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Supp/Def Formal Exams SP1, 2017

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EL2047 Children's Literature Supp/Def Formal Exams SP1, 2017 Examination College of Arts, Society & Education

Examination Duration:

180 minutes

Reading Time:

10 minutes

Exam Conditions: This is a FORMAL exam. This is a CLOSED BOOK exam Calculator is NOT permitted in exam Notes are NOT permitted in exam English Dictionary NO/Bilingual Dictionary YES This exam paper MUST be handed in. Materials Permitted In The Exam Venue: (No electronic aids are permitted e.g. laptops, phones) none Materials To Be Supplied To Students: 1 x 18 Page Books Instructions To Students: Answer FOUR (4) questions. The value of each question is shown in parentheses.

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Supp/Def Formal Exams SP1, 2017

EL2047 Children's Literature

Value of Exam: 30%

Set Texts Module 1: The Coral Island; Treasure Island; Seven Little Australians; The Secret Garden Module 2: Charlotte’s Web; Nim’s Island; ‘Snow White’ (Brothers Grimm); ‘Beauty and the Beast’ (Jeanne-Marie de Beaumont); ‘The Little Mermaid’ (Hans Christian Andersen); ‘Cinderilla; or the Little Glass Slipper’ (Charles Perrault); Disney’s Beauty and the Beast; Disney’s The Little Mermaid. Module 3: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; A Wrinkle in Time; The Chrysalids Module 4: Kill the Possum; Nona and Me; The Rest of Us Just Live Here

PART A Question 1. (10 Marks = 5 marks each) Write short answers (of about 150 words in length, or about half a page) for each of the following questions. In each of your answers refer to lectures and at least one of the set texts (from any module), choosing a different set text for each answer. a) Our lectures have raised several historical ideas of the child. Describe at least one of these constructions, explaining how it assists in interpreting one of the set texts. b) If ‘genres’ are revealed by analysing the conventions in texts, explain the genre of one of our set texts, and comment on how this contributes to understanding it as a work of children’s or young adult fiction.

Question 2. (10 Marks = 2 marks per answer) Below are the titles of five fairy tales or Disney films. Explain how each of these texts contains a convention of fairy tales, as defined by Marina Warner (1994). Nominate a different convention for each of the texts. (Note: there are two (2) marks for each answer, including one mark for correctly naming a convention, and one mark for briefly explaining it. Be sure to keep your answers brief.) Conventions of fairy tales: 1. ‘Snow White’ by the Brothers Grimm 2. ‘Cinderilla; or The Little Glass Slipper’ by Charles Perrault 3. Beauty and the Beast (Walt Disney Pictures) 4. ‘The Little Mermaid’ by Hans Christian Andersen 5. The Little Mermaid (Walt Disney Pictures)

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EL2047 Children's Literature

PART B Note: • • •

In Part B you may only write on texts from Module 3 and/or 4. Also: do not write on texts you have discussed in Assessment Task 2.2 do not discuss the same texts in Questions 3 and 4 do not discuss a text discussed in Part A.

Question 3. (40 Marks) Choose one (1) of the following questions and write about 300-500 words (or one to one and half pages), with detailed reference to two (2) set texts: Topics – choose one: a) Science fiction is set apart from other forms of fiction by specific qualities. Describe at least three (3) of these qualities, referring to examples in two (2) of our set texts. b) Can we easily differentiate between ‘rites of passage’ and ‘coming-of-age’ in fiction for children or youth? Explain your answer referring to two (2) set texts. c) Name four (4) conventions of fantasy fiction that distinguish it from other genres, and explain how these occur in two (2) of our set texts. d) Explain as clearly as possible, giving at least four (4) reasons, how we might identify a text addressed to ‘juvenile’ readers, and a text suited to ‘Young Adult’ readers.

Question 4. (40 Marks) Choose one (1) of the following questions and write about 300-500 words (or one to one and half pages), and with detailed reference to two (2) set texts: Topics – choose one: a) The figure of the ‘outsider’, or sometimes its opposite, ‘the chosen one’ are archetypes in youth fiction. Discuss these figures with regard to two (2) of our set texts. b) Contemporary fiction for young adults is often framed around social issues that have currency in public debate about youth and/or society. Suggest where and how this occurs in two (2) of our texts. c) Which of our texts appear to channel social and/or gender ideology, and does it emerge as ‘deep’ or ‘surface’ ideology, as defined by Peter Hollindale? d) Conflict and/or disconnection occurs between youth and elders in all of our Young Adult fictions. Discuss these situations and the characters involved, and the resolutions in two of our texts. e) If, as Heather Scutter says, the getting of wisdom and ‘an integrated sense of identity’ represents ‘coming of age’ in Young Adult fiction, describe how this occurs in two of our set texts. f)

Analyse the role of ‘school’ in two (2) of our texts, giving attention to how school figures as setting, and as a source of experience and/or education for youth.

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