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Children’s Literature (H-810F)
Instructor
Lolly Robinson(Charlotte Robinson)
Teaching Fellow
Chris [email protected]
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
Children’s Literature (H-810F)
GUEST SPEAKER
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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
Horn Book office
Horn Book: incoming books
Horn Book Guide: books from one 6-month publishing season
Horn Book editors (editing review section)
Horn Book covers
David Wiesner2002
Horn Book covers
Maurice Sendak2003
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Maira Kalman2004
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Lois Ehlert2007
Horn Book covers
Lane Smith2009
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Brian Selznick2010
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Jerry Pinkney2010
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Tomie de Paola2011
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Salley Mavor2012
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Jeannie Baker2013
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Paul O. Zelinsky2013
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Laura Vaccaro Seeger2013
Questions?