“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.” -Aristotle
Subject headings are linked to pages listing options for expanding those topics of study. We are also working on listing options to the main curriculum on these pages.
History
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- National History: Cold War to the Present (1945-2015)
- National History Primary Sources
- World History: Cold War to the Present (1945-2015)
- World History Primary Sources
- Biography
- Keep a Book of Centuries
Citizenship
- Government and Economics
- Plutarch
- T1 Dion
- T2 Brutus and Comparison
- Philosophy
- The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps (218-280 Early Medieval to the 14th Century)
- The Craftsman by Richard Sennett
- World Religion
- Current Events
- Student should be keeping up with current events.
English
- Literature
- Shakespeare
- T1 Hamlet
- T2 Julius Caesar
- T3 Twelfth Night
- T1 Hamlet
- Poetry
- T1-3 Dante’s The Inferno
- T1-3 Dante’s The Inferno
- Composition
- 1/week Essay
- 3/week Written Narrations
- Keep a Commonplace Book
- Record favorite quotes and striking passages.
- Give an account of books read.
Recitation and Rhetoric
- Memory Work
- 3 poems per term
- 1 passage from Shakespeare per term
- 1 passage from The Odyssey per term
Languages
- T1-3 Natural Philosophy – Bioethics
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, New and Expanded Edition by James H. Jones
- Bioethics Primary Source Readings
- Nature Journaling
- Weekly entries
- Illustrated either with brush or pencils
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- T1 Physics
- MIT OpenCourseware’s Physics II: Electricity & Magnetism with an Experimental Focus
- University Physics with Modern Physics (14th Edition)
- This is the current edition of the textbook. The OpenCourseware Physics class is taught with the 10th edition, which you can find used for much cheaper than the current version.
- Lab Kit
- University Physics with Modern Physics (14th Edition)
- The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics by Leonard Susskind and George Hrabovsky
- MIT OpenCourseware’s Physics II: Electricity & Magnetism with an Experimental Focus
- T2 Astronomy and Astrophysics
- T3 Genetics
- Geography
- Map Drills
- Locate places from Current Events and mark on map
- Locate places from History, Literature, and Science readings and mark on map
- Consider how the physical geography of these locales impact these events
- Option A:
- For students who plan to go on to math heavy majors, Dual Enrollment Calculus 2 and 3 would be the next step in the Calculus series.
- For students who don’t plan to go on to math heavy majors, Statistics is a good option, or math may be dropped for the year.
Logic
The Feast
- Art
- Artist Study
- Art History
- Artistic Practice
- Music
- Composer Study
- Singing
- Two songs in modern foreign language
- Two folk songs
- Instrument
- Continue practice and musical theory
- Handwork and Life Skills
- Physical Education
- Pick something your student enjoys doing. We suggest a martial art, but yoga, running, or a team sport would also work here.
Free Reads
- Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré
- A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
- Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man by U.R. Anantha Murthy
- Malgudi Days by R. K. Narayan
- Swing Time by Zadie Smtih
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
- The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
- Ghost Singer by Ann Lee Waters
- Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
- Sadie Brower Neakok: An Iñupiaq Woman by Margaret B. Blackman
- On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee
- Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt
- Encounters with the Archdruid by John McPhee
- The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene
- Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz
- Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich and Keith Gessen
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
- The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
- Neuromancer by William Gibson
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