| Pellissippi State Technical Community College ECED 2230 Children’s Literature 11700 PO1 96M MWF 9:40 -- 10:35; AL 126 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Instructor Catherine T. Shafer, PhD ctshafer@pstcc.edu OR catherinejts@yahoo.com _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Course Description Examines the criteria for selecting appropriate literature for children. Discussion topics explore age levels, values taught through literature, and artistic qualities. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Policies Attendance Policy: PSTCC expects students to attend all scheduled instructional activities. At a minimum, students in all courses must be present for at least 75% of their scheduled class and laboratory meetings in order to receive credit for the course. I take attendance every day. Academic Dishonesty: Plagiarism, cheating, and other forms of academic dishonesty are prohibited. A student guilty of academic misconduct, either directly or indirectly through participation or assistance, is immediately responsible to the instructor of the class. In addition to other possible disciplinary sanctions that may be imposed through the regular PSTCC procedures as a result of academic misconduct, the instructor has the authority to assign an F for the exercise, examination, or course. Accommodations for disabilities: Students who need accommodations because of a disability, have emergency medical information to share, or need special arrangements in case the building must be evacuated should inform the instructor immediately, privately after class or in her/his office. Students must present a current accommodation plan from a staff member in Services for Students with Disabilities (SSWD) in order to receive accommodations in this course. SSWD may be contacted by going to Goins 134 or 126 or by phone: 694-6751 (Voice/TTY) or 539-7153. More information is available at: www.pstcc.edu/departments/swd/ Extended College Closure: In case of an extended college closure (one week or more), please contact me by email (see above). I will also attempt to contact you. I expect you to be in touch with me while the college is closed. The classes that I can conduct online will be covered in the days that the college is closed. Student presentations will be resumed when we return to campus. If it appears that we will not return to campus before the semester ends, I will contact you with further instructions. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ NAEYC Standards Standard 1: Promoting Child Development and Learning 1a. Know and understand children’s characteristics and needs. 1b. Know and understand the multiple influences on development and learning. Standard 2: Building Family and Community Relationships 2c. Involve families and communities in their children’s development and learning. Standard 4: Teaching and Learning Substandard 4b: Use developmentally effective approaches Know, understand, and use effective approaches, strategies, and tools for early education. Standard 5: Becoming a professional 5d. Integrate knowledgeable, reflective, and critical perspectives on early education. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Course Schedule Friday, January 15 Introductions/ Syllabus/ Books/ Assignments/ Sign up for Reading Days/ Make groups for Alphabet, Number, or Color books ASSIGNMENT: Think of your favorite books, illustrators or authors. Be prepared to show the class a visual. We will make a poster for our wall, yes we will. Monday, January 18 No School; Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Wednesday, January 20 Our Favorite Authors and Illustrators and Books -- make a poster -- bring pictures or information from home. Introduce Bookmark Project -- bookmark activities; I am bringing my bookmarks next time. Your turn next!! Friday, January 22 Mother Goose stuff Mother Goose great website Cathy's bookmarks Monday, January 25 Children's books in children's hands Wednesday, January 27 Illustration recognition activity Friday, January 29 Text recognition activity. Monday, February 1 Begin to make a character for your fairy tale (that you are writing). Fairy tale projects activities ASSIGNMENT: Bring a copy of a fairy tale or a book or whatever ... a fairy tale in some form. Wednesday, February 3 Fairy tales -- Hans Christian Anderson/ Brothers Grimm/ John Scieszka/ etc. Look over Fairy Tale Internet Project. Your finished project is due on April 30. Friday, February 5 First Friday Work day -- look at Fairy Tales, group work, etc. ASSIGNMENT: Find and bring one or two children's ABC, COUNTING, or COLOR books next time. Monday, February 8 ABC Books/ Counting Books/ Color Identification books Meet