• SENIOR YEAR

    "We shall not cease from exploration/ And the end of all our exploring/ Will be to arrive where we started/ And know the place for the first time." - T.S. Eliot

    In the culminating year of the SVHS English program, students apply prior reading and writing learning to new challenges--the Senior Project, college applications, and placement tests. Essays, articles, poetry and World Literature novels in the Senior curriculum invite students to consider the adult decisions and concerns awaiting them as citizens of the 21st Century.

     

    From the Senior Reading Lists:

     
     

  • Fruit of the Drunken Tree

    by Ingrid Rojas Contreras Year Published: 2000

    Two girsl, one privileged, one in poverty, come of age in Pable Escobar's Columbia.

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  • Brave New World

    by Aldous Huxley Year Published: 1932

    Freedom, equality, individualism, and the role of modern technology--the questions of this dystopian classic continue to haunt us in the 21st Century.

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  • Things Fall Apart

    by Chinua Achebe Year Published: 1958

    Called “A true classic of world literature" by Barack Obama, this first volume in Achebe's African Trilogy presents a traditional warrior's struggles against the forces of European imperialism in the 1800's.

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  • Hamlet

    by Shakespeare Year Published:

    In a world of deceit and moral uncertainty, the fatherless young hero seeks answers to timeless human questions

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