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is to provide students with an academically challenging Classical Liberal Arts education that encourages them to develop a passion for learning and that gives them the means to become re

of virtuous character.

INTRODUCTION Aristoi is proud to include rich fine arts classes at every grade level. We have a K- With the exception of Latin, much of the 4 program which includes comprehensive scope and sequence cited below is taken classes in art music, a 5-8 program which from the Core Knowledge® Sequence (not specializes in fine arts history classes in to be confused with “Common Core” various disciplines (and also offers band as standards prohibited in Texas schools), an extracurricular activity), and a 9-12 which complements classical education. As program in which students choose a a public charter school, Aristoi also teaches specialty to focus on for their high school all subjects and topics required by the career. State of Texas. The summary below is only a portion of what is taught at every grade SOCRATIC DIALOGUE level. For example, whereas all public Socratic dialogue is the pedagogical tool at schools are required to offer basic “social the heart of the classical education studies,” Aristoi offers that as required, enterprise. Following the model left by plus a greatly enhanced history of the Plato’s famous teacher, Socrates, this world and the United States in all grades. process of questioning is designed to Some topics are covered in multiple excavate students’ assumptions in order to grades. This is the classical education reveal the path forward in the search for method of covering an important subject at truth. The Socratic approach to instruction the depth appropriate for the child’s requires a student to be a partner in that development. Younger students learn search, not just the passive recipient of the basic facts (such as when the Civil War was fruits of another’s quest. In this way, fought and who fought) while older whether in history or literature class, in students learn comprehensive details (such science or math, students are always called as why the Civil War was fought and how it upon to behave as intellectual explorers. shaped America’s future). This method of allowing a student to propose an idea, offer a rebuttal, or defend

Curriculum Highlights │Page 2 an idea logically plays a role at all grade MATH levels. In Kindergarten, the teacher might ask in reference to the well-known fable, Aristoi uses Singapore Math in grades K-8. “Who do you think had a better idea, the SHURLEY GRAMMAR grasshopper or the ant? Why? What should the grasshopper have done instead?” This This grammar program is used in grades 1- method allows revelations regarding 8 to give students a firm grasp of the morality, character, and motives to surface. English language.

At the Upper School level—say, in a SPELLING Humane Letters course—the method may be used to lead the class to refine their Spelling is a requirement from grades K-6. sense of the major theme of The Odyssey, LATIN or to distill the argument of a At Aristoi, Latin is a vehicle used to historiographical essay. investigate the ancient world. Additionally, SCIENCE studying Latin extends each student’s understanding of English and allows an Aristoi teaches a rich science curriculum at appreciation for literature and character. every grade level. The difference between Latin is introduced in the elementary Aristoi and other public schools in this grades and then studied in earnest subject is that, in addition to studying a beginning in Junior High School. wide scope of scientific information, Aristoi students also study the great scientists who ART We seek to teach the students as contributed to their fields. Additionally, Aristotle exhorted: “The aim of art is to students learn about historical events represent not the outward appearance of which might have led to the discoveries, or, things, but their inward significance.” in the alternative, they learn how important Whenever possible, art is studied through discoveries changed the course of history. the lens of history. For example, if a class is

Curriculum Highlights │Page 3 studying the Renaissance in History, they opportunities to memorize and recite will study in art events influenced the great literary works or historical pieces. artists of the day.

MUSIC

Most songs are taught within a historical context; many are more than 50 years old. Patriotic songs are emphasized at all grade levels. Every grade level studies classical music in order to appreciate its rich and evocative musical fabric. The students have several opportunities to present singing or instrumental performances during the year. Most notably, students sing to honor the armed forces at our annual Veterans Day program.

MEMORIZATION AND RECITATION

This is a critical component of classical education. Memorization disciplines the mind, whereas recitation allows students to practice elocution and gain confidence in public speaking. We begin in Kindergarten when students memorize and recite the Preamble to the Constitution. Aristoi 5th graders memorize and recite 16-18 poems written by the likes of William Blake and Lewis Carroll. All grade levels have similar

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THE VIRTUES Aristoi emphasizes the virtues that undergird Western Civilization. We believe that knowledge should not be divorced from character.

