Schedule
Week 1: Introduction
W 1/7- Course introduction
Assignment - Read Thompson, Stith. The Folktale. Berkeley:
UP of California. 1946, 1977. pages 3-10.
F 1/9 - individual introductions
Assignment: Read Lechner, Judith V. Allyn & Bacon Anthology
of Traditional Literature. Boston: Pearson. 2004. pages
1-15.
Buy your books if you have not already done so.
Arbuthnot, May Hill (compiled by). Revised
Edition Time For Fairy Tales Old and New. Glenview, Illinois: Scott,
Foresman, and Co. 1961. pages
2-6. Another folktale introduction.
Week 2:
M 1/12 - Discuss introduction to folktales from around the world
Assignment: read introductions from the Cole and Yolen texts (the last
of the introductions); sign up for the listserve (email s04-1830-request@clas.ufl.edu
with "subscribe" in the body text.); check and see if you
can log into the gradebook.
W 1/14 - Discuss sanitation of folktales for
children and the scope of Cole and Yolen's texts
Assignment: read Clarke, M.B and A.G Clarke. Retellings: A Thematic
Literature Anthology. Boston: McGraw Hill. 2004. pages
3-17; find example of a Cinderella text and bring into class Friday
with the cover sheet.
Which fairy tale ends with the villian falling
off a precipice in the Disney version and forced to wear hot iron shoes
until she danced herself to death in the Grimm version? If the woman
yesterday on Hollywood Squares had known the correct answer she would
have won $100,000.
F 1/16 - Discuss Retelling Reading and Cinderella
student examples
Assignment: read Bettelheim's analysis of Cinderella (to be posted)
Week 3: Tales that Explain Natural Phenomena
M 1/19 - No class MLK Day
Assignment - start on reading of "Tales that explain natural phenomena"
in Cole (list on page 783); start looking for your own example of a
folktale that explains a natural phenomena and bring it to class
Friday
W 1/21 - No Class, but proceed with the assignments
as normal - I will post the Cinderella pages as soon as possible.
Assignment: read "Tales that explain natural phenomena" in
Cole (you will kind a list on page 783); find your own example of a
folktale that explains a natural phenomena and bring it to class for
Friday
F 1/23 - Discuss examples from students and set
up groups for webpage assignment.
Assignment: read the following pages about how to use Dreamweaver before
next Friday's class http://www.image.ufl.edu/help/dreamweaver/.
There is a good bit of information on these pages, so read as much as
you can to get a feel for the program, especially pay attention to the
basics pages.
Read "Tricksters, Rogues, and Cheats" 125-144 from Yolen
Week 4: Trickster tales
M 1/26 - Discuss Trickster Tales in General and the first tales from
Yolen
Assignment: read "Tricksters, Rogues, and Cheats" 144-163
from Yolen
W 1/28 - Discuss Tricksters reading 125-144
Assignment: catch up on reading and be sure and have read the dreamweaver
explanation pages http://www.image.ufl.edu/help/dreamweaver/
If you haven't done web design before or need
some basic guidelines, look over this chapter from Markel's Technical
Writing on Web Design.
F 1/30 - MEET IN CSE (Computer Science and Engineering)
Room E211 with everything you need for your group web project.
Assignment: read Trickster section Ali Baba to The Fly in Cole
Week 5 Trickster Tales
M 2/2 Discuss Cole reading and general Trickster
overview
Assignment: read the Trickster section God and the Devil Share the Harvest
to Tug or War in Cole
W 2/4 Discuss Cole reading
Assignment: bring in your own example of a modern (1950 to present)
trickster tale or character
F 2/6 - Discuss student examples
Assignment : read "The Fool" section in Yolen
Week 6 The Trickster and the Fool
M 2/9 Watch Mutzmag : an Appalachian folktale and discuss the
Fool
Assignment: start reading Fool and Noodlehead section in Cole and work
on trickster paper
W 2/11 Finish the last of Mutzmag, discuss the movie, and answer
any questions about the paper
Assignment: keep reading the Fool and Noodlehead section in Cole and
work on rough draft of trickster paper
F 2/13 (Friday the 13th) - rough draft of paper
DUE
Assignment: peer critique your group
members' rough drafts. Bring two copies of the peer critiques Monday:
one for the writer and one for me. Keep reading the Fool and Noodlehead
section in Cole. Be sure and bring a disk Monday also with at least
one group member's rough draft so that we can practice links.
Week 7 Trickster Paper, the Fool, and
web page
M 2/16 - Meet in the Computer lab in CSE Room E211. Be sure and bring
a disk with at least one group member's rough draft so that we can practice
links.
