English III
This full year course, required for all juniors, introduces students to major periods and genres of English literature, with points of emphasis from selected writers chosen by individual teachers. Writing assignments include various modes, but mastering the analytical essay remains paramount.

AP English III
This is an intensive, full year course for juniors in which students read, analyze and write about a variety of works of both prose and poetry. The course prepares students to take the Advanced Placement Literature exam.

Forms of Comedy
Fall 2007. Comedy takes a variety of forms and operates with a range of logics. It can be cruel or kind, conservative or radical, optimistic or despairing. In this course we will explore some comic modes-from literary classics to modern film-and examine a few theories of comedy. The reading list includes Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing; Stella Gibbon’s Cold Comfort Farm; P. G. Wodehouse's Right Ho, Jeeves; David Sedaris' Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim; Nick Hornby's High Fidelity; and Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People."

Madness in Literature
Spring 2008. This course will focus on the prevalent motif of madness in literature, especially the function of the madman and the madwoman in nineteenth and twentieth-century literature and culture. It will include a brief study of the history of hysteria and madness in western culture and consider how insanity and madness fit into our understanding of truth. The tentative reading list includes Nikolai Gogol, Diary of a Madman; Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie; Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr. Ripley; Susanna Keyson Girl, Interrupted; Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita; Alexander Pushkin, “The Queen of Spades,” The Bronze Horseman, and Mozart and Salieri.