ART 201/202: Drawing
This course focuses on drawing as a means of visual inquiry. Students learn to see with an artist’s eye and to know what it is like to look at the world through that lens. Students learn about gesture, contour line, positive and negative space, visual space, shadow and light, composition, and perspective. They use these […]
ENG 400-IB: Language & Literature HL1/HL2
PLACEMENT IN THIS COURSE REQUIRES APPROVAL BY THE DEPARTMENT CHAIR/IB COORDINATOR. The study of literature enables an exploration of one of the more enduring fields of human creativity, and provides opportunities for encouraging independent, original, critical, and clear thinking. It also promotes respect for the imagination and a perceptive approach to the understanding and interpretation […]
ENG 340-IB: Literature SL
The study of literature enables an exploration of one of the more enduring fields of human creativity, and provides opportunities for encouraging independent, original, critical, and clear thinking. It also promotes respect for the imagination and a perceptive approach to the understanding and interpretation of literary works. Students appreciate the artistry of literature and develop […]
ENG 330-IB: Language & Literature SL1/SL2
In this course, students study language in its many forms and the cultural contexts that produce and consume it. They examine the impact that evolving cultures have on the uses of language as a means of communication within and among those cultures. Students study nonfiction texts, including essays, speeches, journalism, and advertising, as well as […]
ENG 310: Revolutionary Literature
In this course, students discover the power that words can have to inspire and provoke change. This course challenges students to see the relationship between art and revolution, between words and action, and between literary movements and social ones. Students read a wide range of works in this course from around the world, spanning eras […]
ENG 300: Contemporary Literature
The story of the late 20th and 21st centuries is a story of increasing global connectivity with increasing social isolation, of social uprisings for inclusive freedom with the rise of authoritarianism, repressive theocracy, and international terrorism, and of massive technological progress with seemingly insurmountable climate and health crises. This course explores this story. Through the […]
ENG 110-ELL: Proficient Writing, Composition, & Expression
Cheshire Academy’s Writing, Composition, and Expression courses offer an intensive, context-based, genre-focused sequence of study in writing for academic purposes. These courses are for students whose home/comfort language is not English. Students focus on models of academic genres in all disciplines and develop an understanding of the purpose of each genre, how each genre is […]
ENG 100-ELL: Intermediate Writing, Composition, & Expression
Cheshire Academy’s Writing, Composition, and Expression courses offer an intensive, context-based, genre-focused sequence of study in writing for academic purposes. These courses are for students whose home/comfort language is not English. Students enhance grammatical, mechanical, and lexical control. The course focuses on improving writing styles such as memoirs, scientific articles, short stories, analytical responses, and […]
