English
When students begin English classes at Â鶹ÊÓƵ, they feel a purposeful move toward the deep study of literature as art and the production of clear, critical writing. The curriculum directs students to explore the how and why of the meaning they find in the texts we read. Over the course of their four years, students take increasing independence in formulating answers to questions about the texts and, eventually, the questions themselves. At all levels, students in English classes are encouraged to take risks in their thinking.
Freshmen
- Honors World Literature
Sophomores
- Honors American Literature
Juniors
- Honors Close Reading & Critical Writing
Senior Honors Seminars
- Artificial Intelligence
- Between Two Wars: Literary Modernism
- Burn, Baby, Burn: Discourses on the Most Frequently Banned Books in the U.S.
- The Catholic Imagination
- Dante's Divine Comedy
- Graphic Novels
- The Importance of Being Funny
- Knights, Magic, and Monsters
- Literary Adaptations: From Page to Screen
- Melville's Moby Dick
- Nabokov's Terrifying Beauty
- The Past, Present, and Uncertain Future of Feminism
- Political Literature and Utopianism
- Reading Television: The Wire
- Theater in New York
- This Is the End: Confrontations With Mortality in Literature
- Writing About Oneself: Personal Essays
- Writing Social Justice