Course Calendar & Presentations

Schedule Online Presentations Questions for Reading & Writing Term Paper List

How To Use The Course Calendar
Using all of this information requires a bit of organization, so follow these general instructions. For each week, begin by reading assigned work from the hard text. There will be rhetoric and source material from englit.org. The works themselves, listed by title and author, are primarily on the internet or handed out in class, based on student suggestions. You are then to view the Web pages for the authors and topics for that week, listed as a link on the English Internet Resource List section of the Web site (not all are covered). That means all you have to do is click on the colored (usually blue) label of the name or address of the site. Following that, read the online presentation of the format strategy for the week (Org & Outline, Quoting Your Sources, How To Take A Test, etc.). You are also required to read the thematic presentation for that week in Online Presentations (Character, Theme, Irony, etc.). Finally, read Questions for Reading and Writing. This will allow you to follow the schedule and be topical in the classroom. Read the directions. Assignments and due dates for papers and tests are announced in class. Most of this syllabus is self-explanatory. The following is a plan for the semester.

Online Anthologies of Children’s Literature

• Aesop’s Fables
• Hans Christian Andersen Anthology
• Crane, et al. Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes
• Brothers Grimm Anthology
• Joseph Jacobs Anthology
• Pyle. Mother’s Nursery Tales
• Charles Perrault Anthology

Tentative Schedule

Week 1

Introduction
ASSIGNMENT:

• Term Paper Idea due
• Writing About Literature,
• Poetry
• Roots of Children’s Literature
• What I Expect on Out of Class Papers
• MLA Formatting

• Crane, et al. Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes

Week 2

ASSIGNMENT: Animals

• Formalist Criticism
• Annotated Works Cited

• Aesop’s Fables
• Disney. Goofy: "Motor Mania"
• Disney. Goofy: "Father's Weekend"
• Disney. Goofy: "Tomorrow We Diet"
• Disney. Goofy: "Father's Day Off"
• Disney. Goofy: "Two Weeks Vacation"
• Disney. Goofy: "No Smoking"

Week 3

ASSIGNMENT: Same Old Story, Different Skew

• Secondary Sources

• Grimms, “The Blue Light.”
• Andersen, “The Tinderbox.”
• Grimms, “The Goose-Girl.”
• Pyle, “The Goose-Girl.”
• Jacobs, “The Story of the Three Little Pigs.”
• Pyle, “The Three Little Pigs.”

Week 4

ASSIGNMENT: The Heroic (Male) Child:

• Gender Criticism
• Irony
• Supporting the Point: Analysis of Criticism/Evaluating Evidence
• Metaphor, Symbolism and Allegory

• Grimms, “Hansel and Gretel.”
• Jacobs, “Jack and the Beanstalk.”
• Andersen, “The Ugly Duckling.”

Week 5

ASSIGNMENT: Bad, Bad Man

• Psychoanalytical Criticism

• Grimms, “Rumpelstiltskin.”
• Perrault, “Bluebeard.”

Week 6

ASSIGNMENT: Girls, Girls, Girls:

Making Her Way
• Miyazaki. Kiki's Delivery Service

Week 7

ASSIGNMENT: Girls, Girls, Girls:

Girls in Peril
• Grimms, “Little Red Cap.”
• Perrault, “Little Red Riding Hood.”
• Perrault, “The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood.”
• Grimms, “Little Brier-Rose.”

Week 8

ASSIGNMENT: Girls, Girls, Girls:

Rags to Riches
• New Historical, Marxist, and Mythological Criticisms

• Perrault, “Cinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper"
• Jacobs. “Cap O’ Rushes.”
• Grimms, “Cinderella.”

Week 9

ASSIGNMENT: Girls, Girls, Girls:

Girls in Danger:
• Reader Response Criticism

• Andersen. “The Little Match-Seller.”
• Jacobs, “Binnorie.”
• Garcia/Traditional, "Oh, the Wind and Rain"
  • Lyrics
  • Video

Week 10

ASSIGNMENT:Girls, Girls, Girls:

Damsels Taking Charge:
• Andersen, “The Little Mermaid.”
• Jacobs, “Molly Whuppie.”

Week 11

ASSIGNMENT:

• Peer Editing paper 2

Week 12

ASSIGNMENT: Usin' Yer Noggin'

• Watterson. "Calvin and Hobbs"
• Milne. Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day

Week 13

ASSIGNMENT:

Week 14

ASSIGNMENT:

• PRESENTATIONS
• Outline for Term Paper due
• Note Cards for Term Paper due

Week 15

Term Paper due/Final Test Prep

• PRESENTATIONS

Week 16

Finals Week: Final Exam

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Questions for Reading and Writing

Something to keep in mind in your essays for this class:

Be able to answer these four questions somewhere in the context of your essay. Please don't merely list the answers... make them part of your general discussion of the work.

1. What is the message? Clearly state it and support your response from the text itself. There can be more than one answer.
2. Who is the speaker of the message? Be as specific as you can. This is NOT necessarily the author. Authors will create characters or "voices" to tell a story or give a viewpoint. In lyrics, this often makes singer appear to be a different person than they really are or hold different values than they really do. In drama, that is all you get... all characters, no narrator.
3. Who is the audience of the message? There can be more than one, often linked to the message...or a single message may have different audiences wits the audience of the message? There can be more than one, often linked to the message...or a single message may have different audiences with different expected results. Again, be specific and use text for support.
4. What methods does author use? Be specific, using terms from ENGL 101 -- irony, symbolism, theme, conflict -- and new terms from this course.
   • In poetry, the use of meter and rhyme and condensation of ideas into brief images is common.
   • In drama, the use of character, dialogue and setting are often important.
   • In literature, all of these aspects may be factors.

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© T. T. Eiland, December 5, 2005
Last modified: Aug 27, 2019