with your group today and decide which one you will do. Time is at a premium -- make plans and start your books TODAY. ASSIGNMENT: Bring a book next time that you think has OUTSTANDING illustrations! Wednesday, February 10 Eric Carle's books and books illustrated with collage; Look at other illustrators and their artistic style. Vote for the iillustration type for our mythological creature baby page. Information coming next Monday. Friday, February 12 Friday Work Day Monday, February 15 Mythological baby presentations. Sign up for baby mythological creature page to complete. Wednesday, February 17 Robert Sabuda/ Jan Pienkowski -- Pop Up Books Start working on your personal popups in class today. Robert Sabuda's web site offers a lot of directions on how to make pop-ups. Check out the "Explore Pop-Ups" Link. Friday, February 19 Friday work day -- fairy tales, group work, baby creature page, etc. ASSIGNMENT: Bring a chapter book for young children or young adults next time. Make sure that this is a book you are willing to read this semester. You will also be reading "The Giver." Two chapter books -- WAHOO!! Monday, February 22 Chapter books and the Giver ASSIGNMENT: Bring a book about animals next time. Wednesday, February 24 Jan Brett -- animal books; Mitten activity by Cathy Friday, February 26 Friday work day -- Fairy tales; group work; Pop-up books; baby creature page Monday, March 1 Sequence Books/ Napping House/ If You Give a Mouse a Cookie/ etc. There was an Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly puppet. Napping House activity by Cathy Wednesday, March 3 Classic Children's Authors and Illustrators: Beatrix Potter/ A.A. Milne/ Lewis Carroll/ Margaret Wise Brown/ E.B. White/ Robert Louis Stevenson/ Rudyard Kipling/ J.M. Barrie/ L. Frank Baum/ Kenneth Grahame/ Mark Twain/ J.R.R. Tolkien/ C.S. Lewis/ Clement Moore/ Brothers Grimm/ Hans Christian Andersen/ Louisa May Alcott/ Randolph Caldecott/ Carlo Collodi/ Frances Hodgson Burnett/ Hugh Lofting/ Margery Williams/ Hardie Gramatky/ Dr. Seuss/ Virginia Lee Burton/ Ludwig Bemelmans/ Robert McCloskey/ Joe Chandler Harris/ H.A. Rey/ Richard Scarry/ Antoine de Saint Exupery/ Don Freeman... Friday, March 5 Friday work day. Monday, March 8 -- Friday, March 12 No school -- SPRING BREAK Monday, March 15 Poetry in Children's Literature Wednesday, March 17 Modern classic authors: Audrey Wood, Stan and Jan Berenstain, Bill Martin, Joanna Cole, Tomie DePaola, Robert McCloskey, James Marshall, Charlotte Zolotow, J.K. Rowling/ Chris Van Allsburg/ Judy Blume/ Mitsumasa Anno/ Beverly Cleary/ Lois Lowry/ Madeleine L'Engle/ Maurice Sendak/ Jan Brett/ Eric Carle/ Roald Dahl/ Shel Silverstein/ Mem Fox/ Jean Craighead George/ Laura Numeroff/ Ezra Jack Keats/ Katherine Paterson/ Dav Pilkey/ R,L. Stine/ Rosemary Wells/ Mo Willems/ P.D. Eastman/ Louis Sachar/ Mike Thaler/ Robert Sabuda/ Leo Lionni Friday, March 19 Friday work day Monday, March 22 Flip Books -- How to Make -- Activity Wednesday, March 24 Caldecott Winners and Newbery winners Friday, March 26 Friday work day Monday, March 29 Banned Books (ALA Banned books lists) Wednesday, March 31 Multiculturalism and Diversity in Children's Literature Reading at Different Ages Friday, April 2 Friday work day Monday, April 5 Have THE GIVER read by today. The Giver activities. Wednesday, April 7 Dr. Seuss -- illustrator and author Dr. Seuss activities Friday, April 9 Final Friday Work day -- Chapter book presentations are due Monday! Mythological creature babies due on Wednesday! Monday, April 12 Present chapter books today Wednesday, April 14 Mythological creature baby page presentations. I will bind them together and bring the book back to class. Friday, April 16 Shel Silverstein -- author and illustrator Shel Silverstein activities Monday, April 19 POP UP books presented today Wednesday, April 21 Classroom libraries/ Read-Aloud/ Storytelling Friday, April 23 Presentations of Group ABC, 123 or Color books Presentation of flip books Monday, April 26 Realistic Fiction/ Historical Fiction/ Science Fiction Encouraging response Wednesday, April 28 Conclusions -- what are our final thoughts? Friday, April 30 Presentations of Fairy Tales Book lists are due TODAY Wednesday, May 5, 10:00 -- 11:50 FINAL EXAM DAY Presentations of Fairy Tales or other catch-up items ... (Check college calendar for final exam time) _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ |
