English 112A (Spring 2003): Children's Literature

Children's Literature Discussion Boards

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May 9, 2003

• Children's Literature Final Examination
• English 112A: Course Syllabus for Spring 2003
• Class Materials Reading Response Guidelines

• A Single Shard Study Questions--please note that they are also on the discussion board. When you answer one, please place it under the questions as a reply....
• Research Project
  • Samples of Annotations.

• Hansel and Gretel
• Study Questions for Charlotte's Web
• Study Questions for the Circuit
• Study Questions for The Magician's Nephew
• See the Children's Literature page for additional study questions and other materials.

Reading Response Guidelines

• Guidelines for Participation and for Writing Essays
• Format for turning in papers (more general, but still correct)
• Key Points to Remember When Writing Reading Responses (RRs)
• Reading Responses
• Reading Responses
  • Simplified Close Reading Instructions
    • Close Reading: detailed, 12 steps to recovery of literary awareness (Explication de texte)--for more advanced students
  • How to Read a Book: instructions on how to read, how to mark up a text, condensed from Mortimer Adler
  • Critical Reading, a guide
  • Grammatical Errors
  • Thesis statement
  • Visual Illusions connections
  • "Metaphors We Live By" by Lakoff and Johnson
  • Understanding Children: developmental theories of childhood
• Melanie Klein: some relevant information regarding the development of a child's consciousness
• Books about family and relationships

  
  Sample Student Reading Responses (RR

  • RRs (excerpts) on various children's books
  • Charlotte's Web
  • Tuck Everlasting
  • Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
  • RR on Bridge to Terabithia--essay format
    • Bridge to Teribithia
  • RR on Walk Two Moons
  • RR on Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe

• Electronic Resources at SJSU
  • Main library sources page
• English Language and Literature Resources at SJSU
• Bloom's Taxonomy--a guide for devising questions
  • Major Categories in Bloom's Taxonomy
  • Learning Skills, Questioning techniques according to Bloom's Taxonomy
  • Really useful questions from Bloom's Taxonomy
  • Bloom's Book Review Questions
• Poems connected with Children's Literature
  • Poems for Children's Literature and Young Adult Literature
  • William Wordsworth's Spots of Time
• Lesson Plans