High School—Advanced Literature
This high school course challenges students to analyze texts dense with symbolism, archaic language, and layered meanings, requiring advanced, outside-the-box reading comprehension; through close reading, comparative analysis, and contextual research, learners decode Old English or Early Modern passages, interpret recurring motifs and allegories, and connect historical and cultural contexts to modern interpretations, while developing argumentation skills, vocabulary enrichment, and strategies for translating obscure phrasing into clear, evidence-based claims.