History of Children

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History of Childrens Literature 12004EDU12HCL

• Assessment

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Assessment

• Annotated Bibliography 20
• Poster Assignment/Presentation 40
• Exam 40

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ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Aim
• For students to experience doing a literature
  search including
• recording search history
• searching different sources,
• using different search terms and strategies.

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Requirements

• Minimum of 10 entries
• wide variety of resources including
• books (collections, picture books, novels, plays,
  poetry, reference books)
• Videos/DVDs
• journal articles (hard copy and online),
• academic monographs,
• conference papers, newspaper articles,
• artistic texts (paintings, drawings, sculpture,
  dance, music)
• web-sites and documents down-loaded from the
  Internet.

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• Each bibliography must include a range of
  different resources (minimum of five must
  include one academic journal article and one
  academic monograph ).
• Students are expected to keep a record of their
  search history including the sources they
  searched (eg. databases, indexes),
• search terms (eg. key words, descriptors)
• search strategies (eg. and/or, limitation by
  time) used

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Bibliographic Details

• Harvard (Author, Date) Referencing System,
• Assignment Manual (2004 49-64)
• include details relevant to the type of resources
• Eg.
• Author/s
• Title of article/book/resource
• Journal/book title/series title
• Vol/Edition, No, Month, Year, Pages
• Place of publication (City) Publisher

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Critical Analysis of Resource

• Primary focus/theme of resource
• Background information about author/producer of
  resource
• (Who wrote it? Why?
• For whom is it written?
• What is their academic authority to speak on the
  subject?
• Any agenda being pushed?)
• Links to other resources
• Strengths of resource
• Weaknesses of resource
• Other comments about the resource.

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Poster

• Preparation (individual mark 30 )
• Presentation (group mark 10)
• 15 mins. in tute
• Groups (2 - 4 students) working collaboratively
• Theme
• Different topi c to bibliography

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Ways of doing poster

• The poster assignment can be done as
• a comparison of 3 versions of same story
• an exploration of an allocated theme
• a topic/tradition/author of interest
• (by prior negotiation with your lecturer).

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Comparing 3 versions of the same story

• need to include a short synopsis of the books.
• You will also need to consider the following
  issues
• Which traditions do the books draw on (ie.
  Celtic, Roman etc. or epic, myth, fairytale?
• How has the writer modified/rewritten elements of
  the tradition to suit his/her version (consider
  the use of motifs, archetypes, symbols,
  characters, names, settings)
• Do you think the versions work? Discuss any
  weaknesses of the texts.

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Exam

• In two parts.
• Section A worth 20
• short answer questions concerning
• texts studied
• key themes discussed in lectures and tutorials
  during the semester.
• Section B worth 20.
• extended answer questions
• Students will be given the topics for this
  section in the last week of semester and will be
  expected to prepare and reference their answers.

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Expectations

• Attendance at all lectures and tutorials
• Pre-reading completed before relevant class
• Reading Diaries will help revise for exams but
  are not marked
• All students to participate in class discussion
• Willingness to question
• Willingness to respect others opinions