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 * Welcome to Our LME 518 Course Wiki!**

**This Wiki will be used for the Assignment on Thematic Literature**

Getting Started
Each page in this Wiki will cover one topic listed in the course syllabus. You have the following responsibilities in this WiKi.
 * 1) Each team must take responsibility for entering a descriptive narrative for one Wiki page and a narrative for each subtopic.
 * 2) Use proper citation in all narratives.
 * 3) Each team must add material titles with annotation or review to each subtopic on their wiki page. This includes **books, periodicals, non-print media, websites**, etc. If you use annotations or reviews from a published source they must be cited.
 * 4) Sign all submissions to this Wiki

Click on Pages and Files at the left. Name the page with your Topic, click create. Then you will be presented with your page, click edit, in the upper right, then start adding your content. You can save and then come back to edit as you want to.
 * Start your Wiki Page**


 * This is the Wiki outline **

a. The changing family (1) Family relationships (2) Divorce and single parent families (3) Adult irresponsibility (4) The uninvolved adult/parent (5) Sibling rivalry (6) Parent-child conflict

b. Growth and development (1) Biology of sex (2) Maturation (3) Emotional implications (4) Changing social views of sex and sexuality

c. The aged in children's literature (1) Stereotypes of folk literature (2) Elderly parents (3) Current status (4) Incompetence/ evilness of the elderly (5) Wisdom/competency of the elderly (6) Relationships between young and old (7) Ageism--Age discrimination

d. Death (1) Nature of death (2) Confronting and dealing with death (3) Social attitudes

e. The physically and mentally disabled (1) Past portrayals (2) Stereotyping (3) Contemporary issues such as mainstreaming

f. Ethnic groups of the multicultural society (1) Some of the basic considerations and factors (a) Early treatment (b) Interracial relationships (c) Problems (d) Racism and prejudice (e Stereotypes (f) Pride and positive self-concept

(2) Black Americans (3) Native Americans (4) Asian Americans (5) Latino Americans (6) Jewish Americans (7) European Americans (8) Arab Americans

g. Gender roles (1) Gender roles in present and earlier children's literature (2) Stereotypes by role and occupation (3) Character development in gender portrayal

h. The environment and related issues (1) Pollution (2) Conservation (3) Sustainability

i. Treatment of violence (1) War and its alternatives (2) Rationale for violence

j. Humor (1) Picture story books (2) Adolescent works (3) Nonprint media