated Book” (207-222), “A Chorus of Voices” (13-15), “Voices of the Nursery” (15-63)
M 6/9	“Voices of Nonsense” (64-86), “Voices of Childhood” (88-135)
W 6/11	“Other Poetry Selections” (131-161)
M 6/16	“The Oral Tradition” (225-226), “Storytelling” (656-661), “Fables” (227-244)
W 6/18	“Folktales” (245-251)  Selections: 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)
M 6/23	Exam 1: Please bring a blue book. “Myths, Legends, and Sacred Writings” (475-481) Selections: Ancient Greece: “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); 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)
W 6/25	“Epics and Romances” (562-566) Selections: Greece: “Odysseus and the Cyclops” (567); England: “Beowulf” (580), “King Arthur and His Sword” (591); Germany: “Fafnir, the Dragon” (625); France: “The Song of Roland” (635); Spain, “The Cid” (641); Finland “The Kalevala” (646); India, “Rama” (651)
M 6/30	“The Storied World” (665-674), “On Three Ways of Writing for Children” (1075-1081), “Fantasy and Science Fiction” (807-813) Selections: “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), “Island of the Blue Dolphins” (764), “How the Camel Got His Hump” (829), “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (835), “Charlotte’s Web” (880), “The Hobbit” (911), “A Wrinkle in Time” (935), “Tuck Everlasting” (940)
W 7/2	“Biography” (950-954), “Travel and History” (998-1002), “Science” (1030-1033) Selections: “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); “To Be a Slave” (1015);“A Natural History of Giraffes” (1036); “Wrapped for Eternity” (1044)
M 7/7	Annotated Bibliographies due / Presentations Bring your annotated bibliography to turn in. (See handout for description of project.)Also, bring 36 copies of your 1-page “top recommendations” (mini-annotated-bibliography) and your books to share with the class.
W 7/9	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
M 7/14	view and discuss film, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
W 7/16	Original Tales due / Presentations Bring your original tale to tell, with a formal version to turn in.(See description under “Assignments above for more information.)
M 7/21	Exam 2: Please bring a blue book and a self-addressed, stamped envelope if you want your exam back.