EGL2230 Evaluation and Selection of Historical Fiction

EGL2230 Evaluation and Selection of Historical Fiction

Instructions/Descriptions

EGL2230 Evaluation and Selection of Historical Fiction

Part I: Applying the criteria… Worth 100 points.

In the second half of the semester, we’ve read tradebooks representative of two different genres (fantasy and historical fiction). Choose one of the tradebooks that you’ve read after midterm (The Giver, Out of the Dust, or Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry) and write a 1 1/2-2-page typed essay

(complete with thesis and a minimum of three supporting paragraphs) discussing the book’s use of the genre’s conventions  that is, explore what makes the book a good example of either modern fantasy or historical fiction. Evaluate how the book fulfills the criteria for evaluating that genre as explained in our textbook, Essentials of Children’s Literature

(“Evaluation and Selection of Historical Fiction,”; “Evaluation and Selection of Modern Fantasy,”) by identifying the characteristics of the genre and by giving examples (including supporting quotations) that show how these characteristics come into play in the book.

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Part II: You’re the teacher… Worth 100 points.

I’m unable to teach my Children’s Literature class on October 8, 2020, and I have asked you to fill in for me. I haven’t finalized the syllabus yet, so you can teach your choice of the three books that we’ve read after our midterm (again, The Giver, Out of the Dust, or Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry – but choose a book other than the one that you wrote about for Part 1! ),

or you could teach a class on traditional literature. What would you want the students in the class to know about the literary work at the end of the period? Keep in mind that this class is a college literature class (and not a class for children of the appropriate age-group, which would be a different question!

In other words, you aren’t writing a lesson plan for an elementary school class)… What literary elements (characters, theme, setting, style, structure) would you emphasize? Why is your book significant to a student of literature? Again, frame your answer to be about 1 1/2 – 2 typed pages in length.

Make sure that your essays reflect some breadth (again, don’t write on the same book for both essays, and don’t “recycle” material from your essays!). Show me your best writing style (this is a 2000-level English class, after all!), and demonstrate how carefully you’ve thought about the texts covered in your essays.

And think of this as a final exam: if you were taking an in-class essay, you would study for a certain number of hours, and then come to take the exam during our two hour time period.

Begin by “studying,” or drafting the essays now, and then closer to the due date, go back and spend two hours revising the two essays to turn in… Your completed final exam should be 3-4 typed pages long. To make it easier to upload and download the essays, please send as one file (Final Exam Essays) instead of two separate files (Part I and Part II).

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Outcomes for the final exam essays:

1. Students will formulate a clear thesis statement about the literary works they choose to discuss.
2. Students will support their ideas by including examples and correctly-presented quotations from the literary works discussed.
3. Students will apply literary terms relevant to the works discussed such as character, plot, theme, setting.
4. Students will demonstrate an understanding of genre by explaining how a work of literature satisfies the criteria for evaluating that genre (historical fiction, fantasy).

EGL2230 Evaluation and Selection of Historical Fiction

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