Major Works of Literature by Grade

9th Grade - Homer’s Iliad & Odyssey, Virgil’s Aeneid, and Lucan’s Pharsalia 

10th Grade - The Song of Roland, Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo, Dante’s Inferno, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Milton’s Paradise Lost, and Shakespeare’s Hamlet 

11th Grade - Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter, Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage, Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, O’Connor’s A Good Man is Hard to Find 

12th Grade - Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, Shakepeare’s King Lear, Kafka’s Metamorphosis, Orwell’s 1984, Dickens’ Hard Times 

Senior Tutorial 

Each senior at Seven Oaks will complete a capstone senior tutorial project as a graduation requirement. Under the guidance of a faculty tutor, students will write a 15-page research paper in which they study a great text and an enduring human question. In addition, they will prepare an oral presentation. The confidence that students build will prepare them for college, a career, and life.