This is particularly important for full-year math, science, and language courses. In this reading-intensive class we will consider works of fiction by contemporary authors. The novels for the class will include Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth, The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx, Winter s Tale by Mark Helprin, and The Bone People by Keri Hulme. In addition to completing the reading for the course, students will also write weekly critical and creative papers. Writing is daily and will consist of half free verse and half the exploration of such forms such as the villanelle, sestina, and sonnet, among many others.
Emphasis is on craft.
Class time will be devoted to critiques of student work and readings of inspiring published models. At the end of the semester each member of the group will also write an introduction to a classmate s work. This reading and writing course will explore the sonnets and plays of William Shakespeare. Our text will be The Complete Pelican Shakespeare , and students will read seventeen or eighteen plays over the course of the semester. Students will write weekly or oftener, alternating between in-class exercises and short essays, with occasional longer papers.