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KINDERGARTEN Mouse, The Grasshopper and the Ants U.S. History: Native American Peoples,  American Folk Tales - Johnny Past and Present, Early Exploration and Appleseed, Casey Jones Settlement, The Mount Rushmore  Sayings and Phrases - Do unto Presidents, Memorize and Recite others as you would have them do Preamble to United States Constitution unto you. The early bird gets the (first semester) worm. Where there’s a will there’s a way. Look before you leap. World History: Geography - Spatial Better safe than sorry. Sense, Identify and Locate the Seven Continents on Map and Globe Math: Singapore Math  Counting - Counting to 100, Skip Language Arts: Saxon Phonics develop Counting by 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s the foundation for Reading  Number Representation to 20  Poetry - Sing a Song of Sixpense,  Comparing and Ordering Old King Cole, I Do Not Mind You,  Composing and Decomposing Winter Wind, Mother Goose Numbers to 10  Stories - Chicken Little, Goldilocks  Place Value - Ones and Tens and the Three Bears, Little Red  Fraction - Halves, Thirds, and Riding Hood, The Three Little Quarters Pigs, The Ugly Duckling, How  Coin Values Many Spots Does a Leopard Have? The Legend of the Jumping Science: Areas of study include: Mouse, King Midas and the Golden Touch, The Wolf and the Kids  Aesop’s Fables - The Lion and the

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 The Scientific Method Language Arts: Saxon Phonics and Spelling  Plant Parts and Needs  Poetry - Robert Louis Stevenson,  The Human Body Robert Frost, Langston Hughes Stories  Forces and Motion – Hansel and Gretel, Jack and the  Energy Beanstalk, Rumpelstiltskin, The Tale of  Magnetism Peter Rabbit, Aesop’s Fables (The Boy  Types of Matter Who Cried Wolf, A Wolf in Sheep’s  Weather Clothing)  Animal Needs and Habitats  Sayings and Phrases - An apple a day  Taking Care of the Earth keeps the doctor away, Practice makes  The Sun, Moon, and perfect, If at first you don’t succeed, try, Constellations try again., Sour grapes.

Music: Folk songs, You’re a Grand Old Flag, Math: Singapore Math Yankee Doodle  Numbers to 10 - Counting, Art: Color, line, sculpting Comparing and Making Number Patterns FIRST GRADE  Number Bonds U.S. History: Early Explorers and Settlers,  Addition Facts to 10 Pocahontas, From Colonies to  Subtraction Facts to 10 Independence, Exploring the West  Numbers to 20 - Counting, Place World History: Mesopotamia, The Cradle of Value, Patterns and Ordering  Civilization, Early Civilizations of the Americas, Addition and Subtraction Facts to Ancient Egypt (Coincides with art of ancient 20 Length  Egypt), The World’s Religions: Judaism, Numbers to 40  Christianity, Islam Addition and Subtraction to 40  Money

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 Numbers to 100  Calendar - Month, Day, Year, Write the Date, Seasons  Time to the Hour, Half-Hour, Quarter Hour Science:  Scientific Processes and Procedures  The Human Body - Skeletal System, Digestive System, Muscular System, Circulatory System  Solids and Liquids  Atoms  Electricity  Measurement SECOND GRADE  The Solar System: The Moon

 The Planets U.S. History: The Geography of America,  Animal Habitats - Ocean, Desert, The Constitution, The War of 1812 Rain- forest, Forest (Coincides with Star Spangled Banner in  Seasons Music), Westward Expansion: Pony Ex- Music: Folk songs, patriotic songs, press, Native Americans, Trail of Tears, Hansel and Gretel, Peter and the Wolf California Gold Rush, The Civil War: Harriet Tubman, North vs. South, Art: Cave paintings, secondary colors, Abraham Lincoln, Emancipation texture Immigration: The Land of Opportunity, “e pluribus unum” Civil Rights Leaders:

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Susan B. Anthony, Jackie Robinson, Rosa spilled milk; Practice what you Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr. preach.

World History: Ancient China and India Math: Singapore Math and their religions, Ancient Greece  Numbers to 1,000 (Athens, Sparta, Persian Wars of  Addition and Subtraction to Marathon and Thermopylae, gods and 1,000 with Regrouping goddesses, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle)  Using Bar Models to Add, Subtract Language Arts:  Measurement  Poetry - Emily Dickinson, Federico  Multiplication and Division Garcia Lorca, Shel Silverstein,  Multiplication Tables of 2, 5,10, Christina Rosetti, Clement C. 3, & 4 vii. Metric Measurement of Moore, Robert Louis Stevenson Length  American Folk Heroes - Paul  Mass - Kilograms & Grams Bunyan, Johnny Appleseed, John  Volume – Liters Henry, Pecos Bill, Casey Jones  Mental Math & Estimation  Literature - A Christmas Carol,  Money Charlotte’s Web, The Emperor’s  Fractions New Clothes, Little House in the  Customary Measurement of Big Woods, Beauty and the Beast, Length Peter Pan  Time  Mythology of Ancient Greece -  Using Bar Models to Multiply & Gods of Greece & Folktales from Divide Asia  Graphs & Line Plots  Sayings and Phrases - Back to the  Lines & Surfaces drawing board; Don’t judge a  Shapes & Patterns book by its cover; Don’t cry over

