This college preparatory class concentrates thematically on the notion of growth through experience. All the major works in this course have been chosen to illuminate this idea in some fashion. Your analysis of the work will be concerned with exploring this primary theme, as well as additional themes and related questions. In addition, the class will always be concerned with the following overarching questions:
From whose viewpoint and from what angle or perspective are we reading?
How do we know when we know? What is the evidence and how reliable is it?
How are things, events, or people connected to each other?
What is the cause and what is the effect? How do they fit together?
What’s new and what’s old? Have we run across this idea?
So what? What does it matter? What does it all mean?
