Sonoma Valley High School

"We shall not cease from exploration/ And the end of all our exploring/ Will be to arrive where we started/ And know the place for the first time." - T.S. Eliot

In the culminating year of the SVHS English program, students apply prior reading and writing learning to new challenges--the Senior Project, college applications, and placement tests. Essays, articles, poetry and World Literature novels in the Senior curriculum invite students to consider the adult decisions and concerns awaiting them as citizens of the 21st Century.

	Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras Year Published: 2000 Two girsl, one privileged, one in poverty, come of age in Pable Escobar's Columbia.
	Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Year Published: 1932 Freedom, equality, individualism, and the role of modern technology--the questions of this dystopian classic continue to haunt us in the 21st Century.
	Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Year Published: 1958 Called “A true classic of world literature" by Barack Obama, this first volume in Achebe's African Trilogy presents a traditional warrior's struggles against the forces of European imperialism in the 1800's.
	Hamlet by Shakespeare Year Published: In a world of deceit and moral uncertainty, the fatherless young hero seeks answers to timeless human questions