First-year English seminars — required for all departmental majors — are made to prepare students for their academic future. Professor of English Sarah Heidt ’97 designed hers to prepare them for life. Examining works of literature from Shakespeare’s “King Lear” to Toni Morrison’s “Beloved,” students are thinking critically and creatively about what it means to make a good life — at Kenyon and beyond. The thesis of the class, dubbed “Making a Life,” is simple: Literary reading and creative and c