Study Calendar 2010/11

EA300 Children’s literature

Study ASSIGNMENTS
Week
Start date Audio-visual (DVDs 1 and 2) Other components Number Cut-off date

1 2 Oct Block 1: Instruction or delight? DVD 1, no. 1: Jane Johnson’s nursery library Reader 1
Children’s literature and the child

2 9 Oct What is children’s literature? DVD 1, nos. 2–3: Children’s writers on writing for children;
Set text: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone or Melvin Burgess and Diana Wynne Jones
Northern Lights

3 16 Oct ‘Once upon a time …’ DVD 1, no. 4: Visual representations of Little Red Riding Hood Reader 1

4 23 Oct Study week TMA 01 Thu 28 Oct

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5 30 Oct Block 2: Books for girls and books for boys DVD 1, no. 5: Boys’ and girls’ reading in the 19 century
Girls at home. Set text: Little Women

6 6 Nov Girls making new homes DVD-ROM Part 1, s.1 and 2

7 13 Nov Growing up, gender and reading DVD 1, no. 6: Reading and gender today: children’s views Readers 1 and 2
Set text: Treasure Island

8 20 Nov Treasure, empire, ideology Reader 2

DVD-ROM Part 1, s.3 and 4

9 27 Nov Study week TMA 02 Thu 2 Dec

10 4 Dec Block 3: Poetry and performance DVD 1, nos, 7–8: Poetry readings; Grace Nichols’s reworking Reader 1
Poems, rhyme and verse for children of poetic tradition DVD-ROM Part 2, s.1–4
Set text: 100 Best Poems for Children

11 11 Dec Song, story and performance DVD 1, nos. 9–11: Stories in performance 1; Stories in Reader 1
Set text: Peter Pan and Other Plays performance 2; Peter Pan: BBC Radio production DVD-ROM Part 2, s.5

12 18 Dec Performance and adaptation DVD 1, nos. 12–13: Peter Pan: Caird-Nunn production; Readers 1 and 2
Peter Pan: Disney animation Peter Pan (DVD, 2003)

25 Dec Holiday week

13 1 Jan Study week

14 8 Jan Reading week: begin to read set texts for Block 4 TMA 03 Thu 13 Jan

15 15 Jan Block 4: The prestigious and the popular Readers 1 and 2

The importance of the real
Set text: Swallows and Amazons

16 22 Jan The power of the fantastic DVD 2, no. 1: Staging Tom’s Midnight Garden Readers 1 and 2
Set text: Tom’s Midnight Garden

17 29 Jan Witness, history and activism Reader 2

Set text: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

18 5 Feb Prizes, prestige and popularity DVD 2, nos. 2–5: Carnegie shadowing; Interview with Philip Readers 1 and 2
Revisit Harry Potter or Northern Lights Pullman; Comics; Manga

19 12 Feb Study week TMA 04 Thu 17 Feb

20 19 Feb Block 5: Words and pictures DVD 2, no. 6: An introduction to illustration: Martin Salisbury Reader 1
Starting to look at images Part 2 of this audio is on the module website DVD-ROM Part 3, s.1–3

21 26 Feb A classic in words and pictures Readers 1 and 2

Set text: The Tale of Peter Rabbit

22 5 Mar Picturebooks, postmodernism, intertextuality and play DVD 2, no. 7: Interview with Anthony Browne Reader 1
Set text: Voices in the Park DVD-ROM Part 3, s.4

23 12 Mar Study week TMA 05 Thu 17 March

24 19 Mar Block 6: Contemporary trends DVD 2, no. 8: New directions in publishing 1: Working Partners Readers 1 and 2
Socially committed children’s fiction
Set text: The Other Side of Truth

25 26 Mar Alternative worlds DVD 2, no. 9: New directions in publishing 2: Barrington Stokes Reader 2
Set text: Coram Boy or Mortal Engines

26 2 Apr Young adult fiction DVD 2, nos. 10–11: Jacqueline Wilson on growing up; Reader 2
Set text: Junk New directions in publishing 3: readers’ voices

27 9 Apr Current trends DVD 2, no. 12–13: Kerry Mallan on gender and identity; Reader 1
New directions in publishing 4: publishing trends

16 Apr Study week TMA 06 Thu 21 April

28 23 Apr Holiday week

29 30 Apr Work on EMA

30 7 May Work on EMA

31 14 May Work on EMA

32 21 May Work on EMA EMA Thu 26 May

Assessment strategy: There are two components of assessment: continuous assessment and the examinable component. To be sure of a pass, you need to achieve a minimum score of 40 in each
component. Similarly, to be sure of a higher grade, a minimum set score must be achieved in each component (see the Assessment Handbook: Undergraduate Modules).
Continuous assessment component: TMA 01 and TMA 02 are weighted at 16%; TMAs 03–06 are weighted at 17% each. TMAs 01–06 constitute 100 per cent of this component.
Substitution: As described in the Assessment Handbook: Undergraduate Modules, substitution is not permitted for any TMA on this module.
Examinable component: The end of module assessment (EMA) is 100 per cent of this component. There is no final examination on this module.

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