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    EDUCATION
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    Children's Literature
    Instructor: M.S. O'Connell
    Intersess ion (May 9 - June
    17)
    Monday, Thursday 8:30 - 12:20 PDC 1402
    Summer Session (July
    14 -
    August 12)
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    Tuesday, Friday 8:30 - 12:20 PDC 1+02
    TEXTS: Egoff, Sheila The Republic of Childhood (A Critical Guide
    to Canadian Children's Literature in English) Second
    Edition, Toronto: Oxford University Press,
    1975
    Lukens, Rebecca J. A Critical Handbook of Children's
    Literature, Agincourt: Gage Educational Pub. Ltd.,
    1976
    EMPHASIS:
    Whereas discussions and presentations will refer to the
    broad field of children's literature, the emphasis in this
    section of the course will be on materials relevant to
    Kindergarten and Lower Elementary school teachers.
    OBJECTIVES:
    A. That students become familiar with the scope of children's
    literature through a survey of:
    1.
    the fiction, fantasy, poetry, lore,...
    2. the resources and criticism in the field
    3.
    award-winning books; evaluative criteria
    B. That students have in-depth knowledge of one genre
    (fantasy, poetry,...) within the field of children's
    literature.
    C. That students know ways of integrating children's
    literature with an elementary school program.
    REQUIREMENTS:
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    1. Write a paper on one genre within the field of children's
    literature. Your paper should be one that you could share
    with a teacher who has expressed a wish to know more
    about the selected genre. (i.e. Fantasy for pre-teen
    children; Canadian fiction for older children; Indian
    legends;....) ?
    List references used in order of their
    value to you.
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    2. Plan and present with a group of four (approx.) a
    workshop that illustrates a way or ways of either
    integrating children's literature with a class project
    or generating a class project as an outcome of reading
    a book or several books.
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    3. Outline (on no more than two pages) the books you
    would use and the points you would make if you were
    invited to give a "book talk" to the parents of
    children in a selected age range.
    TOPICS:
    In addition to the literary elements discussed by
    R.
    Lukens in Chapters Two through Eight, and the
    Canadian children's literature (in EnglisWTd
    i sc ussed
    by
    S.
    Egoff, the following topics will be considered:
    I. Children's Literature as a way of knowing.
    2.
    Books of yesterday - an historical perspective.
    3.
    Censorship and children's books.
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    Storytelling.
    5.
    Creative writing.
    6.
    Films and filmstrips as resources in Children's Literature.
    7.
    Children's books from the perspectives of a publisher,
    an author and an illustrator.
    8.
    Other topics requested by students.

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