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AML 2410
Fall 2006
Issues in American Literature and Culture:
American Children's Popular Culture in Literature, Film and Media
Schedule
Instructor: Cathlena Martin
Email: cmartin@english.ufl.edu
Section: 3698
Office: Image Lab on 4th Floor of Rolfs Hall or Turlington 4409
Office Hours: Tuesday 11-3 in the Image Lab on the 4th Floor of Rolfs Hall
Mailbox: 4301 Turlington
Class Times: MWF per 8
Class Room: CBD 310
Class Website: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/cmartin
Class Wiki: http://aml2410.pbwiki.com/
(password: child)
Class Blog: http://aml2410fall06.blogspot.com/
Class Gradebook: http://www.engrade.com/login.cgi
Class Listserve: f06-3698@clas.ufl.eduSchedule
This schedule will change and adapt to the needs of the class as we progress throughout the semester. Please visit the online schedule for updates and revisions. The blog is an assignment that will be weekly throughout the semester.No class:
September 4: Labor Day
October 6: Homecoming
November 10: Veterans Day
November 23-25: Thanksgiving
Introduction: Children's Culture
Week 1: August 23-25
Wednesday: Course introduction: syllabus, assignments, and materials. Play 20 questions with child lit characters.
HW: purchase course packFriday: Course introduction: discuss results of 20?s game, American children's culture, and childhood.
HW: Purchase course pack; read Anne Scott MacLeod's "Children's Literature in America from the Puritan Beginnings to 1870" for Monday; reading questions for MacLeod.
Week 2: August 28-September 1
Monday: discuss MacLeod's article; introduce Baldwin.
HW: read a pre-1900 children's book and prepare to discuss it Friday. You can either go to the Baldwin special collections in Library East or read one of their digitized books (http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/UFDC/UFDC.aspx?c=juv). Post a bibliography and summary of the book on the class wiki before class Friday.Wednesday: Move to Circa lab: gradebook, wiki, blog; introduce Show and Share; walk to Baldwin if time.
HW: read a pre-1900s children's book and prepare to discuss it Friday. You can either go to the Baldwin library in Library East or read one of their digitized books (http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/UFDC/UFDC.aspx?c=juv). Post a bibliography and summary of the book on the class wiki before class Friday.
Friday: Show and Share - pre-1900 children's book
HW: blog post is due Sunday by midnight;
- read Stephen Kline's "The Making of Children's Culture" by Wednesday. Reading questions for Kline;
-find on object to bring Friday the 15th that represents American children's culture to you (if you travel home for Labor Day think about your own childhood);
- sign up for the class listserv by Wednesday's class (instructions below).To sign up for the class listserv, send an email from your gatorlink email account to
f06-3698-request@clas.ufl.edu
with the word subscribe as the body text. You do not need a subject line. You will receive an email back. You must follow the instruction on the received email or you will not be signed up for the listserv. It is a two part process. Complete this process before Wednesday's class.
Week 3: September 4-8
Monday: no class - Labor Day
HW Find on object to bring Friday the 15th that represents American children's culture to you;
-read Stephen Kline's "The Making of Children's Culture" by Wednesday; reading questions for Kline.Wednesday: discuss Kline's article.
HW: read Karin Lesnik-Oberstein's "Childhood and Textuality: Culture, History, Literature." by Monday;
-review show and share for presentation if you have not presented yet.Friday: Show and Share - pre 1900's children book
HW: read Karin Lesnik-Oberstein's "Childhood and Textuality: Culture, History, Literature" by Monday; reading questions for Lesnik-Oberstein;
-blog post is due Sunday by midnight and don't forget that you need to not only post an original post, but also respond to one of your classmate's posts;
- read Gillian Brown's "Child's Play" for Wednesday; reading questions for Brown.
Week 4: September 11-15
Monday: discuss Oberstein's article; how is children's literature and culture studied?; show commercial example responding to blog posts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02buX8_8C7o
HW: read Gillian Brown's "Child's Play" for Wednesday; reading questions for Brown.Wednesday: discuss Brown's article; what do we fear about children's absorptions?
HW: read Peter Hunt's "Children's Literature in America (1870-1945)" for Monday;
-read Grammar and Mechanics Guide in PDF before writing your wiki post;
-bring show and share object (an object/artifact that represent's American children's culture to you). If you don't have the actual object, bring a picture of the object. Post on class wiki why you choose the artifact that you did; what the artifact means to you; why this object is a representation of children's culture and how are you defining children's culture (children's culture when you were growing up vs. children's culture of today)?Friday: Show and Share - children's culture object; discuss Caldecott assignment
HW: read Peter Hunt's "Children's Literature in America (1870-1945)" for Monday; reading questions for Hunt;
-blog post is due Sunday by midnight;
-sign up for Caldecott book on wiki and begin reading for next Friday (only one book per student - no duplicates);
-select Newbery to read for your reading journal (doesn't matter if there are duplicates).
