Frequent creative writing assignments draw upon their own experience as well as their reading. Throughout the year students study vocabulary and grammar. The purpose of this course is to develop each student's reading and writing skills. Students write frequent short essays, creative assignments, and longer critical essays. Were Watching God , Shakespeare's Macbeth , poetry, and Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles .
Students work also on fundamental grammar skills and on developing vocabulary.
The English Department has designed these weekly courses to build and reinforce students' reading, writing, and testing skills through a study of grammar and vocabulary and through a variety of reading comprehension exercises. Fall Quest for Identity Individuals discover their own strengths and limitations by meeting physical and mental challenges, through social interaction and in solitary reflection. This course will focus on literature which explores the development of individuals responding to the influences of gender, race, class, and culture as they seek self-knowledge. Writing assignments will be both analytical and creative. Reading will include works of Kate Chopin, Joseph Conrad, Henrick Ibsen, Joy Kogawa, and selected poetry, short stories, and personal essays.