| ASSIGNMENTS!!! 1. Keep a running record of all the books you read or have read to you this semester (a la kids books). When a book is read in class to you, you can add that to your list, but make sure that you add the author, illustrator, and an annotation as well. (Annotation: a short note about it so that you can remember it and so that I can understand the book) If you go to the library or McKay or the book store, and you read several books before you make your selection, you can count those too! I think that at the end of the semester you should have nearly one hundred books on your list. Make a copy for me to keep. 100 points, due at end of course. 2. Bookmarks. Each of you should bring in bookmarks for everyone to color or write on or other such things. Take your bookmarks and flood a library or a bookstore or a McKay). Just insert a bookmark in every book you pick up. My son calls this "This is to change the status quo -- to bring the books out of the norm -- rock and roll -- shazaam! -- people never really expect to see a book mark in a book, especially one homemade (well, classmade) with love. 50 points, due throughout semester. 3. Group ABC or 123 or color book. If you are really confident, you may do this alone. It is OK with me. ANYWAY, with your group, decide which you want to do, and then do it. Bind your book in your own imaginative way. This is a PROCESS, remember? JUST DO IT and you get 100 points, kazowie. Make a copy for me to keep, and these will be presented at the end of the course. Make as many copies as you wish -- copies for your group and teacher at least, and others for the rest of the class if you desire. Due April 23. 5. Fairy Tale project. OK OK I agree that this one will take time. But you can get 200 points! Follow the directions on the Fairy Tale project link I really hope that you will put a lot of time and thought into these tales. They are a part of human history, and sharing of fairy tales is almost a generational rite of passage. THINK OF THE IMPLICATIONS!! Have a text only copy for all of the students in the class.I hope that I see some FABULOUS fairy tale presentations. Presented April 30 and May 5. 6. Mythological Creature Babies page. One of my favorite past-times is thinking up stuff like this to ply your eager minds with. Another is trying to speak proper English, but it hasn't taken yet. ANYWAY, you are decorating your page (or pages) as you want to. I absolutely refuse to give you points if you copy pictures from the internet and glue them on. Or if you color a coloring book page, or rip a page from a book. This must be your own work, your own art. I personally think that they will be just amazing. That is my plan. And my hope. YOU GET 150 POINTS for this!! Completed page due on April 14. 7. Pop-Up Book. Yeah, I know I'm fantastic to let you do this and get points for it. These are so amazing, I can just feel the love that you have for this project. I hope that you decorate your pop-up book beautifully and flamboyantly!! You should have at least 6 pop-ups in your book. Story is inconsequential (i.e., make pop-ups of whatever you want, within reason, keeping in mind these books are intended for innocent minds.) Bind as desired. Due April 19. 100 points. 8. Read The Giver. This is pretty obvious, yes? 100 points. Have the book read by April 5. (It's short! No big sweat.) 9. Make a flip book. This is not a group activity. You will learn how to make these in class, and then make your own, and present it on April 23. 50 points. 10. You must read to the class at least 5 times throughout the semester NOT COUNTING any special assignment reading (such as flip book, pop-up book, fairy tale book, ABC etc book). Sign up on the first day of class. It behooves you to keep these dates, too, so that you can have a day off possibly near the end of the semester! DON'T ask me if you can do an alternate activity. You are going to be TEACHERS. You have to know how to speak in front of a large group. 20 points each time you read, or 100 possible points. 11. Present to the class one (favorite) book with an activity. I will give you examples with activities from The Napping House and The Mitten. You do this too. These will be presented on Fridays, which are work days, throughout the semester. You can sign up first day of class or anytime thereafter. If someone else has already presented a book, you may not present the same one, so sign up early! First come, first presented. 100 points, oh my. 12. Read another book with chapters (for young adults or preteens) and report to the class. Have a visual to show the class that summarizes the book and your impressions of the book. 100 points, due ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GRADING 810--900 points = A 720--809 points = B 630--719 points = C 540--629 points = D Below 540 = F 91–100 = O - Outstanding 81–90 = E - Exceeds Expectations 71--80 = A - Acceptable 61 -- 70 = P - Poor 51 -- 60 = D - Dreadful below 50 = T - Troll |
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