Dr. Chris McGee

Longwood University

ENGL 380: Children’s Literature

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e-mail: mcgeecw@longwood.edu
Office: Grainger 206 Office Hours: MW 3-4, TR 10-11 Spring 2007 ENGL 380 – Section 02, 03, 04, Online	Contact Information 434-395-2163 Longwood Univ. 201 High Street Dept. of English and Modern Languages Farmville, VA 23909

Syllabi and Assignment Descriptions

Sample Syllabus	Description of Participation Grades	Guidelines for Reading Responses
Preparing for Class	Midterm Description	Sample Responses
Description of Tickets In

Notes Issues and Concepts

GLOSSARY	Picture Book Principles	Honors Section Page
Conservative Progressive Information	Close and Resisting Reading Questions	Some Major Binaries
Typical Case Prototype Notes	Interpellation Notes	Notes on the Carnivalesque
Adult / Child Centered Definitions	Readerly Writerly Notes	Notes on Metafiction

Required and Optional Reading

Playground Poetry	Peter Pan Chapter One
Children’s Poetry	Winnie the Pooh Chap. One
Fairy Tales
Perry Nodelman Handout
Louis Althusser: “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses”

Background Information and Help

List of Critical Works in Children’s Literature	Brief History of Fairy Tales	Notes on Analysis
List of Children’s Literature Resources		My Teaching Philosophy
		How to Calculate Grades

Resources and Links

Longwood’s Children’s Literature Webpage	Oxford English Dictionary Online	Dr. Brock-Servais’s Webpage
Longwood Library	Sample Citation Guide	Dr. Jennie Miskec’s Homepage
Longwood Homepage	American Library Association	Dr. Joseph Thomas’s Webpage
	Project Gutenberg	Dr. Sue Larkin’s Webpage
Internet Movie Database	My Academic Work	Dr. Michael Martin’s Homepage

Notes and Discussions from Previous Semesters

Notes on the Uncanny	My Harry Potter Paper	Past Syllabi
Notes on Mysteries	Fraud Harry
Lemony Snicket Responses	Classic / Hardboiled Chart