Faculty of Educations

Model (No 12)

Course Specification : Children

2006 - 2007

Farabi Quality Management of Education and Learning - 21/11/2024

University :Mansoura University

Faculty :Faculty of Educations

Department :Department of Foreign Languages

1- Course data :-

2- Course aims :-

This course provides students with a foundation in the methods of detailed reading and analysis essential to an understanding of children literature in general and of children poetry in particular.

3- Course Learning Outcomes :-

4- Course contents :-

No	Topics	Week
1	What poetry is: An introduction
2	Poetic elements: What makes a poem a poem
3	Finding the meaning: the content
4	Finding the general meaning of the poem
5	Finding the detailed meaning of the poem
6	Finding the intention of the poet
7	Poetic devices: How the poet expresses himself
8	Sense devices: simile, metaphor, apostrophe, personification, etc.
9	Sound devices: alliteration, onomatopoeia, assonance, rhyme, rhythm, etc.
10	structural devices: repetition, contrast, illustration, etc.
11	Types of poetry: narrative, descriptive, reflective, etc.
12	A short poem for analysis
13	A long poem for analysis
14	How to sing a song
15	Test and exam sample

5- Teaching and learning methods :-

S	Method
	Listening to a poem in order to appreciate the sound effects: recorded material or instructor's reading
	Reading a poem individually
	Reading a poem in a small group: dividing the class into groups
	Using the blackboard, the vidio projector and the written text

6- Teaching and learning methods of disables :-

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7- Student assessment :-

A. Timing

B. Degree

8- List of books and references

S	Item	Type
1	• 6.1 - Beaty Jerome and Booth, Allison. The Norton Anthology to Literature. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2002.
2	• 6.2 - DiYanni, Robert. Literature: Reading Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. New York: McGrow-Hill Higher Education, 2002.
3	• 6.3 - Shakespeare, William. Shakespeare's Sonnets. Ed. Stephen Booth. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977.
4	• 6.4 - http://www.theteachersguide.com/ChildrensSongs.htm
5	• 6.5 - http://www.bartleby.com/
6	• 6.6 - http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/index.html

9- Matrix of knowledge and skills of the course

S	Content	Study week
	What poetry is: An introduction
	Poetic elements: What makes a poem a poem
	Finding the meaning: the content
	Finding the general meaning of the poem
	Finding the detailed meaning of the poem
	Finding the intention of the poet
	Poetic devices: How the poet expresses himself
	Sense devices: simile, metaphor, apostrophe, personification, etc.
	Sound devices: alliteration, onomatopoeia, assonance, rhyme, rhythm, etc.
	structural devices: repetition, contrast, illustration, etc.
	Types of poetry: narrative, descriptive, reflective, etc.
	A short poem for analysis
	A long poem for analysis
	How to sing a song
	Test and exam sample

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