OFFERED 2024-2025
- Time: Tuesdays, 1:45 – 3:15 pm Eastern
- Tuition:
- Seminar with writing tutorial: $80 per month (10 months, August through May)
- Seminar only: $65 per month (10 months, August through May)
- Location: Signal Mountain, Tennessee
- Prerequisites: Writing II or equivalent writing skills
- Grades: 9-12 AND 8th grade strong readers
- Pairing: You can pair this course with United States History!
- Description: Through works of American literature, this course examines the great questions humans ask.
- Assessment:
- All: Students must complete all readings and daily-work/commonplacing as well as oral exams.
- Writing tutorial only: Each term, students compose one essay, one other written piece, and one project – choosing between an academic/artistic portfolio and a history-related handcraft. (Students in both history and literature courses only create one project per term.) In December and May, students participate in Defense Day by giving a brief presentation on one of their essays and responding to questions from the audience.
- Books Needed: Final book list will be posted by mid-summer but will include works the same as or similar to those listed below – Not all books will be required; choices will be available for several categories – (Hard copies are required; recommended editions/translations are listed below)
- Twain’s Huckleberry Finn
- Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Macbeth, King Lear, and/or As You Like It
- Scott’s Ivanhoe and poetry
- Shelley’s Frankenstein
- Dickens’ Nicholas Nickleby, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, or A Tale of Two Cities
- Bronte’s Jane Eyre or Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter
- Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
- Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird
- Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- Poetry of Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Tennyson
- Melville’s Moby Dick
Image – The Thames at Runnymede – (c) Grace Hughbanks, 2017
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