ENGL 380

Children’s Literature

Syllabi and Assignment Descriptions

Summer II 2006 Syllabus	Guidelines for Reading Responses	Sample Responses
	Guidelines for Engagement Grades
Preparing for Class
Tickets In	Midterm Description	Honors Section Page
	Final Exam Description

Notes Issues and Concepts

GLOSSARY	Picture Book Principles
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

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		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

Homepage

My Academic Work

ENGL 381: Literature for Young Adults