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Science:  Life Cycles of Plants, Butterflies, Language Arts: Frogs, and Chickens  Poetry – Shel Silverstein,  Insects Shakespeare, Joyce Kilmer, Lewis  The Human Body Carroll  Magnets  Literature - Alice in Wonderland,  Patterns Aladdin: Tales of the Arabian  Simple Machines Nights, Stuart Little, Sarah - Plain  Matter and Energy and Tall, The Tale of Despereaux,  Earth and Space Detectives in Togas, Stone Fox, Little House on the Prairie, and Music: Patriotic songs, songs from Homer Price Westward Expansion, African American  Mythology - Norse Mythology, Spirituals Ancient Roman and Roman Mythology Art: Abstract art, landscapes,  Sayings and Phrases - Actions architecture speak louder than words; One rotten apple spoils the whole THIRD GRADE barrel; Beggars can’t be choosers; When in Rome do as the Romans U.S. History: Earliest Americans, Native do Americans, Exploration and Settlement of America, The Thirteen Colonies Math: Singapore Math  Numbers to 10,000 World History: Geography of continents,  Mental Math & Estimation oceans, hemispheres, rivers of the world,  Addition & Subtraction up to Canada, Ancient Rome (Persecution of 10,000 Christians & Fall of Rome), The Vikings  Using Bar Models to Add,

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Subtract, Multiply & Divide  Multiplication & Multiplication Art: Light, space, pattern, symmetry Tables  Division FOURTH GRADE  Money  Metric Length, Mass, & Volume U.S. History: The American Revolution,  Real World Problems: Making a Constitutional, Government: Measurement Declaration of Independence, Natural  Bar Graphs & Line Plots Rights, Republican Government,  Fractions Founding Fathers, Checks and Balances,  Customary Length, Weight, & The Constitution, The Bill of Rights, Capacity Texas History  Time & Temperature  Angles & Lines World History: The Middle Ages: (The  Two-Dimensional Shapes Christian Church, Feudalism, Norman  Area & Perimeter Conquest

Science: Language Arts:  Classifying Animals  Poetry - Ralph Waldo Emerson,  Human Body - Muscles and Bones, Carl Sandburg, Henry Wadsworth Nervous System, Light and Vision, Longfellow Stories - Gulliver’s Sound and Hearing Travels, The Legend of Sleepy  Astronomy Hollow, Robin Hood, Polly Anna,  Ecology Rio Van Winkle, Door in the Wall,  Lives of Famous Scientists Girl of the Alamo  Myths - King Arthur and the Music: Stars and Stripes Forever, Knights of the Round Table National Anthem, Nutcracker Suite  Speeches - Patrick Henry: “Give

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me liberty or give me death.”  Chambers Human Body -  Sayings and Phrases - As the crow Respiratory System flies; Bury the hatchet; Beauty is  Chemistry Basic Terms and only skin deep; Haste makes Concepts -Atoms, Properties of waste; Two wrongs don’t make a Matter, Elements, Solutions, right; When it rains, it pours. Electricity

Math: Singapore Math Music: Armed Forces songs, Texas, Our  Numbers and Number Sense Texas, learn to play the recorder  Fractions and Decimals  Money Art: Art of the Middle Ages, Islamic art,  Multiplication African art, American art  Division  Solving Problems and Equations  Measurement  Geometry - Identify and Draw Points and Lines  Geometry - Identify Angles  Geometry - Identify Polygons  Geometry - Circles: Identify Radius and  Diameter  Geometry - Recognize Similar and Congruent Figures

