week2 兒童文學 2015.9.24

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Winnie-The-Pooh
Winnie-the-Pooh, also called Pooh Bear, is a fictional anthropomorphic teddy bear created by English author A. A. Milne. 

course content:
Child Development and Literature

Onomatopoeia 擬聲字
is a word that phonetically imitates, resembles or suggests the source of the sound that it describes.
Example of onomatopoeia:
roar 獅吼聲
oink 豬
chirp 小鳥
croak 蛙

A.A Milne (nickname: Milk)
was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various children's poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work. Milne served in both World Wars, joining the British Army in World War I, and was a captain of the British Home Guard in World War II.


Thistle is the common name of a group of flowering plants characterized by leaves with sharp prickles on the margins, mostly in the familyAsteraceae. Prickles often occur all over the plant – on surfaces such as those of the stem and flat parts of leaves. These are an adaptation that protects the plant against herbivorous animals, discouraging them from feeding on the plant. Typically, an involucre with a clasping shape of a cup or urn subtends each of a thistle's flowerheads.


xixe →唸 [ɑɪ]
e.g: site, fine, time 
xaxe → 唸 [e]
e.g: name, pale
xix→ 唸 [I]
e.g: pig, sit, fit

Aesop's Fables 
introduction
the ass eating thistles
AN ASS was loaded with good provisions of several sorts, which, in time of harvest, he was carrying into the field for his master and the reapers to dine upon. On the way he met with a fine large thistle, and being very hungry, began to mumble it; which while he was doing, he entered into this reflection:—“How many greedy epicures would think themselves happy, amidst such a variety of delicate viands as I now carry! But to me this bitter, prickly thistle is more savory and relishing than the most exquisite and sumptuous banquet.”


The Bat, the Birds, and the Beasts
A GREAT conflict was about to come off between the Birds and the Beasts. When the two armies were collected together the Bat hesitated which to join. The Birds that passed his perch said: “Come with us”; but he said: “I am a Beast.” Later on, some Beasts who were passing underneath him looked up and said: “Come with us”; but he said: “I am a Bird.” Luckily at the last moment peace was made, and no battle took place, so the Bat came to the Birds and wished to join in the rejoicings, but they all turned against him and he had to fly away. He then went to the Beasts, but soon had to beat a retreat, or else they would have torn him to pieces. “Ah,” said the Bat, “I see now,


Song- Today  John Denver


lyric

Today while the blossoms still cling to the vine,
I'll taste your strawberries, I'll drink your sweet wine.
A million tomorrow shall all pass away, 'ere I forget all the joy that is mine, today.
I'll be a dandy and I'll be a rover, you'll know who I am by the songs that I sing.
I'll feast at your table, I'll sleep in your clover, who cares what tomorrow shall bring?

Today while the blossoms still cling to the vine,
I'll taste your strawberries, I'll drink your sweet wine.
A million tomorrow shall all pass away, 'ere I forget all the joy that is mine, today.
I can't be contented with yesterday's glory, I can't live on promises winter to spring.
Today is my moment, now is my story, I'll laugh and I'll cry and I'll sing.

Today while the blossoms still cling to the vine,
I'll taste your strawberries, I'll drink your sweet wine.
A million tomorrow shall all pass away, 'ere I forget all the joy that is mine, today.

nonsense
Nonsense is a communication, via speech, writing, or any other symbolic system, that lacks any coherent meaning. Sometimes in ordinary usage, nonsense is synonymous with absurdity or the ridiculous. Many poets, novelists and songwriters have used nonsense in their works, often creating entire works using it for reasons ranging from pure comic amusement or satire, to illustrating a point about language or reasoning. In the philosophy of language and philosophy of science,
e.g:
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously
beautiful soup



character (n) 方塊字、角色
acer (電腦)
acre 英畝

''Good gracious!'' 天啊(較好的說法)
''Oh my God'' (較低俗)
May I know your undergraduate major in? 畢業於哪個系所?

week1 兒童文學

children's Literature
Lists of fairy tale:
(a) picture book: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.
e.g: Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,
(b) 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.
(c) fables
 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.
(d) nursery rhyme
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)
Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary plot element, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic and magical creatures are common. Fantasy is generally distinguished from the genres of science fiction and horror by the expectation that it steers clear of scientific and macabre themes, respectively, though there is a great deal of overlap between the three, all of which are subgenres of speculative fiction.
(f) realistic fiction 
 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.^{[citation needed]} Literary realism, in contrast to idealism, attempts to represent familiar things as they are.
course content 課程內容
讀外文系要幹嘛?
 文章: 誰說讀外文系沒前途
閱讀古今中外聖賢經典，就像是站在巨人的肩膀看世界
The book to read is the one that makes you think，文學是讓我們思考而存在

誰說讀英文系沒前途？

桃園教甄題目
下列何找不是寓言的價值?
(A) 規範兒童良行
(B) 培養兒童文學創意(C) 啟發兒童思索哲理
(D) 提供兒童人生經驗答案

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.

Children's literature can be traced to stories and songs, part of a wideroral tradition, that adults shared with children before publishing existed. The development of early children's literature, before printing was invented, is difficult to trace. Even after printing became widespread, many classic "children's" tales were originally created for adults and later adapted for a younger audience. Since the 15th century, a large quantity of literature, often with a moral or religious message, has been aimed specifically at children. The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries became known as the "Golden Age of Children's Literature" as this period included the publication of many books acknowledged today as classic


Hans Christian Andersen often referred to in Scandinavia as H. C. Andersen; 2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, Andersen is best remembered for his fairy tales. Andersen's popularity is not limited to children; his stories, called eventyr in Danish or "fairy-tales" in English, express themes that transcend age and nationality.



Vocabulary
tabloid 八掛小報 
meaning: a newspaper whose pages, usually five columns wide, are about one-half the size of a standard-sized newspaper page.(for business or for pleasure)
illustrator 插畫家
meaning:  a ​person who ​draws ​pictures, ​especially for ​books
I'm black and blue all over my body. 我全身瘀青
Good gracious!
para- : besides, beyond, 
parable n. 字根： ball → throw 寓言，譬喻

parachute﹝`pærəʃut﹞n. 字根： chut → fall 降落傘

paradigm﹝`pærədIm﹞n. 字根： digm → example 模範，典範

paradox﹝`pærədɑks﹞n. 字根： dox → opinion 矛盾的話，矛盾 

paragon﹝`pærəɡɑn﹞n. 字根： gon → sharpen 模範，典型

paragraph﹝`pærəɡræf﹞n. 字根： graph → write 段落，節

parallel﹝`pærəlεl﹞n.&a.&v. 字根： allel → one another 平行，相似

paralyze﹝`pærəlaIz﹞v. 字根： ly → loose 使無力，癱瘓

paraphrase﹝`pærəfrez﹞v. 字根： phras → say 意譯，釋意

parasite﹝`pærəsaIt﹞n. 字根： sit → stand 寄生蟲，食客

Divergent