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"Latin has an enduring commitment to active learning. This is apparent from the beginning
of Upper School, when all ninth grade Humanities students not only read and analyze
historical texts and great works of western literature, but they also create great
art and become a theater company to perform a play."
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The study of English is at the core of a Latin education, and the course
offerings span the traditional and the modern. Over the four years of
required courses most students will partake of both ends of the spectrum,
with many in between. The expansive list of electives resembles a college
catalog, so varied and focused. Each English class will help you learn to
read with intelligence, to listen with sensitivity, to contribute with confidence,
and to write with clarity.
Beginning with the interdisciplinary Humanities course in ninth grade, students
move through a required 10th grade course and a final two years in which they
choose their own paths. Most students take AP English language and composition and AP English
literature and composition exams during the junior and senior years. Typically, our students'
performance on these exams equals or surpasses the performance of students
who take an AP English class at other schools.
SELECTED ENGLISH COURSES (* denotes interdepartmental offerings):
Humanities*
English 10
American Civilization*
European Civilization*
Great American Novels
Great English Novels
Masterpieces of World Literature
The Iliad and the Bible
Can the Narrator Be Trusted?
Nineteenth Century Literature by Women
Beyond Realism
Modern Drama
Chinese Literature
The Hero and the Shadow
Chicago Literature
Manhattan: City of Glass
Sunshine and Noir: Los Angeles Literature
Faulkner and O'Connor
Giving Voice
Philosophy and Literature
Poetry: From the Renaissance to Slam
Nature in American Literature
Rebellion from Milton to Camus
The Superhuman in Literature
African American Literature: Slave Narratives
Latin-American Literature
Shakespeare
Cultural Clashes
Disunited Kingdom: Contemporary British Literature
Senior Writing Seminar
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