|
Week
|
Date
|
Topic
|
Readings
for Week
|
Engagements
|
| 1 |
1/13 |
Course Introduction |
Navigation of SSF - it will take us a week or two to get all of
the kinks worked out. Readings start next week. Use this week
to maneuver the course site and e-mail me with any problems, concerns,
and questions. All
postings will be due by 6 p.m. Friday this week only!! |
Navigate
SSF course site.
Write
a brief introduction about yourself. Be sure to include two truths
and a lie. The others in the class will try to guess the lie
in their responses to your biography
Reading history
timeline as illustrated through children’s and adult literature
Review
syllabus and post any questions to SSF
Web quest due next week
|
| 2 |
1/20 |
Reading Aloud and Oral Interpretation |
Trelease - Why Read Aloud? OR
Trelease
- in Disting. Educators on Reading
Collins
& Cooper - The Story is in the telling
Martin
- A Story Teller’s Story
Cassady
- Storytelling Step-by-Step
Postings
are due by Monday with responses to other due by Thursday |
Timeline
Web
quest due |
| 3 |
1/27 |
Traditional, Workshop, & Critical Approaches to Literature Study |
Dominic
(read this 1st before the Eeds & Peterson reading)
Eeds
& Peterson - What teachers need to know about the literary
craft?? Swift-Try
Reading Workshop
OR:
Calkins
- (chapter 4 pg. 65-79 in Art of Tchg.
Reading)
Shannon-Developing Critical Literacy Education
|
Book
Talks
Reader Response
Reading
Strategy: Cloning the Author
|
| 4 |
2-3 |
Social & Political Action |
Focused
Study
Bird
et. al Burke
Berghoff
Lewis-Today’s Kids Care - Social Action
Social & Political Action
Leland,
et. al. - You Can Hear a Pin Drop
Vasques-Building
Equitable Communities
Heffernan
& Lewison - Making Real-World Issues our business
|
Reader
Response
Reading
Strategy: Ink Shedding
Book
Talk |
| 5 |
2/10 |
Picture Book Genre Study |
Author’s Circles |
Book
Talk |
| 6 |
2/17 |
Multicultural Literature |
Coonrod & Hughes Sims
Bishop Macphee
Yokota
Taylor |
Reader
Response
Reading
Strategy:
Have
I got some questions for U
Book
Circle #1 |
| 7 |
2/24 |
Exploring Literature Through Drama |
Galda
& West Edmiston |
Oral
Interpretations Response Paper Due
Reading
Strategy: Storying Connections
Book
Talk |
| 8 |
3/3 |
Censorship |
McClure
- Censorship in Children’s Books
You
will choose one other censorship article in the packet or another
article that you have e-mailed me about.
|
Reader
Response
Reading
Strategy: Free Writing - Ink shedding
Author’s
Circle |
| 9 |
3/10 |
Critical Issues & Harry Potter |
Six (6) WWW articles from packet (read the articles BEFORE reading
the book) Rowling - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone |
Reader
Response
Reading
Strategy:
Double
Entry Journal
Book
Circle #2 |
| 10 |
3/17 |
SPRING BREAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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|
| 11 |
3/24 |
Gender Issues |
Ernst Fox |
Reader
Response
Reading
Strategy: Anomalies
Book
Circle #2 |
| 12 |
3/31 |
Focused Study Due |
No readings due this week |
Focused
Studies Due |
| 13 |
4/7 |
Literary Comparisons |
Spinelli - Maniac Magee
Taylor
- Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry
Konigsburg
- The View From Saturday |
Reader
Response
Reading
Strategy: Save the Last Word for Me
Author’s
Circle #3 |
| 14 |
4/14 |
Equity Issues |
Evans-Spaces for Equity? Gallas-Story
Time as a Magical Act Open to Only the Initiated |
Reader
Response
Reading
Strategy: Webbing What’s On Your Mind
Literature
Journal
Picture
Books Due! |
| 15 |
4/21 |
Poetry |
Siemens Fawcett
Tomlinson
& Lynch-Brown
Calkins (ch. 9)
Apol
Harris
|
Reader
Response
Reading
Strategy: Quotable Quotes |
| 16 |
4/27 |
Work
on I-Search Paper |
|
I-Search
Paper due 4/27 (Sunday). You may turn them in prior to 4/27 but
not before 4/21. |