Science:  Human Body - Circulatory System  Human Body - Heart and the Four

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FIFTH GRADE Classical Roots (Latin & Greek)  Literature: The Lion, The Witch U.S. History: Ancient Greece and Rome and The Wardrobe (Lewis) Jason Texts used include: Famous Men of and the Golden Fleece (Colum), Greece, Famous Men of Rome, The The Trojan War (Coolidge), The Story of the Secret Garden (Burnett), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer History: Ancient Times, The Book of the (Twain) Ancient Greeks, The Book of the  Drama: Julius Caesar by William Ancient Romans. Shakespeare  Poetry: The Road Not Taken Students will examine the lives of (Robert Frost), Casey at the Bat notable individuals and expansion of the (Ernest Lawrence Thayer), Fog Greek and Roman empires while (Carl Sandburg), The New exploring the life and culture of the Colossus (Emma Lazarus) people who lived during the time of these great empires: Athens, Sparta, Math: Areas of study include place Olympic games, Lycurgus, Solon, value, arithmetic operations, and Persian War, Marathon, Pericles, rounding with both whole numbers and Themistocles, Temples of Athens, and decimals; operations with fractions; The Greek Theater. The Founding of algebra; geometry with area, surface Rome, The Seven Kings, First and area, volume, and angles; graphing; Second Punic Wars, Sulla, Pompey, and personal finance Texts used include: Julius Caesar, The Roman Empire. Math in Focus: Singapore Math

Language Arts: Texts used include: Science: Areas of study include Shurley English Grammar, Institute for biological classification, plants, Excellence in Writing, Vocabulary from interactions and changes in ecosystems,

Curriculum Highlights │Page 13 water on earth, weather patterns, forces Crusades, Magna Carta and its influence that change the earth, natural resources, on constitutional law, the Black Death, matter, forces and energy, earth in the Hundred Years’ War, the Wars of the space, stars and galaxies, and human Roses, Protestant Reformation, body systems. Texts used include: Scott Reconquista, New World Exploration; Foresman Science. Geography of modern Europe

Latin: Vocabulary from Latin Roots Art History: This is a two semester course which intently examines classical Theater: This is a two semester course art history. The aim is to understanding with one live performance each history through art, identify major works semester after school including of art which have influenced and preparation and rehearsals during class. preserved culture, and develop drawing The first semester will focus on Greek skills from observation and application Theatre and its’ history as well as key of techniques demonstrated by the elements in play production. The masters. Students will examine Classical second semester will focus on Art (The Art of Ancient Greece and Elizabethan Theatre and its history Rome), Gothic Art, The Renaissance, along with key elements in play Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassical, production. Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Expressionism and SIXTH GRADE Abstraction, Modern American Painting.

Medieval History: Fall of Rome and rise Language Arts: Shurley English, Institute of Christendom, Barbarians, Christianity for Excellence in Writing and Islam, Byzantium, Battle of Tours, Sentence Patterns 1-5; literary analysis; Vikings and the introduction of Hero’s Journey and Cosmogonic Cycle; feudalism, life in the Middle Ages, persuasive essay.

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 Poetry - rhyme scheme and theories about the universe. Students introduction to meter: iambs, are encouraged to ponder both the trochees, anapests, dactyls; beauty and the devastation of erosion, Shakespeare, The Highwayman, weathering and storms. The Lady of Shalott, and various other samples Math: Singapore Math Course 1 will enable students to gain depth of  Literature - The Phantom understanding, fluency of skills and Tollbooth; Realms of Gold, Vol. 1 confidence in problem solving. (anthology of short stories); The Singapore Math provides opportunities Wind in the Willows; Sir Gawain to use visuals and models to enhance and the Green Knight; A student understanding. Cumulative Midsummer Night’s Dream review practice is built into the 6th grade program to build fluency, and to Science: Earth Science utilizing prepare students for successful Pearson’s interactive textbook (2013 retention. Students are also guided to edition); Students learn that science is understand the beauty of math and both a body of knowledge and a appreciate the connections between process of acquiring new knowledge as math and nature through math labs. we seek to understand how our universe works. We study the history of the Latin: This course is designed to development of plate tectonic theory introduce students to the Latin and the history of humanity’s language using basic reading, writing, understanding of gravity to learn how and conversational strategies. Students ideas and theories can change over time will deepen their knowledge of the as scientists work to observe, gather English language through an facts, and analyze how facts work examination of Latin roots and together to either create or change derivatives. Finally, students will trace

Curriculum Highlights │Page 15 the influence of the Latin language and Language Arts: The ability to write a classical culture in modern society by complete persuasive essay is the examining the practices, perspectives, overarching goal. Shurley Grammar, The and products of the ancient Romans. Institute for Excellence in Writing, The Lost Tools of Writing. SEVENTH GRADE  Short stories – The Necklace, The Gift of the Magi, The Tell-tale History: Spanish, French, and British Heart, Araby claims to the New World; the ethics of  Poetry - The Fireside Poets Indian policy; the Mission System;  Novels - The Call of the Wild, The colonial settlement patterns; Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and comparative revolutions (American, Mr. Hyde French, Mexican, Texan) Sam Houston,  Drama – Cyrano de Bergerac Moses and Stephen F. Austin, Santa Ana. Readings include Lone Star Science: Life Sciences utilizing Pearson’s (Fehrenbach), Adventures in the interactive textbook (2013), Unknown Interior of America (Cabeza Classification of living things; Cells and de Vaca), With Santa Anna in Texas their parts and functions; DNA; Plants (Jose Enrique De La Pena), and 6 Years and animals; the human body; with the Texas Rangers: 1875-1881 ecological communities. (James B. Gillett)  European Exploration, Conquest, Math: In 7th grade we use Math In Focus and Evangelization Singapore Math, courses 2. Math in Focus is  New World Revolutions of the designed to help students gain depth of 18th and 19th Century knowledge, fluency with skills, and  The Texas Revolution confidence in problem solving. It employs a focus on problem solving and a concrete  Texas as Republic and State visual-symbolic progression to help

