*readings are subject to change.*

Sep 3

• First Class—Introduction

WEEK 1:  WHAT IS A CHILD?  WHAT IS CHILDREN’S LITERATURE?

WHOLE CLASS POST

Sep 8

• Lyon-Clark, Beverly, preface and chapter 1 to Kiddie Lit The Cultural Construction of Children’s Literature in America
• Download reading by clicking the following link:  Clark_Kiddie Lit_Preface and Intro
• Joan Accocella, Little People. When Did We Start Treating Children Like Children? New Yorker, 2003. 138 -142

Sep 10

• Jacqueline Rose, The Case of Peter Pan or The Impossibility of Children’s Fiction
• Download reading by clicking the following link: Rose-The-Case-against-Peter-Pan
• Perry Nodelman and Mevis Reimer, How to Read Children’s Literature.In: The Pleasures of Children’s Literature,14-29

Further readings:

• Philippe Ariès, Centuries of Childhood.32-49.
• Peter Hunt (ed.), Understanding Children’s Literature. Introduction. 1-14

 

WEEK 2:  DECLARATIONS OF INDEPENDENCE: ENLIGHTENMENT & MATURITY

Post Group A

Sep 15

• Excerpts of James Abbot’s Rollo Stories, Rollo at Play “In The Woods” p 8-32)  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-1838

• Abbott, “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

Sep 17

• Excerpt Goodrich’s Peter Parley Tales pp7-48 (the first 11 chapters)   https://archive.org/details/talesofpeterparl1847good

Further Readings:

• Ben. Franklin, Proposal Relating to the Education of Pennsylvania Youth (1749)
• http://www.archives.upenn.edu/primdocs/1749proposals.html

• Cotton Mather “The Education of Children” (c1700)
• http://www.spurgeon.org/~phil/mather/edkids.htm

• Mather “Some Special Points, Relating to the Education of my Children” (1706)
• http://college.cengage.com/history/primary_sources/us/cotton_mather.htm

• Excerpt Rousseau, “Book 1” The Social Contract (1762)
• http://www.constitution.org/jjr/socon.htm

• “Preface” and “Book 1” of Rousseau’s Emile or On Education (1762)
• http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5427/pg5427.html

• The Declaration of Independence (1776)
• http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html

• Immanuel Kant’s “What is Enlightenment?” (1784)
• http://www.columbia.edu/acis/ets/CCREAD/etscc/kant.html
• http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/kant-whatis.asp
• https://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/documents/What_is_Enlightenment.pdf
• https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/ethics/kant/enlightenment.htm

 

WEEK 3: AMERICAN ANXIETIES:  WANDERING GIRLS

Post Group B

Sept 22

• Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Little Annie’s Ramble”
• “Little Red Riding Hood (Versions),” In: The Classic Fairy Tales.  3-24 (Grimms Version) 
• Zohar Shavit, “The Concept of Childhood and Children’s Folktales:  The Test Case – Little Red Riding Hood,” In The Classic Fairy Tales. 317-332.

Sept 24

• NO CLASS

 [First Paper Due Saturday September 27th by 5pm]

 

WEEK 4: AMERICAN ANXIETIES: SLAVERY AND CHILD

Post Group C

Sep 29

• 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
• Oct 1

• • “The Planters Son” and “The Plantation” (not the “part second”)  in The Rose Bud Wreath

 

[POST CIVIL WAR AND THE GOLDEN AGE OF CHILDREN’S LITERATURE]

WEEK 5:  ADVENTURES IN DOMESTIC NONSENSE

Post Group A

Oct 6

• Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) Part 1 (or first half)

Oct 8

•  “New Wave Nonsense and the Tradition of Classic Nonsense”  in Julie Cross’s Humor in Contemporary Junior Literature : New Wave Nonsense chapter

WEEK 6:  ADVENTURES IN DOMESTIC NONSENSE (continued)

Post Group B

Oct 13

• NO CLASS

Oct 15

• Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) Part 1

 

WEEK 7: REAL HOUSE LIVES: REALISM, SENTIMENTALISM, AND DOMESTICITY

Post Group C

Oct. 20

• Alice in Wonderland

Oct 22

• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (part1)

 

 

WEEK 8: BLACKNESS AND THE ADVENTURE or BAD BOYS

Post Group A

Oct 27

• Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) part 1

Oct 29

• Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)part 2
• Excerpts of Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huck Finn
  (first and last chapter)

Further Readings:

• Excerpts from Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Was Huck Black?

