| Day | Date | Topic | Reading | Assignment |
| Thurs. | Aug. 23 | Intro & Interpreting Literature/ Narrative/Folk Ballads & Fox | In Class | |
| Thurs. | Aug. 30 | Aesop/Apuleius Perrault & Fairy Tales | Tatar: LRRH; B & the Beast; Snow White; Bluebeard --- Propp & Shavit | Knowledge Topics Assigned |
| Mon. | Sept. 2 | Labor Day | ||
| Thurs. | Sept. 5 | Bunyan & the Bible | Pilgrim's Progress | |
| Thurs. | Sept. 12 | Chapbooks & Popular Literature | Rapunzel & Bettelheim - Darnton & Warner (Tartar) | |
| Thurs. | Sept. 19 | Nonsense & Literature: Carroll & Lear | Alice in Wonderland | |
| Thurs. | Sept. 26 | Girls & Boys: Gender, Class, & Sexuality | Secret Garden & "Goblin Market" | |
| Thurs. | Oct. 3 | The Imperial Motive in England: Power | Just So Stories & excerpts from Haggard | |
| Thurs. | Oct. 10 | The world of Peter Pan | Peter Pan & The Case of Peter Pan | |
| Thurs. | Oct. 17 | The Emerging XXth Century | Wizard of Oz excerpts - Twain excerpts -Zipes | Paper 1 Due |
| Thurs. | Oct. 24 | Picture Books/Instructional Books/& Ideology | Mike Mulligan and Where the Wild Things Are | |
| Thurs. | Oct. 31 | Writing and "the other" | The People Could Fly | |
| Thurs. | Nov. 7 | The Immigrant Experience: Looking Forward & Backward | A Single Shard | |
| Thurs. | Nov. 14 | The Harry Potter phenomenon | Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone | |
| Thurs. | Nov. 21 | Synthesis: | Handouts | |
| Thurs. | Nov. 28 | Thanksgiving | Thanksgiving | Thanksgiving |
| Thurs. | Dec. 5 | Review & Direction | Term Paper |