ED 414 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Fantasy, Peter R. Hunt, Seth Lerer
12 Oct 2018
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ED 414
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
ENGL3000 – Lecture 1
Office Hours: Wed 14.30-15.30 ND 24/202
HOMEWORK:
- Who is Angeline? Office?
▪ Angeline.Oneill@nd.edu.au
▪ ND42
(The Fremantle Hotel)
Level 2, Corner of Cliff & High Streets,
▪ Head of literature department
- Watch video on slide show – What is the point of Literature? The School of Life.
o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RCFLobfqcw DONE
- Machel Foucault – interested in how language is used to insert power over people. Who
is he? (look on youtube)
- Literature theory
Assessments:
Essay 1 – week 5 (30%)
Essay 2 – Week 11 (40%)
Exam – (30%)
*Chicago Formatting (Style guide on library website)
What is hildre’s literature?
In this unit students examine literature told to or written for children and adolescents.
The course takes an historic, generic and thematic approach and asks how children and
their literature have been and are conceptualized as we move into the twenty-first
century.
Is Childre’s Literature a cultural artefact or a means by which culture defines itself?
What is the changing nature of the adult-child relationship? How do we discern and
ealuate a poetis of hildre’s literature? Students examine oral traditions as well as
the written tradition and screen adaptations.
o Literature told to or written for children
o Lenses: historic, generic and thematic
- Used to teach morals of life
- Bridges gaps between picture books and higher literature
o Turning images into fantasy words then into stories
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History:
- Two branches of Literature
o Oral tradition
▪ Passing on through generations through songs, proverbs and
folktales. Includes cosmologies and myths
▪ Poetry, drama, what we watch and listen to
o Written tradition
▪ The novel
▪ Keeping record of teachings
▪ Plato writing Socrates, scribes and scholars, Chaucer, Gutenberg
printing press
English literature
- Olde English (circa 700)
- Modern literature begins in (1500-1600) Renaissance period – English becomes
dominate language
- English civil war in 18th C, writing about dethroning king and becoming own republic
- 18th- 19th C, Industrial revolution. Writing about the oppression. Literature speaks up
against. Romantic: be in nature, not being in industry. Marks
- Victorian era: children literature begins. Literacy rates in children down.
- Morris Gleitzman – Interesting ideal of seeing children as individuals and
understanding all that occurs within them. Just because they are small does not
mean that they do’t hae assie thigs goig o iside of the.
- Nopton – the one who cannot speak (Greek)
- Ingans – unable to speak (Latin)
- A child is not yet a person, no matter what language it is, oppresses their ability
- Childhood was seen as an apprenticeship, training one into adulthood.
- School until 11, secondary school to learn greek and latin. Preparation for
government. Education is paid for.
o Pedagogue: means slave
o Pedagogy is role play and repetition.
- Confession by st Augustine
o Example of an educational tradition from classical world surviving well into
the late colonial period. Repetition
o Life of a child was reciting classical texts
o ROTE learning – memorization and copying instructor. Usually with little
understanding. No personal ideals.
- Plato’s eo
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