English
Page to Screen: Film Adaptations
English
Page to Screen: Film Adaptations
Students read novels, short stories, essays and plays and study their transformation into films. Through these comparisons and a short study of key film techniques and perspectives such as auteur theory, students learn how to “read” a film. The...
Shakespeare Now
English
Shakespeare Now
Poet Ben Jonson said of Shakespeare that he “was not of his age, but for all time.” But what does a poet playwright, dead now some 400 years, have to say that speaks to this moment of the human experience? In this class we will read and discuss...
9th-Grade English
English
9th-Grade English
In this sequence of courses, the English Department introduces 9th-graders to the reading practices, discussion principles and writing strategies they will use and on which they will build throughout their four years of English study at Exeter. Students read,...
10th-Grade English
English
10th-Grade English
In this sequence of courses, readings introduce broader and more complex personal and social issues. The writing assignments – ranging from personal narratives and personal essays to letters, editorials, poetry projects and responses to the readings...
11th-Grade English
English
11th-Grade English
In this sequence of courses, written assignments tend to shift from personal narratives and essays to various forms of analysis in which the exploration and articulation of ideas increasingly influence content and structure. Readings continue to grow in...
12th-Grade English
English
12th-Grade English
In the final course in the required English sequence, writing assignments continue to focus on various forms of essay writing, culminating in a sustained exploration of a topic or theme–the Senior Meditation or an equivalent capstone assignment....
Creative Writing: Short Fiction
English
Creative Writing: Short Fiction
This writing-intensive course invites students to explore fiction as both readers and writers. The short stories and novels read in class will serve as models for students to create their own fictional work, introducing them to the craft and mechanics of...
Creative Writing: Poetry
English
Creative Writing: Poetry
“Poetry,” wrote Robert Frost, “is a way of taking life by the throat.” From its origins in oral tradition and tribal lore, as well as its role in incantatory spiritual practice, poetry has carried in its rhythms the deep longings of...
Creative Writing: Creative Nonfiction
English
Creative Writing: Creative Nonfiction
“The essay isn’t a retreat from the world but a way of encountering it,” writes Leslie Jamison in Best American Essays 2017. Throughout the term, we will explore the art of telling stories – ours and those of others – and learn...