Traditional Children's Books: Winning Books
Week 5: September 18-22
Monday: discuss Hunt's article
HW: read about the Newbery and Caldecott Medal criteria particularly focusing on the Caldecott Award; -continue reading your Caldecott book;
-Post a bibliography and summary of the Caldecott book on the class wiki before class Friday (only one student per book - first come, first serve - sign up on class wiki);
-read your Newbery book.Wednesday: discuss the Newbery and Caldecott awards and criteria, discuss Caldecott analysis assignment; go over clarity in writing if time. Class review.
HW: Select one Caldecott winner to read and present to the class
Newbery winners and Caldecott winners. Post a bibliography and summary of the book on the class wiki before class Friday; begin essay analyzing Caldecott winner as to the terms and criteria.
-Read online powerpoint about making your writing more clear.
-Keep reading your Newbery book.Friday: Show and Share - Caldecott (give a summary of your book and discuss the illustrations; you will evaluate why your book won briefly on the wiki and in a longer version in the paper, but not in the presentation); bring the book in and actually show it to the class (as a UF student you can get an Alachua County Public library card).
HW: read Badar's "The American Line" for Monday (Instead of reading questions, the main thing I want you to focus on in the article is how the picture books are discussed and particularly how the illustrations are analyzed and described.);
-bring your Caldecott book everyday next week.
-read Nodleman's Words About Pictures in PDF form in the wiki for Wednesday;
-Work on essay analyzing Caldecott winner as to the terms and criteria;
-blog post is due Sunday by midnight.
Week 6: September 25-29Monday: discuss "The American Line"; discuss results of class review.
HW: read Nodleman's Words About Pictures in PDF form in the wiki for Wednesday (Instead of reading questions, take notes from this chapter that apply to your individual Caldecott book; what in this chapter could be used to discuss and analyze your Caldecott book?);
-bring your Caldecott book to class
-Work on essay analyzing Caldecott winner as to the terms and criteria.Wednesday: discuss Nodelman's chapter
HW: Work on essay analyzing Caldecott winner as to the terms and criteria.Friday: Caldecott Essay full draft due today; peer review essay.
HW: Read Spigel, Lynn. "Seducing the Innocent: Childhood and Television in Postwar America" for Monday; reading questions for Spigel.
-polish Caldecott Essay.
Popular Children's Media: Television, Film and Video Games
Week 7: October 2-6 - Television
Monday: Caldecott Essay due today; discuss Spigel; assign first review (select two of three reviews: television, film or video game)
HW: begin working on media reviewWednesday: discuss media assignment; watch Pee-wee's Playhouse episode and if time watch Simpson's episode Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples And Teens, And Gays from Season 15 First aired: 1/4/2004 Production Code: FABF03 (or, possibly Bart the General, Moaning Lisa, or Bart Gets an F from Season 1 or Marge Be Not Proud from Season 7 or Lisa Gets an A in Season 10 or Itchy & Scratchy & Marge)
HW: read William Savage Jr. "'So Television's Responsible!': Oppositionality and the Interpretive Logic of Satire and Censorship in The Simpsons and South Park." for Monday;
- work on media review.Friday: no class - Homecoming
HW: blog post is due Monday by midnight;
-work on media review;
- begin reading a book for the next show and share. This book can be any children's or adolescent's book that has been turned into a movie or a television show or a video game.
Week 8: October 9-13 - Television
Monday: discuss Savage; Itchy & Scratchy; Terrence and Phillip
HW: work on rough draft of first review;
-work on media reviewWednesday: peer review first review; assign second review, assign group project and get in teams
HW: post on the class wiki a bibliography and summary of your book and discuss the differences between the book and the other medium (movie, tv, video game) that it has been translated into before next Wednesday's class;
-read Manuel Martin-Rodriquez's "Reel Origins: Multiculturalism, History, and the American Children's Movie" for Monday.Friday: take this class time to meet as a group to discuss your project and work on your project proposal.
HW: polish review;
- blog post is due Monday by midnight.
