This rigorous and challenging course covers college material. Students intensively study specific literary works in major periods. Careful attention is given to close reading of literary texts, to the times that produced them, to understanding the transitions between historical periods, and to identifying the universal significance of each work. Students are expected to read complex texts with understanding and to write complex prose that communicates effectively with mature readers. Summer reading and extensive outside reading are expected.
Students develop strategies for writing in a variety of forms for a variety of audiences.
They review editing techniques, grammar, punctuation, and structure and develop the ability to revise and edit material. They learn the MLA Stylesheet format for research papers. Students write frequently and practice revising and editing a variety of formats. Creative Writing Class Number 046 Students write personal narratives based on their own experience and short fiction drawn from their imaginations. Students read major translated works published since the Renaissance representing various world regions and study major themes of world literature, such as truth, justice, fate and freewill, good and evil, alienation, and appearance and reality.