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Children ’ s Literature (H-810F). Instructor Lolly Robinson (Charlotte Robinson) Lolly_robinson@gse.harvard.edu Larsen 613. Teaching Fellow Chris Buttimer cjb636@mail.harvard.edu. Children ’ s Literature (H-810F). Thursdays February 27–April 10 5:00–8:00 p.m. Gutman 305?.
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Children’s Literature (H-810F) Instructor Lolly Robinson (Charlotte Robinson) Lolly_robinson@gse.harvard.edu Larsen 613 Teaching Fellow Chris Buttimer cjb636@mail.harvard.edu
Children’s Literature (H-810F) Thursdays February 27–April 10 5:00–8:00 p.m. Gutman 305?
Children’s Literature (H-810F) • Children’s trade books for Kindergarten through 5th Grade • Evaluate books • Find books • Learn about book creators • Use books
Lolly’s background • Education: degrees in studio art and children’s lit • Worked in publishing since 1985 • Freelance writing, reviewing, research, graphic design, illustration • Horn Book Magazine, Horn Book Guide • Taught at Lesley University • Book award committees; speak on new books, history of children’s literature, Beatrix Potter • Curate exhibits at Eric Carle Museum • Two blogs at Horn Book: Calling Caldecott and Lolly’s Classroom
Chris’s background • Current Ed.D. student (CCE) • Research focus: critical pedagogy, ethnic studies, and youth participatory action research (YPAR) • M.Ed.(L&L) from HGSE ('10); M.Ed. (teacher prep) UMass-Boston ('06) • Taught middle-school ELA in the Cambridge Public Schools for 6 years • Worked mostly in BPS the past 3-4 years • PD work around adolescent literacy • Blogger for "Lolly's Classroom"
Reading assignments • Required reading each week • Trade books • An article or other resource • Availability • On 2-hour reserve at Gutman • In JCRL (Jeanne Chall Reading Lab) • At bookstores (Coop, Amazon, etc.) • Most available in libraries
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Assignments and grading • Annotated bibliography (40%) • Picture Book paper (20%) • Group project (20%) • Attendance and participation (20%)
Personal Information Survey • We want to know who you are • Helps us create diverse book discussion groups • Questions about • Your reading habits now and as a child • Your career goals • How you might use books with children • Your proposed bibliography topic
Personal Information Survey • We want to know who you are • Helps us create diverse book discussion groups • Questions about • Your reading habits now and as a child • Your career goals • How you might use books with children • Your proposed bibliography topic
Annotated bibliography • Picture books and/or chapter books in a range of reading levels • Introductory paragraph • 20 books with short annotations • Bibliography shared with class on website • Exemplar available on website
Annotated bibliography Some topics that have worked well in the past: • Immigration to the US • Food and eating • Baseball (or other sport) • Music (or other art) • New siblings • Quilts • The ocean
Picture book paper • Three pages • Analyze and evaluate a picture book • Exemplar available on class website
Group project Two options • Sign up for a topic that explores a current issue in children’s literature • Create a literature-based mini curriculum unit
Group project • Groups of three to five students • Delivery of information • Create a HGSE wiki page • Show your page to the class
Group project Examples of existing topics • Using wordless picture books • Mischief makers • Who should tell the stories? (race and culture issues) • Gender issues • Poetry
Class and online discussions (20%) • Book discussion on Horn Book blog • “Lolly’s Classroom” will debut February 10 • Lolly will create a post for each book we are reading • Write a comment for one of the posts by 5 p.m. Wednesday • Opportunity to bring up additional topics
Book discussion during class • In-class discussion • Groups of 5–8 students • About 45 minutes, usually in second half of class • Mostly self-moderated but instructors will drop in
Assignment for first class • Complete Personal Information Survey (including bibliography topic idea) • Read two picture books (on reserve, in JCRL, at Coop)
Course website http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k100152
Horn Book • Receives 4000+ new books/year • Horn Book Magazine • 6 times a year (bimonthly) • articles about children’s books • in-depth reviews of top 10% • Horn Book Guide • 2 times a year • Short reviews of all trade books • Rated 1 to 6 • Print (6 months of books) and online (25+ years)
Horn Book • Newsletters • Notes from the Horn Book • Nonfiction Notes • Talks with Roger • Blogs • Read Roger (Editor in Chief’s blog) • Calling Caldecott (mock book award blog) • Out of the Box (app and movie reviews, miscellany) • Lolly’s Classroom (trade books and teachers) • Websites • www.hbook.com • www.hornbookguide.com
