Upper School Program Guide for 2022-2023

subject in regard to questions of courage, duty and patriotism, as well as traumatic violence, suffering and loss. By closely engaging with the poetry and prose of this genre, students further develop their critical reading, writing and thinking skills.

(Semester, .50 credit) Offered 2022–2023 Women’s Literature This course explores literature written by and about women throughout the ages and throughout the world. Using novels, short stories, plays and poems, students investigate the journey of self-discovery of various female authors and characters, from Biblical times through the post-apocalyptic world, from the United States to Europe, and from the Middle East to Latin America. Students learn how the authors’ cultures impeded, supported and impacted their journeys. Students analyze these themes in both informal and formal writing assignments, and undertake a final project relating to the style and content of the literature studied. (Semester, .50 credit) Offered 2022–2023 Poetry According to Frances Mayes, “Some pull of inner necessity draws the poet to the page, whether to explore a problem, pursue a rhythm, break apart logic, express an emotion, tell a story or simply to sing.” This course is for students who wish to study poetry not only as readers, but also as writers bent on exploring that inner necessity. Through a workshop format, students investigate poetry from different periods and cultures, develop and apply their understanding of meter and poetic form, hear poetry read aloud, perform poetry in a coffee house format, write analytically about poetry studied individually and in groups and create poems of their own through various workshop techniques. This course is designed to reinforce and improve upon the skills that students learned in previous English courses, including active reading, oral presentations, formal analytical writing and small group work. (Semester, .50 credit) Offered 2022–2023 Reading and Writing Intensive: Fiction - Honors To understand how an engine works, a mechanic must take it apart, examine its components and reassemble it. Learning to write well functions the same way. In this course, students will read, write and analyze different forms of fiction to better understand how literature can persuade, inspire and move its readers—a skill set that is essential to crafting compelling communication of all types. Students will learn to read great works of fiction with a writer’s eye so that they can emulate and explicate novels and short stories. They will also select a mentor author to research, analyze and present on. By the end of the course, students will have written various forms of short fiction and craft analyses, culminating in a polished portfolio. Along with their reading 28