Curriculum Highlights │Page 16 students build solid conceptual Western government, medicine, or understanding. Mathematical problem science. solving is central to mathematics learning. It involves the acquisition and application of Music History: This is a two-semester mathematics concepts and skills in a wide course containing four major units of range of situations, including real-world music history with elements of music problems. In addition to the traditional 7th theory woven throughout. The first and 8th grade levels of mathematics, Aristoi semester will focus on the Baroque and students are also offered an advanced 7th Classical Eras of music history, and the grade course which is designed to prepare second semester will feature units on students to take Algebra 1 for high school the Romantic Era and 20th century credit as 8th graders. The students who choose to take this class will cover the 7th music. grade curriculum and the skills taught in 8th grade. Taking algebra early makes it EIGHTH GRADE possible for the student to take AP calculus as seniors. U.S. History: Seminar participation, Organized debate, Research and study, Latin: In preparation for a high-school Reading with purpose, Oral Recitation, Latin curriculum, Aristoi seventh- Use of MLA writing format. Readings: graders study the foundations and Common Sense – Thomas Paine; architecture of English grammar, along Narrative of the Life of Frederick with Greek and Latin roots and their Douglass – Frederick Douglass. derivatives in modern English vocabulary. Other investigations include What is the American Experiment? What the large-scale sweep of Roman history are its key elements? and culture, classical geography,  Colonial Period – Jamestown, Aristotelian logic, metrical patterns in Native Americans, Education, poetry, and Latin’s presence in modern First Great Awakening,

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 The American Revolution – considered a continuation of the Causes, Military virtuous American Experiment?  The Constitution – Federalists  Reconstruction and Antifederalist, Principles of  Westward Expansion

By 1840, did the “American Experiment English: An aptitude for writing simple, look like a success? What was the compound, complex, and Compound- Founding Fathers’ vision for their Complex sentences; A working country, and had their hopes been knowledge of note taking strategies; An realized by the mid-nineteenth century? ability to determine or clarify the  Early American Political Parties, meaning of unfamiliar or ambiguous Technology words using roots from Latin and Greek  Jacksonian Democracy, (Vocabulary From Classical Roots, Level Challenges to the Constitution, B); A consistent framework for Common The Indian Problem placing;  Reform – Economics and  Writing - Review IEW Elements, Technology, The Second Great The Lost Tools of Writing I – an Awakening introduction to rhetorical tools, the complete persuasive essay. Was slavery really the prime cause of the  Novels - Animal Farm (Orwell), Civil War? At what point did it become Fahrenheit 451(Bradbury), The inevitable? Odyssey(Homer), To Kill a  Origins and Causes of the Civil Mockingbird(Lee) War  Short Stories: “The Bet” –  Slavery – The Peculiar Institution Chekov, “Dr. Heidegger’s  The American Civil War Experiment” – Hawthorn, “An Honest Thief”- Dostoyevsky, Should “Manifest Destiny” be “God Sees the Truth and Waits”–

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Tolstoy application of mathematics concepts  Poetics - “A Boy’s Will” and and skills in a wide range of situations, “North of Boston” (Frost) including real-world problems. In addition to the traditional 8th grade Science: Integrated Physics and level of mathematics, Aristoi students Chemistry (IPC). The course who are ready for the abstract thinking encompasses the basic physical of algebra are offered a chance to take science which forms the foundations for Algebra I for high school credit. Taking the Chemistry course (tenth grade) and algebra early makes it possible for the Physics course (eleventh grade). It student to take AP calculus as seniors. includes the structure of matter, periodic table, basic chemical reactions, Algebra I interactions of forces and energy In Algebra 1 we use the Saxon transformation. The textbook for this curriculum. Algebra 1 is the first year in course is Pearson’s Physical Science: a four year college preparatory math Concepts in Action. sequence. It focuses on the structure of the real number system and examines Math: In 8th grade we use Math In Focus symbolic representations in solving real Singapore Math, course 3. Math in world problems. Linear and quadratic Focus is designed to help students gain functions, systems of equations, and depth of knowledge, fluency with skills, problem solving are investigated. and confidence in problem solving. It Graphing, both as a means of displaying employs a focus on problem solving and data and analyzing data in one or two a concrete-visual-symbolic progression dimensions, is an integral part of this to help students build solid conceptual course. Review is built into every section understanding. Mathematical problem solving is central to mathematics learning. It involves the acquisition and

