For a PDF of the schedule, click the following link: Schedule of Assignments 8_29_15
| Date | Reading | Posts | Assignments | ||
| Monday, Aug. 31 | First Class—Introduction to Binaries & Child Messiness | ||||
| Wednesday, Sept. 2 | Klassen, Jonathan. How to Read Children’s Literature. Perry Nodelman and Mevis ReimerIn: The Pleasures of Children’s Literature,14-29 | Post a Nursery Rhyme or Fable | |||
| Monday, Sept 7 | Labor Day | How to Read Children’s Literature Post | |||
| Wednesday Sept 9 | Jacqueline Rose, The Case of Peter Pan or The Impossibility of Children’s Fiction link: Rose-The-Case-against-Peter-Pan | Choose Groups | |||
| Monday, Sept. 14 | NO CLASSES | Post an example of the child as site of adult desire | |||
| Wednesday, Sept 16 (last day to drop without a W) | Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) | A: Binary | |||
| Monday, Sept. 21 | Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) | B: Mess | |||
| Wednesday, Sept 23 | NO CLASS | ||||
| Monday, Sept. 28 | Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) | Work Day | |||
| Wednesday, Sept. 30 | All of the “Lydia Maria Child and the Development of Children’s Literature” chapter of the Boston Literary Historyhttp://www.bostonliteraryhistory.com/chapter-4 | ||||
| Monday, Oct 5 | Excerpts of James Abbot’s Rollo Stories, Rollo at Play “In The Woods” p 8-32) and “Trouble on the Mountain” (163-91)Please note, the link will take you to a general page, and from there you must click “original text” in order for the actual electronically scanned book to come up. http://www.bostonliteraryhistory.com/chapter-4/jacob-abbott-rollo-play-or-safe-amusements-boston-thomas-h-webb-co-1838Abbott,”The Truant” 49-52 and “The Truant Boy’s End” 172-6 http://www.bostonliteraryhistory.com/chapter-4/messrs-abbott-mount-vernon-reader-course-reading-lessons-new-york-collins-keese-co-1841 | C: Binary | Project Check In: Send Link to your group’s site. | ||
| Wednesday, Oct 7 | Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Gentle Boy”Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Little Annie’s Ramble” | D: Mess | Work Day | ||
| Monday, Oct 12 | No Class | Project Check-In: Historical Text Check In | |||
| Wednesday, October 14 | Excerpts from Uncle Tom’s Cabin (chapter XIV “Evangeline”, chapter XX Topsy, and Chapter XXIII “Henrique)The Antislavery Alphabet“The Little Slave’s Complaint”, “The Little Dead Slave”, “The Little Colored Boy,” “The Negro’s Petition,” “Letter from an Infant Slave,” “Little White Lamb, and Little Black Lamb,” and “The Fugitive” ALL in The Star of Freedom | Alice Expose | |||
| Monday, Oct 19 | “The Planters Son” and “The Plantation” (not the “part second”) in The Rose Bud Wreath | Early American Post | |||
| Wednesday, Oct 21 | Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) | D: Binary | |||
| Monday, Oct 26 | NO CLASS (make up for the Alice Field Trip) -you should still post though if you’re in Group B. | ||||
| Wednesday, Oct 28 | Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) | C: Mess | Work Day | ||
| Monday, Nov 2 | Group Work | ||||
| Wednesday, Nov 4 | Group Work | ||||
| Monday, Nov 9(last day to drop with a grade of W) | Kemble’s A Coon Alphabet | Work Day | |||
| Wednesday, Nov 11 | Helen Bannerman, The Story of Little Black Sambo“Raggedy Ann Learns a Lesson” and “Raggedy Ann and the Washing” Raggedy Ann Storieshttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/18190/18190-h/18190-h.htm | ||||
| Monday, Nov 16 | Excerpts from The Brownies Book (1921-2)Langston Hughes, The Dream-Keeper and Other Poems (1932) | ||||
| Wednesday, Nov 18 | Arna Bontempts and Langston, Hughes, The Paste Board Bandit (1935) [emailed] | ||||
| Monday, Nov 23 | Margret and H.A. Rey, Cecily G. and the Nine Monkeys (1939), Curious George (1941), and Curious George Takes a Job (1947)
Suggested Reading (not required): |
B: Binary | |||
| Wednesday, Nov 25 | The Story of Babar: The Little Elephant | ||||
| Monday, Nov 30 | Maurice Sendak, Where The Wild Things Are (1963) | A:Mess | Partial Work Day | ||
| Wednesday, Dec 2 | Harry Potter: The Prisoner of Azkaban
In class: #IfHogwartswasblackKey & Peele Sketch |
Project Check In: What else needs to be Done list. | |||
| Monday, Dec 7 | Harry Potter: The Prisoner of Azkaban
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“Racial Innocence” Assignment | |||
| Wednesday, Dec 9 | Project Day | Work Day
All blog assignments due by Saturday December 12th at noon. |
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| Monday, Dec 14 | Project Day Last Day of Classes | Informal Presentation
Professor Survey and Baruch Surveys Due as Extra Credit All Extra Credit Posts due by Monday, December 14th at 12:30 |
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| Tuesday, Dec 15 | Reading Day | ||||
| Wednesday, Dec 16 | Beginning of Exams | Projects Due by Wednesday night (aka no later than 7:30 am on Thursday, December 17th)
Group/Self Evaluations Due Friday December 18th at 8pm |
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| Wednesday, Dec 23 | End of Semester | ||||
