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Welcome to EDUC 378!

After finding a seat please do the following:

Write your name on a name tag. Materials are on the front table.

Make a name card by folding a piece of cardstock in half the hotdog way and writing your name in large, legible letters.

On the back of your name card write your favorite book from childhood.

Introduce yourself to the classmates seated to your right and left.

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Agenda

Welcome Introductions/Icebreaker Review of Syllabus Break What’s in a name?

For Next Time

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Spring 2012

Instructor: Dr. Ives

EDUC 378Survey of Children’s

and Young Adult Literature

Section 1

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Introduce Yourself

Briefly, tell us: your name, your major, why you’re taking the class, one thing you hope to come away with from this

class, and what your favorite book was as a child.

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Icebreaker

People Bingo:

1.Meet your classmates by finding someone different to answer each question about children’s literature.

2.The first person to have all the boxes filled hollers, “Bingo.”

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Syllabus

Course Purpose and Objectives

Survey of Children’s and Young Adult Literature (CYAL)• Read CYAL literature, secondary sources, and textbook

Fulfills pedagogy requirement for education minor• Using CYAL to teach ELA and other subject matter in

school settings

Highly participatory in nature Deals with issues in CYAL that may be sensitive

and/or controversial

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Syllabus

Expectations and Assignments Attendance, preparation, participation (10%) Reading Quizzes (15%) Personalized Database (15%) Read Aloud Facilitation (10%) Portfolio of Responses to Literature (15%) Web-based Learning Experience (10pts) Poetry and Storytelling Performances (10%) Literature Focus Unit (15pts)

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Syllabus

Required Text and Books

Literature for Children: A Short Introduction, 7th Edition

The Lorax by Dr. Seuss Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry Just a Dream by Chris Van Allsburg Black and White by David Macaulay Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman Hitler Youth by Susan Campbell Bartoletti Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Feed by M.T. Anderson

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Syllabus

Literature Circle Texts In class you will sign up to read one set, of two, of the books

listed below: Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr

and American Born Chinese by Gene Yang Birch Bark House Louise Erdrich and The Absolutely True

Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan and The Skirt by

Gary Soto Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis and After

Tupac and D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson Al Capone Does My Shirts Gennifer Choldenko and Rules

by Cynthia Lord Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman and Dear Mr.

Henshaw by Beverly Cleary

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BREAK

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What’s in a name? Literature, including children’s and young adult

literature, conveys life’s most personal feelings and experiences. Often it acts as window, mirror, and/or door for readers.

Consider the following texts and the experiences they are each trying to describe:

Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes House on Mango Street, My Name by Sandra

Cisneros

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Quickwrite: What’s in a name? Write about your name following Esperanza’s

example.

Address any of the following in your writing: Who gave you your name? What language does

it come from? What does your name originally mean? Are you named after someone?

How well does your name “fit” you? If you were going to rename yourself what name would you choose? Could you find different names for different parts of your personality?

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Discussion

For you are these stories examples of mirrors, windows, or doors?

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For Next Time

Buy the texts. Read Literature for Children, Chapter 1. Take the Reading Quiz (on Spark) before class. Complete any Spark readings. Begin your Personalized Database. Read an award-winning CYAL text. Add it to

your database and bring it with you to class.