American Lit Re-lit: Part 1

Your junior year in high school contained sock hops and movie dates; dragging the Main and pajama parties; and, oh, by the way, American Lit in English class. Do you recall any of those authors and their works? Now that you’re not so distracted, you have a chance to revisit the literature (both boring and great) that you didn’t appreciate at the time. Marcy and Germaine, two “seasoned” English teachers, will present the highlights of American literature in a projected year-long course, beginning (in the first quarter) with Colonial sermons and Founding Fathers' essays, progressing through the New England writers—Thoreau, Emerson and the boys (plus Louisa!)—on to Longfellow, frontier literature, Indian folklore, then covering Civil War stories and the great Mark Twain.