a) encounter a variety of literary genres from essay to novel slave narrative.

b) identify key tenets of enlightenment ideas on man and education

c) analyze the relationship between literary texts and enlightenment ideas about man and education

d) interrogate their own relationship to western  ideas of education  and personhood.

e) interrogate how enlightenment notions of man and education have affected ideas of race and gender.

f) contemplate and create an alternative learning experience that challenges traditional notion of school

Writing/Reading Goals:

a) identify different close reading strategies

b)  perform a close reading of a particular text.

c) examine a literary text through the lens of a theory or philosophy stated in another text.

d) create a cogent, precise, and original close reading based analysis.