17 10:10 | ENGLISH 9 WITH DR. THOMPSON The goal of English 9 is to introduce students to the kinds of literary study they’ll do throughout upper school and in college and beyond. The class is a survey of sorts, and students encounter some of the many forms that get called literature—drama, poetry, the short story, the essay, the novel. Through exploration of form, students see how authors across historical and cultural contexts create meaning and in turn get to test their own arguments about the human condition. When reading is a communal practice, students get to do the work of literary analysis in real time. They ask questions and make observations; they build on ideas that reverberate around the room. The text becomes a site of generative play, not a highstakes interrogation. Today, students are finishing up reading Oedipus Rex, with each student who reads for the doomed king bringing their own interpretation of the character, their own baggage. Oedipus has drawn the attention of scholars for some two-thousand years, but each time Dr. Thompson reads it with a class, students make it their own. 11:40 | ADVISORY The Middle and Upper School Advisory Program at Park provides all students in Grades 7 through 12 with academic, social, and emotional guidance that is in service of our mission to nurture and support the development of the whole child. Faculty advisors meet with advisees several times per rotation to provide consistent academic advisement and coaching. They also help their advisees develop socialemotional intelligence, foster a sense of community within the advisory and in the school community as a whole, and serve as their advisees’ principal advocates. Advisors nurture each student’s ability to self-advocate and ensure that all advisees are known and feel known consistently as learners and as human beings. 11:05 | LUNCH Grades 9-12 eat lunch together in the Dining Hall, with students given the freedom to choose with whom they sit. It’s common to see students from different grades sitting together, and if it's nice out, many will choose to eat outdoors on the patio.
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