Inside Saint Thomas Academy, a boys high school in Mendota Heights, Minnesota, students are studying English Literature. But it’s what happens outside the classroom where their connections to the material grow.
Luke Marks is teaching an elective course called “Words of the Wild,” where storylines connect to fishing lines, and fiction meets fire building.
The class was developed four years ago by Marks, a Saint Thomas alum who’s currently the dean of students, as well as an English teacher…