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
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APA style sheet
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Type Three/Four:

Fools

1. Assignment:

Now that we have finished reading an essay on fools 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 teacher instructing high school students in the art of babysitting. Your lesson plan calls for you to give the class a 300 to 350 word description of how stories featuring fools can create be used to entertain a child during fussy times. Your notes in your plan book remind you that the purpose of this lesson is to give teenage babysitters 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 high school students understand how characters (fools) can be used to distract otherwise fussy children and why characteristics of the character are important in choosing a story.

3. The Writer: You will be writing as if you were a teacher, writing a summary review [handout] of a lesson for high school child care classes.

4. Audience:

Students in grades nine, ten, or eleven.

5. Form:

Practical/informative (main intent is to provide clear information), no more than 350 words for Type Three and no more than 500 words for Type Four.

6. FCAs:

  • Describe the use of fools in childrenıs stories and their important in setting a mood (40)
  • Each paragraph has a main point of focus (20)
  • Opening gives clear state of thesis and hints at its importance (20)
  • Ending summarizes the discussion using a new example (20)

7. Procedure:

  1. Review your notes to determine if you feel you have enough information to describe, generally, the use of fools in childrenıs stories and their important in setting a mood. 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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