• Excerpt from Leslie Fiedler “Huck and Jim on Raft” 270-90.
• Gabrielle Owen, “Queer Theory Wrestles the ‘Real’ Child: Impossibility, Identity and Language in Jacqueline Rose’s The Case of Peter Pan.”  Link is here:  Queer Theory Wrestles the Real Child Impossibility and Jacqueline Rose by Gabrielle Owens

• Excerpts Frederick Douglass My Bondage and My Freedom & The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (excerpts on boy)

 [Second Paper Due:  (If you are presenting)  Sunday, November 2 by 10:00 am or (if you are NOT presenting) Monday before class] 

 

WEEK 9: PROJECT WEEK:  Please Remember that Presentation days are non negotiable.

Nov 3:

• Project Day

___Jaime Chang__________

___Donald Ng___________________

___Jaclyn Torres___________________

___Vanessa Vasquez___________________

___Dominique White___________________

___Christopher Wong___________________

___Oriana Asano___________________

Nov 5

• Project Day

__Maggie Wu____________

__Jasmine Lee___________

__Sherry Zeng___________

__Artem Kovalchuk____________________

__William Lee____________________

__Jackson Marienfeld____________________

 

**Important:  Thursday, Nov 6^th is the Last Day to Drop for a “W”**

 

[THE CENTURY OF THE CHILD AND THE GOLDEN AGE (continued)]

WEEK 10:  BEYOND THE RAINBOW: REALISM, RACE, and RATIONALISM

Post Group B

Nov 10

• Baum The Wonderful Wizard of OZ (1900) part 1

• Ursula K. LeGuin, “Why Are Americans Afraid of Dragons?”

Nov 12

• Baum The Wonderful Wizard of OZ (1900) part 2
• Clips of Wicked

Further Reading:

• Excerpts from Toni Morrison Playing in the Dark: “Romancing the Shadow”

WEEK 11: RACIAL INNOCENCE

Post Group C

Nov 17

• Excerpt from Robin Bernstein’s Racial Innocence
• Kemble’s A Coon Alphabet

Nov 19

Post Group A

• Helen Bannerman, The Story of Little Black Sambo
• Sanjay Sirca, “Little Brown Sanjay and Little Black Sambo: Childhood Reading and Adult Re-Reading; Colonial Text and Post-Colonial Reception.”  In: The Lion and the Unicorn 28 (2004) 131-156. Link here [small_Little_Brown_Sanjay_and_Little_Black_Sambo]

 

WEEK 12:  A BROWNIES’ REPLY

Post Group B

Nov 24

• Arna Bontempts and Langston, Hughes, The Paste Board Bandit (1935) [emailed]

Nov 26

• Excerpts from The Brownies Book  (1921-2)
• Langston Hughes, The Dream-Keeper and Other Poems (1932)

Further Readings

• Excerpt Fred Moten SAQ Fanon, Nonsense,and Pidgen
• Excerpts from Toni Morrison Playing in the Dark (“Preface” and maybe “Black Matters” or “Romancing the Shadow”)
• Katherine Capshaw Smith Harlem Renaissance Children’s Literature  
• Dianne Johnson Feeling’s work on The Brownies Book

 

WEEK 13: THE CREATURES OF COLONIALISM

Post Group C

Dec 1

• Margret and H.A. Rey, Ceciely G. and the Nine Monkies (1939), Curious George (1941), and Curious George Takes a Job (1947),
• June Cummins, “The Resisting Monkey: ‘Curious George,’ Slave Captivity Narratives, and the Postcolonial Condition,” ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 28.1 (Jan. 1997)

Further Reading

• Ann Mulloy Ashmore,“From Elizabite to Spotty: The Reys, Race, and Consciousness-Raising,” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 35.4 (2010) [W].

Dec 3

• Presentation Day

___James Mohan___________________

___Raymond Urrutia___________________

___Charles Parietti___________________

___Jason Perez___________________

___Serena Sooklall___________________

___Annalea Shallcross___________________

 

[ Third Paper Due Saturday, December 6 th by 9:00am]

 

WEEK 14: THE CREATURES OF COLONIALISM (continued)

Dec 8

• Maurice Sendak, Where The Wild Things Are (1963)

 

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________________

 

Completed Choose-A-Book Project are Due at the End of Reading Period, which is Wed. Dec 17th at 9:30 am.

*assignments are subject to change.*

POST GROUP ASSIGNMENTS

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

 

GROUP A