English Children's Literature (Week One)
1.What is that? What is that for? Why should we care?
(1)Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are enjoyed by children. Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended age of the reader.
《A mother reads to her children, depicted by Jessie Willcox Smith in a cover illustration of a volume of fairy tales written in the mid to late 19th century.》
《The Little Prince (1943) is one of the best-selling books ever published.
(a) picture books:
A picture book combines visual and verbal narratives in a book format, most often aimed at young children. The images in picture books use a range of media such as oil paints, acrylics, watercolor, and pencil, among others.
(b) fairy tales:
A fairy tale is a type of short story that typically features European folkloric fantasy characters, such as dwarves, elves, fairies, giants, gnomes, goblins, mermaids, trolls, or witches, and usually magic or enchantments. Fairy tales may be distinguished from other folk narratives such as legends (which generally involve belief in the veracity of the events described) and explicitly moral tales, including beast fables.
(c) fables:
Fable is a literary genre: a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized (given human qualities, such as verbal communication) and that illustrates or leads to an interpretation of a moral lesson, which may at the end be added explicitly as a pithy maxim.
A fable differs from a parable in that the latter excludes animals, plants, inanimate objects, and forces of nature as actors that assume speech or other powers of humankind.
(d) nursery rhymes:
A nursery rhyme is a traditional poem or song for young children in Britain and many other countries, but usage only dates from the late 18th/early 19th century and in North America the term Mother Goose Rhymes, introduced in the mid-1700s, is still often used.
(e) Fantasy/Adventure (genre):
Adventure fiction is a genre of fiction in which an adventure, an exciting undertaking involving risk and physical danger, forms the main storyline.
(f) realistic fiction (Initiation, Quest/Journey and Bildungsroman):
Literary realism is part of the realist art movement beginning with mid nineteenth-century French literature (Stendhal), and Russian literature (Alexander Pushkin) and extending to the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Literary realism, in contrast to idealism, attempts to represent familiar things as they are.
2.Text Book: Charlotte's Web
Author: E. B. White
Illustrator: Garth Williams
Country: United States
Language: English
Genre: Children's
Publisher: Harper & Brothers
Publication date: 1952
Pages: 192 pp
3.有關"寓言"的英文字
(1)parable
- 耶穌派的東西
- para-平行並列
- A parable is a succinct, didactic story, in prose or verse, which illustrates one or more instructive lessons or principles. It differs from a fable in that fables employ animals, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature as characters, whereas parables have human characters. A parable is a type of analogy.
(2)allegory
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As a literary device, an allegory in its most general sense is an extended metaphor. Allegory has been used widely throughout history in all forms of art, largely because it can readily illustrate complex ideas and concepts in ways that are comprehensible or striking to its viewers, readers, or listeners.
- political allegory: Dystopia-《Divergent》《The Hunger Games》《The Maze Runner》《The Giver》
(3)fable
- Fable is a literary genre: a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized (given human qualities, such as verbal communication) and that illustrates or leads to an interpretation of a moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly as a pithy maxim.
- A fable differs from a parable in that the latter excludes animals, plants, inanimate objects, and forces of nature as actors that assume speech or other powers of humankind.
- Aesop's fable→ short animal tale with moral lessons
4. Hans Christian Andersen-Fairy Tales and Stories
- 跨越不過階級, 沒有讚美自己→安慰平凡如你我的靈魂
- The Little Mermaid
- The Ugly Duckling
- The Princess and the Pea
5. A Critical Handbook of Children's Literature
- About this product
- The text focuses on classic and recent children’s books that showcase positive examples of the literary elements, formats, and genres that organize the field of children’s literature. Definitions of literary terms are interwoven throughout in-depth discussions of plot, character, theme, setting, point of view, and style and tone. Sound criteria for assessing the merit of children’s books; chapters on poetry, biography, and informational books; a section on censorship; and thinking multiculturally combine to make this an important revision. New to this edition are fresh examples of quality children’s literature infused with many multicultural titles; an in-depth discussion of the complex relationship between pictures and text in contemporary picturebooks; descriptions of graphic and verse novels; discussions of new issues, such as the risky topics addressed in some books for children, and suggestions of ways to use picturebooks created for older readers. Wrapping up this edition is a discussion of ways to engage readers through read alouds and interactive discussions.
- Features
- References to Charlotte’s Web appear throughout to help readers understand critical distinctions by using the context of a familiar, much-loved book.
- The critical methods used in examining literature are discussed to show readers how to select appropriate children’s books.
- Extensive examples of literature written by authors from a variety of cultures are included.
- Material on reading aloud to children emphasizes its importance as a key element in children’s reading.
6. 其他相關知識補充
1.桃園市104年度國民小學及幼兒園教師聯合甄選筆試試卷
Q:下列何者不是「寓言」的價值?
