English 12
The study of literature and composition in the senior year is intended to be intensive. Class discussions focus on a critical eye in reading. Students will regularly be required to compose analytical essays as well as creative responses to the literature studied. Works studied include: Kafka, The Metamorphosis; Sound and Sense - An Introduction To Poetry; Shelley, Frankenstein; Gardner, Grendel; Shakespeare, Hamlet, Tempest; Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher; McCarthy, The Road; and Beowulf: A Verse Translation.