Literature and Composition Classes in Wake Forest, NC

Wednesday In-Person Literature and Composition Classes for 5th - 12th grades.
2026-2027 Classes
5th through 7th Grades - Wednesdays 8:50-9:50 am
The Age of Fable by Bulfinch (some stories)
The Hobbit by Tolkien
Black Ships Before Troy by Sutcliff
The Iliad by Homer (excerpts to supplement Black Ships Before Troy)
Animal Farm by Orwell

Poetry of Frost, Sandburg, and others

Selections come from Ambleside Online literature for Year 6

8th through 10th Grades - Wednesdays 9:55-10:55
Gulliver's Travels by Swift
Much Ado About Nothing by Shakespeare
She Stoops to Conquer by Goldsmith
Pride and Prejudice by Austen

Selected poetry from The Oxford Book of English Verse
The Roar on the Other Side by Rhodes (an accompaniment to writing all year long; it is a book on writing poetry.)

Selections come from Ambleside Online literature for Year 9

11th and 12th Grades - Wednesdays 11:00 - noon
(First half of the year with the ancients, and the second half with the moderns. Till We Have Faces is a good bridge between the two.)
The Iliad by Homer
The Odyssey by Homer
Till We Have Faces by Lewis
That Distant Land (some stories) by Berry

Poetry of Shaw, Berry, and Szymborska

Modern selections come from Ambleside Online Literature for Year 12. The Iliad and The Odyssey were added in based on an older Ambleside ancients schedule.

Classes are $325 for the year, plus $30 for all books and printouts. Sibling discounts are offered. 33 classes - Wednesdays, September 9, 2026 - May 26, 2027. No classes on November 11, 25; December 23, 30; March 24.