Date
Due Today
at the beginning of
class
Reading to be
Completed by Today
Week 1
28-Sep
Psych Reading WriteUp #1 of Chapter 1
Lifespan: Chapter 1
Lifespan/Psy
chology
Topic for
Today
Course
introduction
Introduction
to Lifespan
Development
English/Children's
Topic for Today
Chapter 1: Knowing
Children's Literature
Children’s: Chapter 1
Introduction
to Lifespan
Development
Lifespan: pp. 43-57
Heredity
Chapter 2:
Understanding
Children's Reponses
to Literature
Prenatal
development
English: Thesis
statements, appeals,
and evidence
Collection of
prerequisite
verification
30-Sep
Psych Reading WriteUp #2 of pp. 43-57
Children’s: Chapter 2
Week 2
5-Oct
Psych Reading WriteUp #3 of pp. 57-81
7-Oct
Lifespan: pp. 57-81
Overview of Today’s Plan for Class Time
AV & JC: Syllabus (30-45 minutes) – put up nameplates
(bring markers)
AV: Intro to Lifespan overview (up until lunch)
JC: “It’s a Book” by Lane Smith and how to summarize,
paraphrase, and quote – use an excerpt from the
textbook as example (after lunch time)
JC: Lecture on Elements of Literature and Narrative Arc
– bring six copies of a particular children’s book (A Chair
for My Mother) – up until lunch (play Rolling Stones
song “Can’t Always Get What You Want”) Conflict,
Struggle, Realization
Audio: http://www.rhapsody.com/the-rolling-stones
Lyrics: Print to hand out
Glee Version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUYUk5xUPD0
AV: Cohort, Culture, Socio-Economic activity (collect the
writing) – 20 min to write, 15 min to discuss, 25 min allclass discussion (hour total) – with mini-introductions
(up until end of class)
AV: Nature and nurture - lecture on genetic inheritance
and environment (1 hour)
JC: Evaluating children’s books – lecture on criteria and
overview of various stages of development to consider
Books to Begin on: ABCs and 123s (play Jackson Five
“ABC”)
Books for the Very Young:
Clement Hurd: Goodnight Moon
Eric Carle: The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Crockett Johnson: Harold and the Purple Crayon
JC: thesis statements, types of appeals and evidence –
go over assignment sheet for Paper #1 (how to write an
evaluation essay) – review of summary, paraphrase,
quoting (until lunch)
AV: Prenatal development "In the Womb" video (90
Psych Reading WriteUp #4 of Chapter 3
Week 3
Book Evaluation #1
over Sendak
12-Oct
Psych Reading WriteUp #5 of Chapter 4
14-Oct
Week 4
Rough draft of Paper
#1 due (bring two
copies to class)
Book Evaluation #2
over Bishop/Wiese
and Mosel (one
evaluation covering
both books as a set)
Lifespan Exam 1 over
Chapters 1-4
Lifespan: Chapter 3
21-Oct
Week 5
Psych Reading WriteUp #5 of Chapter 5
Book Evaluation #3
over the Cinderella
book you chose
Psych Reading WriteUp #7 of Chapter 6
Chapter 3:
Picturebooks
Maurice Sendak:
Where the Wild
Things Are
Infancy &
Toddlerhood
Controversial
Children’s books
Children’s: Chapter 3
Maurice Sendak:
Where the Wild
Things Are
Lifespan: Chapter 4
Children’s: Claire
Huchet Bishop and
Kurt Wiese: The Five
Chinese Brothers
Arlene Mosel (1968):
Tikki Tikki Tembo
19-Oct
Paper #1 due:
Evaluate a Picture
Book and tie to
Piaget
Infancy &
Toddlerhood
Lifespan: Chapter 5
Multiculturalism in
children’s books and
issues of
authenticity.
Lifespan
Exam #1 (90
minutes)
How to determine
the reading level of a
children’s book
Early
childhood
Chapter 4:
Traditional Literature
Mother Goose,
Cinderella, Bible
Stories, Grimm,
Fables
Early
childhood
Chapter 6: Poetry
Shel Silverstein
Children’s: Chapter 4
Bring a version of
Cinderella
Lifespan: Chapter 6
min.) plus discussion (until end of class)
AV: Brain development; Piaget's sensorimotor
development (stages 1-6, progression from motor
reflexes to controlled, intentional movements);
language development (up until lunch)
JC: Types of illustrations, picturebook considerations,
symbolism, personification, imagery Dr. Seuss: Green
Eggs and Ham – go over how Where the Wild Things
Are uses visuals – have them chart/draw the
progression/arc (after lunch)
JC: Multiculturalism in children’s books – who has the
“right” to write about various issues/people? Racist?
Stereotyping?
AV: Emotions and attachment - progression of
emotional development; psychosocial stages - trust vs.
mistrust, autonomy vs. shame and guilt; attachment to
the primary caregiver
JC: Controversial Children’s books and banned books?
What topics are not touched in children’s lit? (e.g.,
sexual abuse, divorce/fighting, drugs/alcohol,
disease/disorders) Developmentally – should these
topics be discussed?
