Note: for some of the secondary readings, you’ll need to refer to “Some Secondary Sources” on Acorn for further details.

SEPTEMBER

W 5 Intro--metafiction crash course & exploring picturebooks: Anthony Browne & Lauren Child

W 12 Primary Text: The Hounds of the Morrigan (pgs 1-250)

Secondary Texts: Waugh Metafiction Ch.1 & 2 AND M. Mackey “Metafiction for Beginners” Children’s Literature in Education 21.3 (1990) http://www.springerlink.com/content/h677764p041q8212/

W 19 Primary Text: The Hounds of the Morrigan cont’d

                                     AND Wolves

Secondary Texts: Waugh Metafiction Ch. 3 & Robyn McCallum “Very Advanced Texts: Metafictions and Experimental Work.”

W 26 Primary Text:  Black & White AND Good Omens (In the beginning--Thursday)

         Secondary Texts: Waugh Metafiction Ch. 4 & 5

OCTOBER

W 3 Primary Text: Good Omens cont’d AND The Getaway

W 10 Primary Text: Fire & Hemlock (all of it)

            ESSAY PROPOSAL & Tentative Works Cited DUE

W 17 Primary Text: Fire & Hemlock cont’d AND The Princess Bride (up to pt. 5)

W 24 Primary Text: The Princess Bride cont’d

W 31 Primary Text: The Unwritten vol. 1 & 2

         Secondary Texts:  Orion Ussner Kidder “Show and Tell: Notes Towards a Theory of Metacomics”; M. Thomas Inge "Form and Function in Metacomics: Self-Reflexivity in the Comic Strips."

NOVEMBER

W 7 Primary Text: The Unwritten vol. 3, 4, 5

W 14 Metafiction Projects

W 21 Pop-Up Books Primary Text: The Incredible Book Eating Boy

W 28 Pop-Up Books cont’d & Grand Conclusions plus evaluations RESEARCH ESSAY DUE @ 16:00 hrs

DECEMBER

one fun three hour exam tbA