Curriculum Highlights │Page 19 and unit of study. A sound foundation in performance. During the second arithmetic and Pre-algebra skills is semester, the students work together to essential for success in this course. The assemble and ultimately perform a content of this course is important for piece of classic American musical students’ success on their college theatre. This major production takes mathematics entrance exams. Students place in May each year. who complete Algebra I should take Geometry the next school year.

Latin: Eighth-graders at Aristoi have the opportunity to gain a high-school Latin I credit, studying the Cambridge Latin Curriculum. Following the daily life of a Roman family and slaves in first-century Roman Pompeii, the early Cambridge lessons examine the basics of an inflected language, and uses stories to encourage both a comfortable familiarity with reading simple Latin, and a basic knowledge of the society and heritage of the Roman civilization.

Music Theater: Students in the 8th grade work together in the first semester learning performance techniques for singing and acting while also studying the history of American musical theatre. The first semester culminates in a choral

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NINTH GRADE  Nichomachean Ethics and Poetics (Aristotle) and key Humane Letters I: The Classical World to Platonic Dialogues Christendom  History of Rome, Books I-V (Livy) and the Pax Romana Is the advent of Christianity in late  St. Athanasius, St. Augustine and Antiquity best viewed as a the Definition of Christianity development, a repudiation, or a fulfillment of Classical civilization? Science: The science course for ninth Freshmen consider “Man,” his nature, grade, entitled Biology, is an in depth his capacity for good and for evil, and study of the cell processes, inheritance, his destiny. Beyond the study of principles of ecology and the diversity of Western Civilization through the fall of life. The textbook for this course is Rome and the advent of Christianity, McGraw-Hill’s Texas Biology. students develop academic aptitudes foundational to the Sequence, including Math: Students have the option of dignified and productive participation in Algebra I or Geometry the Socratic seminar, composition of analytical essays that draw on multiple Algebra 1 sources of authority, and close reading In Algebra 1 we use the Saxon of literary texts, including: curriculum. Algebra 1 is the first year in  The Odyssey (Homer) and a four year college preparatory math Culture and War in Classical sequence. It focuses on the structure of Greece the real number system and examines  Histories (Herodotus) symbolic representations in solving real  Greek Lives (Plutarch) on the Rise world problems. Linear and quadratic and Fall of an Independent Greek functions, systems of equations, and Civilization problem solving are investigated.

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Graphing, both as a means of displaying and area and volume. Algebra I is a data and analyzing data in one or two prerequisite to enrolling in Geometry. dimensions, is an integral part of this Students who complete Geometry course. Review is built into every section should take Algebra II or Math Models and unit of study. A sound foundation in the next school year. arithmetic and Pre-algebra skills is essential for success in this course. The Latin: The typical schedule has freshmen content of this course is important for taking Latin II, though Latin I is available students’ success on their college to newly enrolled students. Latin II shifts mathematics entrance exams. Students the scene of the ongoing story to the who complete Algebra I should take harsh frontiers of Britain and the ancient Geometry the next school year. port of Egyptian Alexandria, with plots both grand and domestic in scope, and Geometry includes grammar like imperative and In Geometry, we use the Glencoe participle forms of verbs, the use of the Geometry textbook. The Glencoe subjunctive mood for indirect questions Geometry textbook uses multiple and commands, and purpose or result representations (words, symbols, clauses. models, and examples) to illustrate key concepts for the secondary student in Fine Arts: Students have the option of Euclidean plane geometry. Euclidean taking High School Band, Studio Art I, or geometry uses a comprehensive Acting I deductive and logical system to teach math concepts and apply them to the TENTH GRADE real world. Topics covered in this course include: lines and angles, triangles, Humane Letters II: Medieval and proportions and similarity, trigonometry, quadrilaterals, circles,

