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CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: TEACHING SCHEDULE

Please print out the lecture and seminar handouts and bring them to the relevant lecture and seminar. New handouts will be added on a weekly basis. In order to make the new link 'live' you may have to click your browser's 'refresh' button.

First Semester

Week 1: No classes

Week 2: 'Little Red Riding Hood', in Tatar, ed, Classic Fairy Tales, pp.3-24.

            Lecture Handout                  Seminar Handout

Week 3: Sarah Fielding, The Governess (1749).

            Lecture Handout                  Seminar Handout

Week 4: Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1789, 1794).

            Lecture Handout                  Seminar Handout

Week 5: Captain Marryat, The Children of the New Forest (1847).

            Lecture Handout                  Seminar Handout

Week 6: Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown’s Schooldays (1857).

            Lecture and Seminar Handout

Week 7: Reading Week  

Week 8: Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865).

            Lecture and Seminar Handout

Week 9: Louisa May Alcott, Little Women (1868).

            Lecture and Seminar Handout                 

Week 10: Writing Essays

            Lecture Handout                  Seminar Handout

Week 11: Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876).

            Lecture and Seminar Handout

Week 12: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island (1883).

            Lecture and Seminar Handout

                

Second Semester

Week 1: J.M. Barrie, Peter and Wendy (1911).

            Lecture and Seminar Handout

Week 2: C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950).

            Lecture and Seminar Handout          

Week 3: Michelle Magorian, Goodnight Mister Tom (1981).

            Lecture/Seminar Handout              

Week 4: Philip Pullman, Northern Lights (1998).

            Lecture/Seminar Handout 

Week 5: BBC Children’s Television

Lecture Handout; Seminar Handout: Please buy and view the following two DVDs: Welcome to Lazy Town and Shoebox Zoo Series 1. In addition, please watch some BBC children's television on the following channels: CBeebies, CBBC, BBC1 (3.05pm - 5.15pm weekdays) or BBC2 (6am -11am weekdays).

Week 6: Jamila Gavin, Coram Boy (2000).

            Lecture/Seminar Handout 

Week 7: Malorie Blackman, Noughts and Crosses (2001).

            Lecture/Seminar Handout 

Week 8: Melvin Burgess, Doing It (2003).

            Lecture/Seminar Handout

 

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