an investigation into Romeo and Juliet’s hometown.)
“Typical
American” by Gish Jen (novel)
“The
Little Foxes” play by Lillian Hellman (opens a window onto the greed and excess
of America’s first Gilded Age.)
Study
of the Harlem Renaissance, from the art of Archibald Motley, James Van Der Zee,
and Aaron Douglas to the literature of Nella Larsen, Langston Hughes, Zora
Neale Hurston, and others.
“We
All Should Be Feminists” essay by Chimamanda Gnozi Adichie
William Shakespeare by BP
CLASS
X
“Twelfth
Night” by William Shakespeare (romantic comedy)
“Pride
and Prejudice” by Jane Austen (novel)
“A
Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen (play)
“Their
Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston (novel)
“The
Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald (novel)
“Jasmine”
by Bharati Mukherjee (novel)
The essays by Rebecca Solnit, Pico Iyer, and Masha Gessen.
CLASS
XI
A
wide range of essays by American writers/essayists: Virginia Woolf, James
Baldwin, Joan Didion, Martin Luther King, Jr., Bruno Bettelheim, Barbara
Kingsolver, and David Foster Wallace.
The
mid-twentieth-century American poets, including Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath,
and Robert Lowell.
Advanced
English:
Work
of writers such as James Baldwin, Susan Sontag, Toni Morrison, Fran Leibowitz,
Joan Didion, Ta-Nahesi Coates, and Zadie Smith.
Advanced
English:
New
Narratives As humans, we have an innate desire to tell stories to make sense of
the world around us. But how we tell those stories is always evolving. What
innovative strategies are writers today using to talk about contemporary life,
which can feel increasingly fragmented as the boundaries between news, pop
culture, social media, and the self are collapsing? We will look at writers of
fiction, non-fiction, and poetry who are approaching the idea of narrative - of
storytelling - in unprecedented ways. We will study stories whose narrators
recede into the background or make themselves known in the margins; a memoir
comprised of many short stanzas; a novel, written as one long sentence or as a
series of letters. Students will try their hands at employing some of these
techniques to tell their own stories, in the process gaining a better
understanding of how new forms can help us write about that timeless subject:
our ordinary lives.
CLASS
XI
“All’s
Well That Ends Well” by William Shakespeare (comedy)
“As
I Lay Dying” William Faulkner (novel)
Two
contemporary plays, Penelope Skinner’s “The Village Bike” (2015) and Lynn
Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “Sweat” (2017).
Current
readings include Claudia Rankine’s lyric essay Citizen,
Emily
Dickinson’s poetry
Advanced
English:
Modern
International Literature “Red Velvet”, in which Bengali-British playwright
Lolita Chakrabarti explores nineteenth-century African-American actor Ira
Aldridge’s performance of Shakespeare’s Moorish hero, “Othello.” How does
Chakrabarti’s play negotiates the intersections of nationality, race, and class?
How does Aldridge navigate his multiple identities as American,
African-American, actor, and would-be Moor? These kinds of questions, along with those raised about gender, sexuality, and religion, will be explored. In
addition to Chakrabarti, authors may include Argentinian Manuel Puig, South
African Nadine Gordimer, Australian David Malouf, Japanese Yukio Mishima, and
Pakistani-American Daniyal Mueenuddin.
Advanced
English:
New
York City Literature When the Dutch first settled in New Amsterdam did they
know that this foothold in the New World would become a bustling metropolis
with the oh-so-modest claim to being the greatest city in the world? New York
has come a long way from Peter Stuyvesant, peg legs, and draft riots. In this
course, we will read writers such as E.B. White, Tom Wolfe, Herman Melville, José
Martí, Jay McInerney, Edwidge Danticat, Zora Neale Hurston, Renata Adler, John
Guare, and contemporary essayists from the New York Times and The New Yorker.
From these sources, we will explore the “Noo Yawk” attitude and its evolution
over the past two centuries into the city that never sleeps – and always
writes. NYC in Literature - you got a problem with that?
The Thinker Sculpture by Lenny Spiro
“Construction New York” is an extraordinary annual design competition and the most unique food charity in the world! It challenges teams of architects, engineers, and contractors to build sculptures made entirely out of unopened cans of food. The large-scale structures are placed on display at Brookfield Place (BFPL) and later donated to City Harvest for distribution to those in need.
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