英语

AP英语文学和写作课程的设计和教学重点是核心阅读以及现代和当代的选择，阐明和扩展了各种主题. AP英语文学和写作严格遵循AP英语文学和写作课程和考试描述(CED)中的要求。, including the fundamentals of 文学分析 and introductory college composition. Each week students 讨论 and engage in a variety of 写作 activities focusing on argumentation, 解释, 分析, 修辞al strategies, 博览会, 结构, 和风格. Students read and study a variety of novels, 戏剧, 诗, 还有从16世纪至今的短篇小说. The course focuses on the experience of literature, 解释 of literature, evaluation of literature, 和写作，以发展风格的成熟和复杂. 学生们通过大量的定时文章来练习写作, which are revised several times, 以及需要外部研究和MLA格式的较长论文. Students also practice oral communication 技能, 通过定期的课堂讨论，并充当讨论主持人.

African Literature--"West African Literature" introduces students to literature from West African nations, 比如尼日利亚, 塞内加尔, 和加纳, and explores how authors use literature as a form of activism against the remnants of European colonialism. 我们还将探讨西非作家如何利用文学创造新的未来和想象新的身份.

In this reading intensive course, we will read three classic works of 英语 literature by the Brontës: Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847), Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847), and Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848). In our 讨论ion of these texts, we will explore the world of early Victorian England, 深入了解社会对女性的期望和角色. 我们还将探讨出版界的局限性以及在出版过程中使用假名的必要性. This course explores the world of the Brontës, 他们的工作对英语和全球文学的影响, 以及社会在决定谁能创造艺术和谁不能创造艺术方面的影响. 此外, 我们将深入研究早期维多利亚时代的英国历史, role of women within Victorian society, 探究维多利亚时代为何继续吸引着读者.

This course asks students to consider what it means to write their own experience. How do we understand the narratives of our lives? 我们如何讲述自己的故事，既能满足真相，又能满足读者的叙事期望? 除了关于如何写自己的生活和意志的非小说类文本外，学生们还将阅读回忆录作家和自传作家的选段, over the course of the trimester, produce a single longform autobiographical essay.

This course is designed to encourage you to think about ways of communicating true stories using innovative, engaging techniques across a variety of media. We will read a variety of genres and forms, and you will have the opportunity to dig deeper into a style that appeals to you. Since this is a senior 英语 course, this class will also focus on reading, 写作, 说话, 以及在大学及以后取得成功所必需的倾听技巧. You will be asked to analyze and critique works by published creators as well as your peers, and to create your own nonfiction texts, in order to understand how methods of storytelling can affect the impact of the story itself.

The word “femininity,” like the word “woman,” is what theorists might call a floating signifier--it is so loaded with meaning, 它的意思是这么多(矛盾的)东西，这么多(令人困惑的)方式, 它几乎不再有任何固定的意义. 例如, women are expected to be both quiet and demure and garrulous and gossipy; a woman should be her husband’s domestic helpmeet and a modern #girlboss. This course will interrogate the pleasures and perils of femininity through theory, 个人叙述, 和小说. Sample texts include Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” and excerpts from John Berger’s 《全球十大网赌正规平台》和劳里·佩妮的《全球十大网赌正规平台》.

本课程将向学生介绍中世纪文学，让他们熟悉骑士浪漫的体裁和修辞. 骑士传奇, 包括亚瑟王的传说和骑士的故事, 女士们, 向导, 和怪物, is a staple of the Western literary tradition, and continues to this day. Students will learn about courtly love, formal social code that detailed proper courtly behavior. 宫廷爱情对中世纪文学产生了巨大的影响. 课程的核心将是全面阅读玛丽·德·法兰西的著作 布列塔尼人赖, and we will supplement our understanding of the genre with selections from Andreas Capellenus’ 德爱茉莉. 除了对文本进行细致的形式主义解读, we will also use a variety of theoretical approaches to understand this literature. 我们也可以看一下当代对骑士传奇的描述, either in popular novels or other media. Student assessment will include 写作 assignments (analytical papers) and class 讨论ion.

This course serves as an introduction to critical and literary theory through the lens of queer theory. 使用Jeffrey Nealon和Susan Searls Giroux的《十大彩票平台》, it begins with an introduction to some of the foundational concepts of theory and 哲学. 本课程旨在将一般的身份概念(特别是性别身份)历史化，并使我们对“文化”的理解变性,“身份,和“生物学”.’ We will read some of the foundational texts of the academic school of queer theory, including Gayle Rubin’s “The Traffic in Women: Notes on the Political Economy of Sex.”

科学 fiction is a literary genre that allows readers to imagine the future—to imagine progress. This course will examine the depiction of progress in (and through) science fiction, 包括几个短篇故事和小说的流派. At the end of the trimester, 学生将利用他们所学到的知识，以典型的科学写作为灵感，写一篇科幻短篇小说. Sample texts include Dawn by Octavia Butler, “Mono No Aware” by Ken Liu, and a selection of Ursula Le Guin short stories. 我们的阅读(或观看)在某种程度上取决于学生的兴趣.