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Modern Europe Spanning Europe’s begin to “discover the available means Medieval and Modern epochs, of persuasion in any given case” by Sophomores will journey up to the eve guided reading through Aristotle’s of World War One. Throughout their Rhetoric. Students will begin the journey survey, students will examine the to become “good Men speaking well.” various ways the individual person has lived and moved and had his being Science: The science course for tenth within the overlapping memberships, grade, entitled Chemistry, is an in depth loyalties, and ideas that populated study of chemical bonding, chemical European society and culture from equations and reactions, solutions and around 400 to 1900 A.D. Skills to be chemical equilibrium. The textbook for honed this year will include the this course is Holt McDougal’s Modern understanding, interpreting, and writing Chemistry. of poetry, the craft of literary criticism, and the recognition of logical and Math: In Geometry, we use the Glencoe rhetorical fallacies. Historical and literary Geometry textbook. The Glencoe works studied include: Geometry textbook uses multiple  The Song of Roland and the representations (words, symbols, medieval Milieu models, and examples) to illustrate key  The Inferno (Dante) and Medieval concepts for the secondary student in Milieu Euclidean plane geometry. Euclidean  Emile (Rousseau) geometry uses a comprehensive  A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens) deductive and logical system to teach  The Brothers Karamazov math concepts and apply them to the (Dostoyevsky) and Christ in the real world. Topics covered in this course Modern World include: lines and angles, triangles, proportions and similarity, Rhetoric: In Rhetoric I, students will trigonometry,

Curriculum Highlights │Page 23 quadrilaterals and circles, and area and her or his study of Latin into Latin III, or volume. Students who complete taking up study of another language. Geometry should take Algebra 2 or Latin III delves into more complex Math Models the next school year. stories, involving the passive voice and subordinate clauses, set in the privilege Algebra II and power of first-century imperial The textbook we use in Algebra 2 is Rome, and shifts later in the year Prentice Hall Classics Algebra and towards extracts and adaptions of Trigonometry. This course is designed famous authors. to build on algebraic and geometric concepts. It develops advanced algebra Fine Arts: Students have the option of skills such as systems of equations, taking High School Band, Studio Art I or advanced polynomials, imaginary and II, or Acting I or II complex numbers, quadratics, transformations, and includes the study ELEVENTH GRADE of logarithmic functions. It also introduces matrices and their Humane Letters III: The American properties. The content of this course Experience. Students will develop their are important for students’ success on abilities to write and speak persuasively their college mathematics entrance through a rigorous examination of exams. Algebra I and Geometry are American history and literature. Ideally, prerequisites to enrolling in Algebra II. students will cultivate an interest in our Students who complete Algebra II nation’s history and culture as well as a should take Pre-Calculus or Math desire to be informed citizens of Models the next school year. virtuous character.

Latin: By the sophomore year a student Course texts include: will typically have the option of pursuing  The Great Gatsby (Scott

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Fitzgerald) patterns and rules governing motion,  The Autobiography of Benjamin forces, energy, matter, heat, sound, Franklin (Benjamin Franklin) light, and the composition of atoms. The  The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne) textbook for this course is Prentice Hall  A History of the American People Conceptual Physics. (Paul Johnson)  Death of a Salesman (Arthur AP Physics 1 Miller) This course is a junior level course  Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck) equivalent to introductory college-level  Walden and Civil Disobedience physics. Students cultivate their (Henry David Thoreau) understanding of physics through  Adventures of Huckleberry Finn classroom study and hands-on, inquiry- (Twain) based laboratory work. Units of study  Ethan Frome (Edith Wharton) for the AP Physics 1 course include  The American Pageant: The kinematics, dynamics, energy, History of the Republic Advanced momentum, electric charge and force, Placement Edition and mechanical waves and sound.  For the Record: A Documentary History of America (Sixth Edition) Math: (Vol. 1)  For the Record: A Documentary Algebra 2 History of America (Sixth Edition) The textbook we use in Algebra 2 is (Vol. 2) Prenice Hall Classics: Algebra and Trigonometry. This course is designed Science: to build on algebraic and geometric concepts. It develops advanced algebra Physics skills such as systems of equations, This course is an in-depth study of the advanced polynomials, imaginary and

