English 9
To that end, students will read these Classical texts:
Iliad excerpts, Homer, trans. Fagles
Agamemnon, Aeschylus
Odyssey, Homer, trans. Fagles
Theban Plays, Sophocles (Oedipus Rex and Antigone)
In order to treat the universality of mythology and Classical literature, students in English 9 also read Jean Anouilh's twentieth-century Antigone as well as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. Our Shakespeare play for English 9 is Macbeth; we read it for its literary richness, of course, as well as for its relationship to Aristotle's Poetics.
In ninth grade students study formal grammar as well as common usage challenges in academic writing. They study vocabulary, including etymology, from context, and continue regular poetry recitation.
Iliad excerpts, Homer, trans. Fagles
Agamemnon, Aeschylus
Odyssey, Homer, trans. Fagles
Theban Plays, Sophocles (Oedipus Rex and Antigone)
In order to treat the universality of mythology and Classical literature, students in English 9 also read Jean Anouilh's twentieth-century Antigone as well as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. Our Shakespeare play for English 9 is Macbeth; we read it for its literary richness, of course, as well as for its relationship to Aristotle's Poetics.
In ninth grade students study formal grammar as well as common usage challenges in academic writing. They study vocabulary, including etymology, from context, and continue regular poetry recitation.