Module Twelve Overview
Fantasy and Children
Contents
Assignments
- Respond to any remaining assigned book presentations.
- Prepare and post Presentation #4 (for next week)
- 5-6 minute video including an introduction explaining your choice as a potential lasting classic and an excerpt from the book so we get a taste of what it is.
- Choose a book (from the last decade or so) that you feel represents a voice we haven’t heard at all or enough in the traditional children’s literature canon.
- Think about the relationship between classic and canon and what might mark a book as a potential classic. Does the book you chose have the potential to become a classic? Is it especially timely for right now? Do you think it will speak to children in the future as well?
- Can be for any age “child”
- Review vocal exercises
- Sign up for a final grade meeting- mandatory to receive a grade in this class.
- Your 500-word self-reflection must be turned in 24 hours before this meeting.
