OFFERED 2024-2025
- Time and Tuition:
- 2024-2025: Thursdays, 1:45 – 3:15 pm Eastern
- 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
- Grades: 9-12 AND 8th grade strong readers
- Prerequisites: Writing II or equivalent writing skills OR take Writing II in addition to this course
- Pairing: You can pair this course with Medieval History!
- Description: Through works of Medieval and Renaissance 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, tutorial 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 be similar to the one below (Hard copies are required; recommended editions/translations are listed below)
- Beowulf — (Tolkien translation, ISBN: 9780544442788) <= Needed for the first week of class
- Song of Roland — (Sayers translation, ISBN: 9780140440751)
- Dante – Divine Comedy – (Recommended: Esolen translation, ISBNs listed below)
- Inferno (ISBN: 9780345483577)
- Purgatory (ISBN: 9780812971255)
- Paradise (ISBN: 9780812977264)
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Tolkien translation, ISBN: 9780358652977)
- Chaucer — Canterbury Tales (Recommended: Coghill translation, ISBN: 9780140424386)
- Spenser — The Faerie Queene, Book 1 (Recommended: Maynard editor, ISBN: 9781885767394)
- Shakespeare — Henry V (Recommended: Folger edition, ISBN: 9780743484879)
- Optional, but highly recommended: Shakespeare’s Richard II and Henry IV Parts 1 and 2
- Optional, but highly recommended: Green, King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table – Puffin Classics, ISBN: 9780141321011 – We will not be reading this formally, but we will study Arthurian legend at the start of class; if you would like to follow along, this is the book I will be using. It will also be handy for reference for both Medieval Literature and Medieval History. (As an added bonus, Green was an Inkling, along with Lewis and Tolkien.)
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