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Literature at Chatham Hall teaches students how to think, not what to think.
The Harkness table welcomes students to become equals together, hosted by a guide and joined by dialogue. This invitation extends to attentive readers, both of texts and the world: curious about language and expression, alert to complexity and nuance, willing to question values and assumptions. Encounters with works from a breadth of genres, traditions, cultures, and perspectives allow students to learn how meaning rarely can be defined as simple or singular, and that careful reading, instead, requires humility, patience, imagination, and deep attentiveness. Students develop the understanding of how language and form shape thought; how stories both reflect and challenge the cultures in which they are produced; and how literature gathers us to find meaningful, purposeful community engaged in the world of ideas.
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The classroom offers the chance to learn to pursue questions worth asking, to develop interpretations grounded in evidence, to revise thinking when deeper understanding requires it. As writers and speakers, students discover that clarity and precision do not exist as mere academic skills but as forms of intellectual responsibility: ways of offering thought more broadly to the world and entering thoughtfully into a vaster, more ancient conversation. Literature enlarges our capacity to notice, to wonder, to imagine, to judge: The encounter with the human condition brings us closer together and enriches us with greater independence of mind, generosity of spirit, and confidence in the value of thoughtful inquiry.

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    Kieran Conrad 

    Chatham Hall
    English Department Chair; English Teacher
    2024
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Your skills in reading, writing, thinking, and speaking will be developed and strengthened through our English curriculum.

In each year of study, you’ll be challenged by stimulating reading assignments, frequent writing projects, a comprehensive vocabulary program, and oral presentations. And, if you are ready for a still greater challenge as a junior or senior, Advanced English courses are available for a variety of topics.


English Courses

English I
English for International Students I
English II
English for International Students II 
English III: American Literature
Advanced English III: American Literature & Rhetoric
English IV: Black Swan Experience
English IV: "The Play's the Thing": Exploring Western Theatre
English IV: The Films of Alfred Hitchcock
English IV: I, the People: James Baldwin
English IV: Foodie Film & Literature
English IV: The Documentary Idea
Advanced English IV: By Her, About Her, For Her - American Women Writers
Advanced English IV: The World of Mythology
Advanced English IV:  Creative Writing - Poetry
Advanced English IV:  Literature and History of the Meiji Restoration 1868-1912
Advanced English IV: Science Fiction

Program Highlights

  • Claudia Emerson Writer in Residence Program (Endowed Program)
  • The Writing Center
  • Student-Led Publications
    Columns (School Newspaper)
    Iris (Literary Group + Annual Literary Publication)
  • English Electives such as:
    The Documentary Idea: Reading Documentary Films Past and Present
    The Films of Alfred Hitchcock
    Foodie Film & Literature
    The Play’s the Thing: Exploring Western Drama and Theatre Across Time & Space


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