Why People Write Children’s Literature

and

Possible Positives to Being a Child

Hey everyone,

The following is a link to a handout I have on close reading assignments.  The handout was generated for an African American literature course, so the examples are around Richard Wright’s Black Boy, but the general methods should be applicable to your paper.

Note: there are other ways to do a close reading than the two I have presented here, but these are two very common and tried and true ways of going about a close reading.   You should definitely look at the handout, and certainly if you feel uncertain about a close reading, you should try following one of the methods on this handout.

Handout:  Close-Reading-Strategy-Clean

 

If you are in a November date, you must present on the history paper.  This information has been sent as an email and is also pasted in the schedule of assignments.

Best,

AC

History Paper

Nov 3:

 

___Jaime Chang__________

 

___Donald Ng___________________

 

___Jaclyn Torres___________________

 

___Vanessa Vasquez___________________

 

___Dominique White___________________

 

___Christopher Wong___________________

 

___Oriana Asano___________________

 

Nov 5

 

 

__Maggie Wu____________

 

__Jasmine Lee___________

 

__Sherry Zeng___________

 

__Artem Kovalchuk____________________

 

__William Lee____________________

 

__Jackson Marienfeld____________________

CHOOSE A BOOK PROJECT

Dec 3rd

___James Mohan___________________

 

___Raymond Urrutia___________________

 

___Charles Parietti___________________

 

___Jason Perez___________________

 

___Serena Sooklall___________________

 

___Annalea Shallcross___________________

 

 

 

Dec 11

 

Presentation Day

 

______Kimberly Ayala_____

 

______Joshua Ross________

 

______Chiffon Cummings________________

 

______Mason Chen________________

 

______Natasia Chancy________________

 

______Corey Bauer________________

 

 

 

Dec 15

 

______Christopher Digrazia________________

 

______Nicole Dillo________________

 

______Laura Frost________________

 

______Stephanie Hughes________________

 

______Kristen Jimenez________________

 

______Oishi Gomes________________

 

 

 

We just got a taste of discussion in today, but hopefully on Wednesday, we can finally plunge into that discussion.

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To that end, please keep in mind the two questions I posed in class:

1) What do children read? (posed on the screen before class)

2) What would it really mean to think of childish as  not a denigrating term? [along with that: is embracing childishness as not denigrating -perhaps even a generative quality- what Beverly Lyon Clark actually trying to do?

 

–Also all the links at least up September 24th, should be working now.   If you ever encounter a link that goes bad on me, you should be able to google the title and author and find a pdf.

This information will also be available at the bottom of the schedule of assignments.

 

GROUP A

 

remember the readings for Monday are the “preface” and chapter one to Kiddie Lit AND the NYT article “Little People”.  The links should work on the schedule of assignments/readings page.