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

CONTENTS:
Types of Writing Assignments
Style and Format for Type Five Papers
APA style sheet
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Type Three/Four:

Toys and Games

1. Assignment:

Now that we have finished reading an essay on toys and games 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 comic book writer. Your assignment from the publisher is to write a 300 to 350 word description of the use of toys and games in childrenıs literature to be used to accompany drawings showing a dialogue between two character: a young child about age 6-10 and an animal (stuffed, live, or come-to-life). The editor has reminded you that the purpose of this issue of the comic book is to give young people solid information they can understand and that will not confuse them; therefore, you must have solid information that is easy to understand.

2. Purpose:

Practical/Informative. You are to write clearly, providing information that will help a sixth, seventh, or eighth grader understand the use of toys and games in stories are and why they are important. .

3. The Writer: You will be writing as if you were a comic book writer, writing a new educational comic for middle school English classes.

4. Audience:

Students in grades six, seven, or eight.

5. Form:

Conversation (dialogue or monologue), no more than 350 words for Type Three and no more than 500 words for Type Four.

6. FCAs:

  • Describe the use of toys and games in childrenıs stories and why they are important (40)
  • No excess words; write with nouns and verbs (30)
  • No long, confusing sentences; no groups of short, monotonous sentences (30)

7. Procedure:

  1. Review your notes to determine if you feel you have enough information to describe, generally, various uses of toys and games in childrenıs stories and why they are important. 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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