Sixth Class English intends to encourage reading and writing for pleasure and at the same time to show the key role of language arts in the academic career that cadets have before them. Units in the course include one on Hoosier writers (from George Ade through Meredith Nicholson to Jessamyn West), in conjunction with the survey of Indiana history in the VI Class Social Studies class, and one on Mythology, in conjunction with the VI Class Religion and Philosophy course. Composition work focuses on the sentence level, while vocabulary is drawn from the readings but also considers Greek and Latin roots. Given that the students are typically beginning the formal study of a foreign language, the grammar portion of the curriculum considers English as a Germanic language, comparing the grammar students have already internalized with that used by their new languages.