CLASSES

2026/2027 

English Language Classics

 

The goals of the class are:

• to expose students to great writing from different times and places,

• to think critically about what we read and what constitutes great writing,

• to explore ideas that are raised in literature and relate them to our own experience, 

• to understand ourselves and others who are similar and different from ourselves,

• to learn the different techniques by which authors express their ideas,

• to express our own ideas precisely and vividly, both orally and in writing,

• to learn, practice and improve different types of writing, and

• to have fun reading and discussing literature.

 

Books will be chosen from among the following:

 

• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 

• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

• Silas Marner by George Eliot 

• Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 

• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

• 1984 by George Orwell

• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

 

Classes will meet twice a week for an hour each from early September to the end of May with vacations at Thanksgiving, Christmas and the last two weeks of Ramadan.  Each class meeting is $25 per student.  Contact me for exact dates and times.

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GinaFTrent@gmail.com or (917) 676-1517  (Eastern Time!)

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