Critical Analysis Paper Assignment

Critical Analysis Paper Guideline (25 Points) (Undergraduate Children’s Literature-404)

Your 5 to 6-page Critical Analysis Paper will be based on Parker Rhodes Jewell’s award winning literature texts, Ghost Boys that you will read and discuss in Session 5: Race, Resistance and Liberation. Below are the components of the critical analysis paper and guiding questions:

Overall Paper Organization, Structure, and Flow (5 Points)

NOTE: Please do not list the guiding questions below in the body of your paper or simply answer them one after the other without creating a deep analysis, sound argument, and connecting ideas. The questions are to be used as a guide as you conceptualize and shape your paper. Pease follow APA Guidelines for both intext citations and reference list.

Critical Analysis Paper Assignment

Text Summary & Analytical Framing of Critical Analysis Paper (5 points)

Text Summary

In brief, what is the text about?

Analytical Framing (Critical Literacy)

Using the critical literacy, Analyze the protagonist’s experiences from 2 of the following identity markers: 1) gender 2) race/culture 3) class 4) religion 5) sexuality. NOTE: Please choose direct text excerpts in your analysis to support your argument.

• How does the first identity marker you selected shape the protagonists’ lived experiences and circumstances throughout the texts?
• How does the second identity marker you selected shape the protagonists’ lived experiences and circumstances throughout the texts?
• How do the intersection of both the first and second identity markers shape the protagonists experience?

Reader Response (5 Points)

• In what ways might your own personal identities (raced, gendered, classed, cultural etc) have influenced how you interpret the overall text and the specific experiences of the characters?
• What tensions did you grapple with while reading this texts (What questions were you left with after reading this text? How did you negotiate these tensions?)
• What textual features (content, writing style, language style etc.) did you connect with? Why? What textual features (content, writing style, language style etc.) did you not connect with in the text? Why?
• Did you read this text from an efferent or aesthetic stance? Why did you read this text from that particular stance?
• How might this text have disrupted or conformed with your own notion of the childhood age?

  The Politics of Literacy & The Child Reader (5 Points)

• Why are children that read certain types of texts considered non-readers while children that read texts considered “mainstream” are viewed as readers?
• Why specifically are texts like Ghost Boy often demonized while other types of texts are not? Why might this text appeal to children readers? What features of the text might they draw upon? How might text like Ghost Boy be instrumental in the shaping of children’s identities?
• Paulo Freire mentions that “when we read the word, we read the world.” With that in mind, how does this text mirror current social issues?

  Please be certain to include a reference section

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