This course will focus on the craft of storytelling. Our guiding questions will be how a writer composes a story and why stories are told and listened to. Throughout the trimester, as we read and 讨论 a number of key short stories, 我们将主要关注叙事的形式元素，如情节, 描述, 设置, 和节奏. In a sense, we will be taking apart these narrative machines to see how they work. 我们所读的每一个故事都至少有一个短篇写作作业，目的是激发想象力和练习小说写作的某些结构元素. Along with these weekly small 写作 assignments, we will each be working on one major short story. All of this 写作 will be shared with the rest of the class in workshop and peer review formats. By the end of the trimester, 我们都将成为更好的讲故事者，并丰富了我们对叙事在我们生活中所起的重要作用的欣赏.

这门课程将向学生介绍莎士比亚的英国, 特别关注伦敦剧院的状况, 性别, 政治, 和宗教, 以及那段历史如何帮助我们更全面地理解莎士比亚的作品. The first half of the trimester will be focused on the history; the second half will involve a close study of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The trimester will end with an introduction to New Historicism (also known as Cultural Poetics), 一种批判性探究的方法，强调文学生产和解释的社会和偶然性质. 学生将在学期结束时以新历史主义的风格做报告并写一篇研究论文.

现代 & 当代诗歌是建立在这样一种信念之上的:诗歌是一种不可替代的人类艺术，它的力量和乐趣可以为每个人所享受, and that we are all poets. 在这门课程中，我们将探索和考虑从现代时期(19世纪晚期- 20世纪50年代)到最当代诗人的各种写作选择. 在一起, 在我们自己的写作中, 我们将努力在用简洁的语言表达我们的想法方面取得进步, 使用一些现代和当代的技术.

问“生命的意义是什么”是人类的一个典型追求?在这门以阅读和讨论为基础的课程中, 学生们将探索作者们解决这个问题的方法, 特别是那些得出结论的作者，他们认为我们的存在可能没有一个预定的目的. While fiction will be our primary focus, 本课程还将阅读存在主义思想家的非虚构作品. 学生将被要求经常写反思和一篇长篇文章.

在有记载的历史中，鬼魂故事在文化和文明中的流行表明，有一些关于精神世界的假设是人类独有的. 这门以阅读密集和讨论为基础的课程是由鬼故事几乎总是关于生者的论点所驱动的, revealing anxieties about identity, 损失, 内存, 和死亡率. 学生还将探索影响后工业革命鬼故事的历史和社会因素.

“怪异文学”将怪异作为一种文学体裁进行探索, a genre of 写作 that recycles, 的比喻, and subverts tired tropes and cliches from horror, 幻想, and science fiction, as well as combines different literary styles together to make a wholly new form of storytelling.

In the early twentieth century, 曼哈顿北部的一个小社区, 纽约成为世界著名的黑人知识分子和艺术家的中心. 在本课程中, we will read fiction, 诗歌, 论文, 和戏剧——都是由非裔美国作家写的——来自美国历史上这个迷人而变革的时期.

本课程将对道德哲学作一个非常简短的介绍. 除了阅读古往今来的西方哲学, we'll 讨论 all manner of ethical quandaries, write several short 论文 about ethics, and write one longer exploration of a complex topic using multiple theoretical lenses.

卷轴叙事1 --"Introduction to Film" studies film as an artform with a language pulling from literature, 剧院, 摄影，以及塑造自己的艺术视角. By the end of the trimester, 学生将能够运用电影的基本概念进行分析, 解释, and write about cinema.

卷轴叙事II探索恐怖类型电影的历史. 从1920年德国表现主义无声电影《十大彩票平台》开始. 以当代恐怖电影《全球十大网赌正规平台》结束, 这门课分析了过去125年来恐怖片的演变. 此外, we will learn film terminology, such as mise-en-scène and cinematography, 我们会将其纳入我们的电影回应和分析论文中. By the end of the class, we will have foundational knowledge of cinematic 分析 and vocabulary. 卷轴叙事I不是这门课的必修课.

The purpose of this class is to analyze and enjoy ancient Greek drama (6th century BCE) in its theatrical, historical and social context. 除了, we will make prosopon (Greek theater masks), 写一篇文章, and create our own short 戏剧. While this may sound intimidating, you will be surprised by these forward thinking, 发人深思的, and enjoyable texts.

朋克是一种以音乐为基础的亚文化，起源于20世纪70年代, 几十年来演变成许多相关的亚文化. 这门课, 我们将阅读和讨论说明这些运动的成功和失败的非小说文本(重点是女权运动)。, 我们将以音乐为出发点，通过创造性的写作练习和论文来加强我们的写作技能.