Colloquium on English - Research Institute for Waldorf Education
Colloquium on English - Research Institute for Waldorf Education
Colloquium on English - Research Institute for Waldorf Education
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novels Shane, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, A Tale of Two Cities. Uncle Tom’s<br />
Cabin, Black Like Me, To Kill a Mockingbird.<br />
Tenth grade: Classes focus <strong>on</strong> grammar, writing exercises, report writing,<br />
and works read in c<strong>on</strong>juncti<strong>on</strong> with main less<strong>on</strong> or separately. Reading may<br />
include Ramayana and Bhagavad-Gita, Gilgamesh, Greek, Egyptian, Finnish<br />
and Norse Mythology, the Old Testament, Beowulf, The S<strong>on</strong>g of Roland, Romantic<br />
and Modern Poetry, and the novels The Chosen, Siddhartha, and Zen<br />
Flesh, Zen B<strong>on</strong>es.<br />
Eleventh grade: Classes focus <strong>on</strong> essay writing and works read in c<strong>on</strong>juncti<strong>on</strong><br />
with main less<strong>on</strong> or separately. Reading may include the plays Midsummer<br />
Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, Hamlet, King<br />
Lear, The Tempest, Luther, Doctor Faustus, and the New Testament, Dante’s<br />
Divine Comedy, The Canterbury Tales, excerpts from The Prince and Utopia,<br />
as well as the novels The Robe, 1984, Brave New World, and the translated<br />
poem Parzival.<br />
Twelfth grade: Classes focus <strong>on</strong> essay and report writing, and works read in<br />
c<strong>on</strong>juncti<strong>on</strong> with main less<strong>on</strong> or separately. Reading may include a variety<br />
of modern poems and short stories, the plays The Night Thoreau Spent in<br />
Jail, The Crucible, and Faust, the novels Ordinary People, Cry the Beloved<br />
Country, The Scarlet Letter, Moby Dick (excerpts), One Day in the Life of Ivan<br />
Denisovich. Fathers and S<strong>on</strong>s or The Brothers Karamazov, Cannery Row. essays<br />
in The Selected Writings of Ralph Watdo Emers<strong>on</strong> and “Civil Disobedience”<br />
and Walden by Thoreau.