Assignment: Polish paper (two copies of your final paper should
be turned in a pocket notebook with your rough draft and critiques)
and finish reading Fool and Noodlehead section in Cole. Begin reading"Heroes"
in Yolen
W 2/18 Trickster paper DUE
Discuss Yolen's and Cole's Fools
Assignment: find an example of a fool or noodlehead tale not included
in our texts. Begin reading "Heroes" section in Yolen
F 2/20 - Discuss student examples and Yolen and
Cole's Fools
Assignment: read Prologue from Campbell on the Hero
Week 8 The Hero
M 2/23 -Discuss Campbell's Heroes (Brenda and Kara)
Assignment: read the first five tales in Yolen's Heroes and begin reading
the first chapter in Campbell (Departure)
W 2/25 - Discuss Yolen's Heroes
Assignment: finish reading Campbell Chapter 1: Departure
F 2/27 - Discuss Campbell Chapter 1 (Shylettera
and Aurora)
Assignment: read the final hero tales in Yolen and Campbell Chapter
2 (Initiation)
Week 9 The Hero
M 3/1 - Discuss Campbell Chapter 2 (Sara and Nicholas)
Assignment: read selections in Cole Hero tales and begin reading Campbell
Chapter 3 (Return)
W 3/3 - Discuss Cole Heros
Assignment: finish reading Campbell Chapter 3 (Return)
F 3/5 - No Class
Assignment:
read Campbell Part II Chapter 3 (Transformaions of the Hero); being
thinking about your Hero paper; read some more of Cole's hero tales
Week 10
3/8-3/12 SPRING BREAK—NO CLASSES
Week 11 - The Hero and Hero Paper
M 3/15 - Discuss Campbell Part 1: Chapter 3 and Part 2: Chapter 3
"Transformations of the Hero"
(Jennifer Poland group for part 1 and Julie, Shaune group part 2)
Assignment: finish reading Cole heros and work on rough draft of paper
W 3/17 - Discuss Cole hero, Campbell and answer
any questions about the paper
Assignment: work on rough draft and read the short Epilogue in Campbell,
particularly 'The Shapeshifter" and "The Hero Today".
F 3/19 - Brief discussion of Epilogue (Kyle's
group) and Writing about the Hero rough draft DUE
Assignment: in class peer critique
Week 12 - The Hero Paper and Class presentations
of folktales not covered in our major texts
M 3/22 - return peer critiques, class time for class presentation preparation
Assignment: polish Hero essay, work on class presentation
W 3/24 - class time for presentations of webproject
Assignment: polish hero essay and work on class assignments
F 3/26 - Writing about Hero Essay DUE, write evaluation
Assignment: Group work preparing for presentations after spring break
Week 13 Class Presentations
M 3/29 - In class group or individual presentation of folktale(s) not
covered in our major texts (Jennifer Castro and Brenda)
Assignment: work on Comp/Contrast paper
W 3/31 - In class group or individual presentation
of folktale(s) not covered in our major texts (John and Kirk, Lauren)
Assignment: work on paper and website
F 4/2 - In class group or individual presentation
of folktale(s) not covered in our major texts (Sara Sutfin and Jennifer
Poland, Stacey)
Assignment: work on paper and website
Week 14 Class Presentations
M 4/5 - In class group or individual presentation of folktale(s) not
covered in our major texts (Aurora and Shylettera, Kara)
Assignment: work on paper and website
W 4/7 - In class group or individual presentation
of folktale(s) not covered in our major texts (Julie and Shaune, Sara)
Assignment: work on paper and website
F 4/9 - No class for Good Friday
Assignment: work on your rough draft of Comparison/Contrast paper
Week 15 Writing Workshops
M 4/12 - Comparison/Contrast draft DUE. In class group or individual
presentation of folktale(s) not covered in our major texts (Nicholas,
Nicole, and Rachel)
Assignment: write peer critique
W 4/14 - In class group or individual presentation
of folktale(s) not covered in our major texts (Kyle, Katie)
Do class evaluations.
Assignment: polish web page. Bring in a disk(s) or CD with everything
(links, images, individual pages, index) on it Friday.
F 4/16 Group Web page project DUE (this will
not include your comparison contrast paper because more than likely
you haven't finished writing it. However, you will need to make a false
link for where the paper should go and I will upload them after you
have finished.), In class writing workshops for Comparison/Contrast
paper.
Assignment: polish comparison/contrast paper
Week 16 Last Week
M 4/19 - work out any webpage problems
Assignment - polish comparison/contrast paper
W 4/21 - Final Comparison/Contrast paper DUE
(you will turn in two paper copies in your folder as well as a copy
of the paper saved ON A FLOPPY DISK OR CD)- There is no Final Exam.