(A)規範兒童良好行為 (B)培養兒童文學創意
(C)放發兒童思索哲理 (D)提供兒童人生經驗
2.很多寓言故事的主角都單親
EX: 彼得兔的爸爸被農夫麥奎格（McGregor）夫婦給吃掉了
3. Tabloid: 八卦小報
小報（tabloid）一詞源自刻寫版（tablet），原意是指篇幅為大型報紙一半的小開本報紙。
The word "tabloid" comes from the name given by the London-based pharmaceutical company Burroughs Wellcome & Co. to the compressed tablets they marketed as "Tabloid" pills in the late 1880s. The connotation of tabloid was soon applied to other small compressed items. A 1902 item in London's Westminister Gazette boted, "The proprietor intends to give in tabloid form all the news printed by other journals." Thus "tabloid journalism" in 1901 originally meant a paper that condensed stories into a simplified, easily absorbed format. The term preceded the 1918 reference to smaller sheet newspapers that contained the condensed stories.
4. For business or for pleasure? 來洽公還是來玩的?
5. -tive結尾→可當(adj)(n)
(adj) destructive 毀滅性的, creative 創造性的, objective 客觀的
(n) relative親戚, representative代表, detective偵探
6. Goodness gracious
Goodness gracious is an English interjection expressing awe, dismay, excitement, or shock.
Ex: 1. Goodness gracious, Tommy, clean up that room!
2. Goodness gracious, if you don't just look beautiful today, honey!
→更多關於goodness gracious用法的voicetube影片
7. 小王子最新電影上映!
The Little Prince (2015) 10/23 Released in Taiwan
Director: Mark Osborne
Writers: Irena Brignull (screenplay), Bob Persichetti (screenplay), 1 more credit »
Stars: Rachel McAdams, Benicio Del Toro, James Franco | See full cast and crew »
8.讀外文系要幹嘛?
- 奚永慧教授-勇敢走自己的路
青出於藍，名師出高徒
奚教授回憶起當年，不禁特別強調「良師」在學習過程中佔有不可輕忽的影響力。除了之前提到的幾位老師外，還有周樹華教授的英聽課，也讓奚教授記憶深刻。「當時真的被操得很慘，老師要求我們回家做錄音帶聽寫，錄給我們的都是英美人士正常速度的談話，我們常常連聽十幾遍依然霧煞煞，吃足了苦頭，但因為聽很多遍，也背進腦袋啦！所以每當老師解釋完後，大家都恍然大悟，印象深刻。」
另外，陳己香教授教導大家如何作英文筆記，也帶來釵h學習上的刺激。陳教授會跟學生一起聽一起記，然後再進行比較，這樣比對式學習的過程，帶給奚教授很大的成長。這些都是他在英文學習方面很感謝的恩師！
因為興趣，因為喜歡，早就想當老師的奚教授，至今有很多教學經驗，教過各式各樣的學生，有大學、升學補習班、美語班、家教等。他發現，目前的大學生在學習上有趨於兩極化的現象。有些缺少強烈的學習動機，懶得作筆記，以為隨便聽聽就會了﹔當然也有很想學很努力學習的學生。「不過，就算有再好的老師，沒有求知慾強的學生，也無法燃起火花的！真正的學習得靠自己。」
有夢，人生才美
經常和大學生接觸的奚教授有感而發說：「現在的大學生，常常缺乏夢想。」釵h學生口口聲聲說找不到自己的目標，不知道未來何去何從，老師說這不是學生素質降低，而是少了夢想，對自己的潛力了解也不夠。人生有無限的可能，也因有夢想而偉大，有夢想就有衝勁，就能產生動力，才能持續不斷地努力，發揮潛力，依著計畫朝向目標邁進，創造美麗的人生。廿一世紀是以知識與專業為主的知識經濟時代，奚教授建議同學們：「同學未來最大的資產就是知識和專業能力，最大的敵人是時間，最大的挑戰是自制的能力。所以大家要儘早學會把握時間，好好利用各種機會充實自己，不論做什麼事都要自問：我從這裡面學到或得到了什麼？即使休閒娛樂，也應該是以調劑身心為目的，而不是隨便打發時間。還要培養自制的能力，懂得要先犧牲享受，才能享受犧牲的道理。」生為台灣未來希望的大學生，要眼光放遠心胸放大，做好時間規劃，將學生時代的「學習奶牷v踏實建立習慣，課業優先，社團和愛情抱持著學習的心態，相輔相成，內外兼冶，一定會有更美的未來。
- 文學的意義是什麼？
羅密歐與茱麗葉、哈姆雷特、希臘羅馬神話……世界上有無數經典的文學名著，但文學到底有什麼好？快來看看這部影片，告訴我們文學的益處。
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