AV: Exam
JC: Guest Speaker Tom Drummond? Children’s:
Knuffle Bunny (author’s name) PIE organizational
structure, thesis statements (after lunch)
JC: Cinderella
AV: Brain development (myelination); Piaget's
preoperational stage of cognitive development;
Vygotsky's social learning theory; theory of mind
AV: Development of emotional regulation, internalizing
and externalizing behaviors; prosocial, antisocial and
26-Oct
Children’s: Chapter 6
Psych Reading WriteUp #8 of Chapter 7
Lifespan: Chapter 7
Middle
childhood
Psych Reading WriteUp #9 of Chapter 8
Lifespan: Chapter 8
Middle
childhood
28-Oct
Week 6
2-Nov
Book Evaluation #4
over Paterson
Psych Reading WriteUp #10 of Chapter 9
Katherine Paterson:
Bridge to Terabithia
Lifespan: Chapter 9
Week 7
9-Nov
Week 8
16-Nov
Book Evaluation #5
over Blume
Psych Reading WriteUp #11 of Chapter 10
Judy Blume: Are you
there God, It's me
Margaret
Lifespan: Chapter 10
Chapter 7:
Contemporary
Realistic Fiction
Judy Blume: Are you
there God, It's me
Margaret
AV: Puberty - physiological, emotional, social aspects of
sexual maturation; sex education
JC: Discuss Blume book in light of Ann’s lecture
Adolescence
Peer Review Paper
#2
AV: Adolescent thought patterns leading to formal
operational thought; Identity development experimental identities, ethnic, sexual, vocational,
religious identity; issues related to identity formation
JC: Peer review Paper #2 (Chunking)
Rough draft of Paper
#2 due (bring two
copies)
Paper #2 due:
Diversity issue
include research
Sherman Alexie: The
Absolutely True Diary
of a Part-Time Indian
Adolescence
Sherman Alexie: The
Absolutely True Diary
of a Part-Time Indian
AV: Finish up discussion on adolescent psychosocial
development
JC: Discuss Alexie
Book Evaluation #6
over Alexie
Lifespan Exam #2
over Chapters 5-10
Children’s:
Chapter 5
Lifespan
Exam #2 (90
minutes)
Chapter 5: Modern
Fantasy
Lois Lowry: The Giver
AV: Exam
JC: Discuss The Giver and discuss Modern Fantasy
18-Nov
Week 9
AV: Self-concept; materialism; resilience & stress; the
peer group - friends, bullies & victims
JC: Discuss Bridge to Terabithia in light of Ann’s lecture
Adolescence
Children’s: Chapter 7
4-Nov
MLA
Documentation, PIE
organizational
structure, thesis
statements
Katherine Paterson:
Bridge to Terabithia
aggressive behaviors; parenting styles
JC: Write limericks, read “What a Day it was at School”
by Jack Prelustsky – bring Silverstein poems
AV: Developmental psychopathology; "The Medicated
Child" (60m)
JC: Go over Paper #2 assignment sheet
JC & AV: Aryana Bates comes from 1:00-2:20
Book Evaluation #7
over Lowry
Psych Reading WriteUp #12 of Chapter 11
Lois Lowry: The Giver
Lifespan: Chapter 11
Emerging
Adulthood
AV: Post-formal thought development; developing
intimacy; risk taking behaviors
23-Nov
Psych Reading WriteUp #13 of Chapters
12 & 13
Lifespan: Chapter 12
& 13
Adulthood
Children’s: Chapter 9
Week 10 Book Evaluation #8
over Harris
30-Nov
Psych Reading WriteUp #14 of Chapters
14 & 15
2-Dec
Rough Draft of Paper
#3 due (bring two
copies to class)
Book Evaluation #9
over Babbitt
Paper #3 due:
Adolescent project
due (Adolescent
character in
Week 11 literature)
7-Dec
9-Dec
Robie Harris: It’s
Perfectly Normal:
Changing Bodies,
Growing Up, Sex, and
Sexual Health
Lifespan: Chapters 14
&15
Late
adulthood
Natalie Babbitt: Tuck
Everlasting
JC: MLA Documentation – Documentation Olympics
(after lunch)
Chapter 9: Nonfiction AV: Parenthood (talking to kids about sex), senescence,
health habits, measuring health; Intelligence in
Robie Harris: It’s
adulthood and how it changes; Social clock,
Perfectly Normal:
generativity, niche picking; Maslow's hierarchy;
Changing Bodies,
Intimacy throughout adulthood - marriage, divorce,
Growing Up, Sex, and friendship; How we talk about divorce (e.g., failure,
Sexual Health
broken home…)
JC: Grammar, sentence level review stuff -- How to
English: Introductions write introductions and conclusions
and Conclusions,
grammar
Peer Review Paper
AV: Agism; Alzheimer's and dementia; Generativity and
#3
intimacy in late adulthood (1 hour)
Natalie Babbitt: Tuck
Everlasting
JC: Discuss Tuck Everlasting in light of Ann’s lecture on
aging (1-2 hours)
Peer Review of Paper #3 (1 hour)
Epilogue
Death &
Dying
E.B. White:
Charlotte’s Web
E.B. White:
Charlotte’s Web
AV: "Death in your culture" personal reflection and
class discussion; grief and bereavement; end-of-life
care and options (2 hours)
JC: Discuss Charlotte’s Web in light of Ann’s lecture on
death and dying
Psych Reading WriteUp #15 of Epilogue
Book Evaluation #10
over White
Lifespan Exam #3
over Chapters 11Epilogue
Lifespan
Exam #3 (90
minutes)
AV & JC: Do Course Evaluations, Debrief Course, then
take Exam last!