There are 2 questions.
YOU MUST CHOOSE ONE QUESTION FROM SECTION A AND THEN ANSWER THE COMPULSORY QUESTION FROM SECTION B.
The Section A question is worth 10%. The question in section B is worth 30%. The answer to section A should be approximately 400 words in length and to section B approximately 800-1000 words in length.
Readthequestionscarefullybeforebeginning yourresponses. Donothavelengthy introductions or include material that is not relevant to your answers. Include quotes from the book that provide relevant evidence for the question you are answering. In general, quotes should represent no more than 10% of the word length. Analysis is the focusofthis exercise–summariesofthetextshouldbekeptbrief.
You may use academic or other sources but these, and your primary texts, should be referenced in the normal APA style.
SECTION A
Answer ONE of the three questions in Section A
1. Take one of the approaches discussed in Reynold’s Children’s Literature: A Very Short Introduction, pages 42-59, and use it to analyse one picture book. Your answer should briefly describe the picture book but analysis is the key. Use one of the approaches to generate insights about the texts. (10%)
OR
2. Ethical questions have been connected to literature for children in a number of ways. Discuss one of the ethical questions we have encountered in the lectures or tutorials and apply this to one of the chapter books you have read. You may refer to the final chapter of Reynold’s Children’s Literature or other scholarly sources for guidance. (10%)
OR
3. Choose one of these areas and discuss in relationship to two illustrated books you have read: gender, race or postmodernism. DO NOT select any area used for your second assignment, the research essay. Use Reynold’s Children’s Literature or any other scholarly source to guide your discussion. (10%)
SECTION B Question 4 is COMPULSORY
4. Analyse three chapter books (fiction) you have chosen for younger readers (8-12 years old) in terms of any one of the topics we have covered this semester. These topics might include:
Identity
Gender
Race
Family
Ecological awareness / nature and the environment
Choose one issue that all three books have in common.
If you choose books that are addressed clearly by subject matter to young adults, you will
not pass this section of the exam.
You are advised against choosing more than one book from a series.
Your answer must convince the examiner that you have a thorough knowledge of all three texts. Importantly, you MAY NOT re-use material from your previous assignments or from another answer in this exam. Turnitin will detect re-used material. (30%)