ECED 2080 Syllabus for Children's Literature

Pellissippi State Technical Community College
ECED 2230 PO1 Children’s Literature
MWF 9:40 -- 10:35; AL 225
Spring 2012
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Instructor               Catherine T. Shafer, PhD
ctshafer@pstcc.edu OR catherinejts@yahoo.com
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Course Description
Examines the criteria for selecting appropriate literature for children. Discussion topics explore age levels, values taught through literature, and artistic qualities.
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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.
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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.
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Course Schedule

Friday, January 13
Introductions/ Syllabus/ Books/ Assignments
Sign up for Reading Days
Make groups for Alphabet, Number, or Color books
Make groups for Bulletin Board Battle
What is children's literature?

Monday, January 16
No School; Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Wednesday, January 18
Introduce Bookmark Project -- bookmark activities
Value of children's literature
Meet with bulletin board groups -- they go up on Friday!

Friday, January 20
Bulletin Board Battle
ASSIGNMENT for next time: Think of your favorite books, illustrators or authors. Be prepared to share.

Monday, January 23
Our favorite AUTHORS and ILLUSTRATORS and BOOKS

Wednesday, January 25
Mother Goose stuff
Mother Goose great website
and another one ...

Friday, January 27
Children's books in children's hands

Monday, January 30
Illustration recognition activity

Wednesday, February 1
Text recognition activity.

Friday, February 3
Begin to make a character for your fairy tale (that you are writing).
Fairy tale projects activities
ASSIGNMENT for next time: Bring a copy of a fairy tale or a book or whatever ... a fairy tale in some form.

Monday, February 6
Fairy tales -- Hans Christian Anderson/ Brothers Grimm/ John Scieszka/ etc.
Look over Fairy Tale Internet Project.
Your fairy tale is due on April 29.
ASSIGNMENT for next time: Find and bring one or two children's ABC, COUNTING, or COLOR books.

Wednesday, 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 for next time: Bring a book next time that you think has OUTSTANDING illustrations!

Friday, February 10
Eric Carle's books and books illustrated with collage;
Look at other illustrators and their artistic style.
Vote for the illustration type for our classroom alphabet book. Information coming next Monday.

Monday, February 13
ABC Animal book presentation (by me -- introductory)
Sign up for animal pages to complete.

Wednesday, February 15
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 17
Friday work day -- fairy tales, group work, baby creature page, etc.
ASSIGNMENT for next time: 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 20
Chapter books and the Giver
ASSIGNMENT for next time: Bring a book about animals next time.

Wednesday, February 22
Jan Brett -- animal books;
Mitten activity by Cathy

Friday, February 24
Friday work day -- Fairy tales; group work; Pop-up books; baby creature page

Monday, February 27
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, February 29
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 2
Friday work day.

Monday, March 5 -- Friday, March 9
No school -- SPRING BREAK

Monday, March 12
Poetry in Children's Literature

Wednesday, March 14
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 16
Friday work day

Monday, March 19
Flip Books -- How to Make -- Activity

Wednesday, March 21
Caldecott Winners and Newbery winners

Friday, March 23
Friday work day

Monday, March 26
work on projects that are due ...

Wednesday, March 28
B anned Books (ALA Banned books lists)

Friday, March 30
Friday work day

Monday, April 2
Have THE GIVER read by today.
The Giver activities.

Wednesday, April 4
Dr. Seuss -- illustrator and author
Dr. Seuss activities

Friday, April 6
Friday Work day --
Chapter book presentations are due Monday!
Sea creatures due on Wednesday!

Monday, April 9
Present chapter books today

Wednesday, April 11
Sea animal ABC pages presentations. I will bind them together
and bring the book back to class.

Friday, April 13
Shel Silverstein -- author and illustrator
Shel Silverstein activities

Monday, April 16
POP UP books presented today

Wednesday, April 18
Classroom libraries/ Read-Aloud/ Storytelling

Friday, April 20
Please work on your fairy tales today and other items due -- no class.

Monday, April 23
Presentations of Group ABC, 123 or Color books
Presentation of flip books

Wednesday, April 25
Realistic Fiction/ Historical Fiction/ Science Fiction
Encouraging response

Friday, April 27
Presentations of Fairy Tales
Book lists are due TODAY

Wednesday, May 2, 10:00 -- 11:50
FINAL EXAM DAY
Presentations of Fairy Tales or other catch-up items ...
(Check college calendar for final exam time)
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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 or more on your list. Keep up with this all through the semester -- don't wait until the end and try to make a last-minute list. 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. 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 with love. 50 points, due throughout semester.

3. Group ABC or 123 or color book. If you want to, 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. 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!! We will do some of the
project in class, so watch your attendance -- you don't want to lose points by not being here when we do this stuff. 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 27 and May 2.

6. Sea Animals 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. 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 11.

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. You may certainly put pop-ups in your other assignments, but this is separate. Make sure that the pop-ups aren't all the
same (in other words, don't make 6 pictures attached to the box pop-up; that is cheating).Due April 16. 100 points.

8. Read The Giver. This is pretty obvious, yes? 100 points. Have the book read by April 2. (It's short! No big sweat.) BE in class on April 2nd or you will lose some of those 100 points.
Be nice, OK?

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. You can look up "literacy bags" online and get ideas. I will also 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. Also, if you are really wanting to do an activity about The Napping House or
The Mitten, then that is OK, you can have it. And, throughout the semester, there are certain authors/illustrators with days devoted to them (Eric Carle, Robert Sabuda, Jan Pienkowski, Dr.
Seuss, Shel Silverstein) and you can take one of them too, if that is your desire. 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 April 11.
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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

ECED 2230 Syllabus: Children's Literature