Week 9: October 16-20 - Film
Monday: First media review due; discuss Martin-Rodriquez
Wednesday: Watch and look at Lemony Skicket texts; Show and Share: give a summary of your book and discuss the differences between the book and the other medium (movie, tv, video game) that it has been translated into; Disney ralated transmedia franchising; announce Harry Potter viewing next Tuesday.
HW: work on second reviewFriday: Show and Share: give a summary of your book and discuss the differences between the book and the other medium (movie, tv, video game) that it has been translated into.
HW: work on second review;
- read Valerie Walkerdine "Children in Cyberspace" for Wednesday;
- post team topic proposal on wiki by Wednesday
- blog post is due Monday by midnight.-Sometime between Oct 20 and Nov 12, go see the Alice in Wonderland play showing at the Hippodrome downtown.
Week 10: October 23-27 - Internet and Video Games
Monday: peer edit second review; discuss group project
HW: post team topic proposal on wiki by Wednesday
- polish rough draft of review
- read Valerie Walkerdine "Children in Cyberspace" for Wednesday.Tuesday (Oct. 24) at the Reitz Union Cinema at 8pm there will be a showing of
Brad Neely's comic masterpiece "Wizard People, dear readers." It's a
complete alternate audio track for the first Harry Potter film that narrates
it as if it's a (slightly dirty) book on tape. Great for Potter lovers &
haters alike. This show has the added advantage of being FREE.
More on Wizard People, including the NY Times review &c. can be found at <www.illegal-art.org>.Wednesday: discuss Walkerdine article; discuss group project - need team topic today on wiki
HW: polish second media review;
- read Noga Applebaum's "Electronic Texts and Adolescent Agency: Computers and the Internet in Contemporary Children's Fiction." for MondayFriday: play Lemony Snicket video game in class and discuss the transition of media from book to movie to video game..
HW: read Noga Applebaum's "Electronic Texts and Adolescent Agency: Computers and the Internet in Contemporary Children's Fiction." for Monday;
- read a children's text that incorporates digital media;
-polish media review
- blog post is due Monday by midnight.Sometime between Oct 20 and Nov 12, go see the Alice in Wonderland play showing at the Hippodrome downtown.
Week 11: October 30-November 3 -Internet and Video Games
Monday: Second review due today; discuss Applebaum
HW: post bibliography and summary of children's book that incorporates digital media on class wiki by class Wedsday and explain the media it uses.Wednesday: Show and Share - children's book that incorporates digital media;
HW: read Susan McKay, Crispin Thurlow, and Heather Toomey Zimmerman. "Wired whizzes or techno-slaves? Young people and their emergent communication technologies." for Monday.Friday: group work for final project
HW: read Susan McKay, Crispin Thurlow, and Heather Toomey Zimmerman. "Wired whizzes or techno-slaves? Young people and their emergent communication technologies." for Monday;
- blog post is due Monday by midnight.-Sometime between Oct 20 and Nov 12, go see the Alice in Wonderland play showing at the Hippodrome downtown.
Week 12: November 6-10 - Internet and Video Games
Monday: discuss McKay, Thurlow, and Zimmerman
HW: work on group project;
Wednesday: Show and Share - children's book that incorporates digital media;
HW: work on group project.Friday: No class - Veteran's Day
HW: blog post is due Monday by midnight
-written progress report on team project due next Wednesay
-prepare reading journal to turn in Monday.
-Sometime between Oct 20 and Nov 12, go see the Alice in Wonderland play showing at the Hippodrome downtown.
Group Projects
Week 13: November 13-17 - Group Projects
Monday: Turn in reading journal; I will meet with each team individually during class to discuss the project's progress and the group presentation.
HW: work on group project and progress reportWednesday: Written proposal/progress report on group project due in class (see wiki for exact details)- one hard copy/one elecronic copy per team; I will meet with each team individually during class to discuss the project's progress and the group presentation.
HW: work on group projectFriday: group work for final project
HW: blog post is due Sunday by midnight.
Week 14: November 20-24 - Group Projects
Monday: group work for final project
HW: work on group project and presentation
Tuesday - no office hours
Wednesday: group work for final project
HW: work on group project and presentationFriday: no class - Thanksgiving
Week 15: November 27-December 1 - Group Presentations
Monday: group presentation
Wednesday: group presentation
Friday: 3 individual presentations
Week 16: December 4-6 - Group Presentations
Monday: group presentation
HW: Fill out Team Evaluation (all members of your group including yourself) and bring it to class Wednesday.Wednesday: Last day of class; group presentation; Final group project due in class today. Team Evaluation due.