My Courses In the Margin
The Art of Tragedy
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A Preview of the Year Ahead

Two of the fiercest tragedies in English — Macbeth in the fall and Wuthering Heights in the spring. We read each one aloud, together, act by act and chapter by chapter, and follow a tragic hero down — asking the same question in every scene: how much is fate, and how much is our own hand?

It’s built as a whole year, in two terms. Here is the shape of it.

The Shape of the Year
A play read aloud, then a novel
The same living path both terms — narrate, then Find, Follow and Frame — each ending in a Follow-the-Thread capstone.
Fall Term · Fifteen Weeks
Macbeth
Shakespeare · c. 1606 · with Machiavelli

Shakespeare’s shortest, fiercest tragedy. We read it act by act, alternating a Read week with a Deep-Dive week — each opening with the Habit of Attention, a Find It · Follow It · Frame It passage, and a short writing lesson — and read the play through Machiavelli’s The Prince. The term gathers to a debate, a Follow-the-Thread essay, and a square for the class Quilt.

See the Macbeth scope & sequence
Spring Term · Fifteen Weeks
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë · 1847

Love, class, and revenge on the Yorkshire moors. We read the novel chapter by chapter in the same Read / Deep-Dive rhythm, following Heathcliff and Catherine through a story where devotion and cruelty grow from one buried root — and close, again, on a Follow-the-Thread capstone.

See the Wuthering Heights scope
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