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This course will present opportunities for students to explore, interrogate, and reflect upon the experience of elite, residential learning. In the course of reading fiction
March 27, 2024
This course will present opportunities for students to explore, interrogate, and reflect upon the experience of elite, residential learning. In the course of reading fiction
Sarah Resnick in The New Yorker frames the idea of racial passing in an article on Brit Bennett’s novel, The Vanishing Half: “From the antebellum
This course starts with Jo March, the star of Little Women and the nineteenth century’s most famous literary girl, because Jo March had a problem.
The tutorial approach to learning is a very old method of education that allows students to explore ideas on their own terms. For this class,
Literature has an historical precedent of transmuting the realities of human existence into compelling narratives, thus accommodating an impulse articulated by Nietzsche when he wrote,
This course focuses on the ways in which in the past two centuries Black women writers have engaged with the intersection of Blackness and femaleness
America comprises a patchwork of ethnicities, races, religions, and personal experiences. As the country has grown over the past 250 years, individuals have struggled to
In this course, we will use a wide range of American short stories, poems, and novels to sample the many voices and issues that have
So often we arrive at new understanding through experience. Working from this premise, we will encounter a range of writers across the American experience whose
Empathetically envisioning the ideals of equitable societies and developing their distinctive, expressive voices as writers and thinkers, ninth graders explore familiar and unfamiliar lives and
An interdisciplinary, co-requisite course combining Honors US. History and eleventh-grade English, American Studies tracks intersecting threads of history, literature, art, and culture throughout the development
This one-term course offers seniors an opportunity to strengthen their academic writing before they head off to college. The course is designed not only to
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