LSC 300 L
Literature for Children
Department of Library Science and Instructional Technology
Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven CT

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Type Three/Four:

Sex Roles

1. Assignment:

Now that we have finished reading an essay on the views of sex roles in childrenıs stories as well as a number of rhymes and stories, your job is to put the information you have to use. This assignment requires you to imagine yourself as a guest speaker in a high school English class. Your assignment is to write a 300 to 350 word description of the views of sex roles represented in a group of childrenıs story that you will select (from Butler). The classroom teacher has reminded you that the purpose of this talk is to give young people the emotional experiences that create the sex typing that takes place in the stories you have chosen; therefore, you must have vivid examples that are easy to understand and sense.

2. Purpose:

Descriptive. You are to write clearly, providing vivid description that will help an eleventh or twelfth grader experience the sex typing in the stories. 3. The Writer: You will be writing as if you were an authoritative reader, guiding high school English classes through the emotional sex typing surrounding the stories you have chosen.

4. Audience:

Students in grades eleven and twelve.

5. Form:

Sensory/descriptive (the main intent is to create a dominant impression--so that the reader has the same impression as the writer/speaker), no more than 350 words for Type Three and no more than 500 words for Type Four.

6. FCAs:

  • Describe the use of masks and shadows in stories and how it used in the story you selected (40)
  • Introduction draws reader into the work (20)
  • All unrelated ideas have been edited out (20)
  • Points of reflection, rest, assimilation are marked by a paragraph (20)

7. Procedure:

  1. Review your notes to determine if you feel you have enough information to describe, generally, sex typing in childrenıs stories. If you feel you need more information, you can interview classmates and/or do research in the instructorıs website or in the library.
  2. Write a Type Three essay, due on Thursday.
  3. After you have entered your Type Three writing, read the entry immediately before yours and make suggestions for improving the writing, based on the focus correction areas (FCAs). [First person will need to read the last entry.] The Type Four essay is due Friday. Upload your writings to the Peer Editing / Threaded Discussion for the day due. Remember to make comments promptly on classmatesı writings so they can be used in rewriting to the Type Four assignment. Type Four writings are expected to be a substantial improvement over the Type Three assignment.

 

 

           

                       

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