Literature and Film Classics
Mil Norman – Risch
Rising 11th – Rising 12th Graders
July 12 – Aug. 6 • 9 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Monday – Friday
$1,095
Rising 11th – Rising 12th Graders
July 12 – Aug. 6 • 9 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Monday – Friday
$1,095
This one-semester 1/2-credit Summer Quest course presents literary and film“classics” and interrogates their formal, structural and cultural value. Texts include Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat” and Ian McEwan’s Saturday, as well as a selection of contemporary short fiction and poetry. Our film explorations include the oft-quoted “Odessa Steps”’ sequence from Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 film Battleship Potemkin, along with Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window, Wes Anderson’s Budapest Hotel and Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood. Students learn to distinguish moments of virtuosity and craft – and moral significance – as they become more aware of a writer and filmmaker’s choices.
The assessments include reading quizzes, short analysis papers and a research project that culminates in students curating and presenting their own virtual museum of “great works.” Honors students choose from an array of project options in order to explore new media. Among these options are researched essays and independent film viewing with a prepared class lecture.
Mil Norman-Risch serves as Upper School Department Chair. She has taught at Collegiate for more than 30 years. Qualified Collegiate students – those who have earned an Aaverage or better in their last two semesters of English – may take this elective for Honors credit. However, this will require additional independent reading and writing. For more information, contact Mil Norman-Risch at mnormanr@collegiate-va.org.
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The assessments include reading quizzes, short analysis papers and a research project that culminates in students curating and presenting their own virtual museum of “great works.” Honors students choose from an array of project options in order to explore new media. Among these options are researched essays and independent film viewing with a prepared class lecture.
Mil Norman-Risch serves as Upper School Department Chair. She has taught at Collegiate for more than 30 years. Qualified Collegiate students – those who have earned an Aaverage or better in their last two semesters of English – may take this elective for Honors credit. However, this will require additional independent reading and writing. For more information, contact Mil Norman-Risch at mnormanr@collegiate-va.org.