PdF:AJ2MP_LDML Children's Literature - Course Information
AJ2MP_LDML Children's Literature
Faculty of EducationSpring 2014
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- PhDr. Irena Přibylová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
- Guaranteed by
- PhDr. Irena Přibylová, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Jana Popelková
Supplier department: Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education - Timetable of Seminar Groups
- AJ2MP_LDML/01: Tue 8:25–10:05 učebna 58, I. Přibylová
- Prerequisites
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- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in English Language and Literature (programme PdF, M-ZS5)
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in English Language and Literature (programme PdF, N-ZS)
- Course objectives
- A general introduction to the literature for children and young readers in English, with a special focus on Young Adult Literature, and British and American regions. Genres discussed and presented in the reader will cover selected examples of oral literature, modern poetry, realistic literature for young readers, YAL, series fiction, fantasy fiction, graphic novels and manga. Students will read one full novel (from a separate list) and will present it in the end of the semester. The course aims to support knowledge, experience, analytical and interpretative skills, and independent reading related to the area of YAL.
- Syllabus
- Course schedule:
- 1. Nursery rhymes.
- 2. Modern poetry for young readres.
- 3. Folk tales and modern fairy tales.
- 4. From the Golden Age of children's literature to the 1900s.
- 5. From the 1920s to the 1930s.
- 6. Through the 1940s to the 1960s.
- 7. From the 1970s to the 1980s.
- 8. Test (30 mins.).
- 8. - 11. Student presentations (contemporary literature)
- Literature
- recommended literature
- Modern children's literature : an introduction. Edited by Kimberley Reynolds. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, x, 278. ISBN 1403916128. info
- CART, Michael. Young adult literature : from romance to realism. Chicago: American Library Association, 2010, ix, 242. ISBN 9780838910450. info
- Young adult literature and adolescent identity across cultures and classrooms : contexts for the literary lives of teens. Edited by Janet Alsup. London: Routledge, 2010, ix, 225. ISBN 9780415876995. info
- Teaching methods
- Reading, discussing and analyzing selected texts.Set reading of primary and secondary texts.
- Assessment methods
- Test.(Pass 70%).
Presentations. - Language of instruction
- English
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2014, recent)
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