Curriculum Highlights │Page 25 complex numbers, quadratics, purpose of this course is to use transformations, and includes the study mathematics as a tool to model real- of logarithmic functions. It also world phenomena in science, finance, introduces matrices and their music, and art. This course should help properties. The content of this course the students to maintain and extend are important for students’ success on their algebraic and geometric skills. their college mathematics entrance Students who complete Math Models exams. Algebra I and Geometry are should take Algebra II the next school prerequisites to enrolling in Algebra II. year if they have not already completed Students who complete Algebra II that course. should take Pre-Calculus or Math Models the next school year. Pre-Calculus The textbook we use for Pre-Calculus is Math Models Larson: Pre-calculus with Limits. Pre- The textbook we use in Math Models is Calculus is a course that includes Pearson Mathematical Models with algebra and trigonometry at a level Applications. This course makes a which is designed to prepare students connection between mathematics and for the study of calculus. Algebra I, the students’ futures, preparing them to Geometry, and Algebra II are use mathematics in everyday life and in prerequisites to enrolling in Pre- the work place. Solving problems that Calculus. Students who complete Pre- are important to them and can motivate Calculus should take AP Calculus the students by helping them see that next school year. mathematics really are useful in the real world. This course is intended to Latin: Many juniors continue their reinforce, broaden, and extend the studies into Latin IV, including the mathematical knowledge and skills reading and analysis of authentic period acquired in algebra. The primary poetry and literature, such as Vergil’s

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Aeneid or Caesar’s Gallic Wars. Those who have successfully completed two Course texts include years of high-school-level Latin may  Hard Times (Dickens) instead investigate another language:  The Portable Nineteenth-Century currently modern Spanish or classical Russian Reader (George Gibian, Greek. ed.)  Norton Anthology of English Fine Arts: Students have the option of Literature, Vol 2. taking High School Band, Studio Art, or  Western Civilization, Volume II: Theater Since 1500. (Jackson J. Spielvogel) American Government & Economics:  Brideshead Revisted. (Evelyn  The Constitutional Basis of Waugh) American Government  Economic Tools and the Rhetoric II: Senior Thesis Common Good  Democratic citizenship Science:  Justice in an Age of Globalization Anatomy and Physiology TWELVTH GRADE This course is an in-depth study of the cells, tissues, chemistry, organ systems, Humane Letters IV: The Modern World and the finely tuned electrical system by studying the history and that form our bodies and give us our representative texts of the 19th and capabilities. The textbook for this 20th centuries students will come to a course is Pearson’s Fundamentals of better understanding of modern Anatomy and Physiology. Western civilization and its relationship to the Western tradition. AP Physics C

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This course is a senior level course taken concurrently with AP Calculus. Two main AP Calculus BC units are included in this course - Electricity & Magnetism and Mechanics. The textbook we use for AP Calculus is Students cultivate their understanding James Stewart’s Calculus: Early of physics through classroom study as Transcendentals. AP Calculus AB is well as hands-on, inquiry-based roughly equivalent to a first semester laboratory work. Units of study for college calculus course devoted to Electricity and Magnetism semester topics in differential and integral include electrostatics, electric circuits, calculus. AP Calculus BC is roughly and electromagnetism. Units for study equivalent to both first and second for the Mechanics semester include semester college calculus courses. It kinematics, Newton's Laws of Motion, extends the content learned in AB to rotation, and gravitation. different types of equations and introduces the topic of Math: Students in the 12th grade can sequences and series. The disciplines take Algebra II, Math Models, Pre- that utilize calculus include physics, Calculus, or AP Calculus BC. AP Calculus engineering, economics, statistics, and AB is roughly equivalent to a first medicine. It is used to create semester college calculus course mathematical models in order to arrive devoted to topics in differential and at an optimal solution. Pre-Calculus is integral calculus. AP Calculus BC is prerequisite to enrolling in AP Calculus. roughly equivalent to both first and Latin: The Advanced Placement test second semester college calculus may be an option for particularly courses. It extends the content learned advanced Latin IV or V students desiring in AB to different types of equations and recognition for college credit. As introduces the topic of sequences and before, students who have already series. accomplished the school’s Latin

Curriculum Highlights │Page 28 requirement may instead explore a include: vocal technique, performance, different language. practice, sight-singing, and music theory. Fine Arts: Students have the option of taking High School Band, Studio Art, or Theatre: Students enrolled in Theatre Theater will learn theatre basics and will explore and study theatre history. Advanced HIGH SCHOOL FINE ARTS ELECTIVES levels will also address refined acting technique, and principles of design and Band: Introduction to band is offered to construction. students who desire to learn a band instrument, and Concert Ensemble is a Studio Art: Students develop their course which focuses on ensemble work ability to “see” and problem solve by and performing. Band is an ensemble drawing from direct observation and by which builds teamwork and self- applying techniques in a variety of discipline and provides students with classic mediums through learning and performance opportunities representational, imaginative, and on wind or percussion instruments. expressive artwork. Advanced students strongly encouraged but not required. will build a professional portfolio of artwork.

Choir: Choir is a performance-based ensemble with a focus on developing musicianship, self-discipline, collaboration and community, and a love for music. Students in choir will obtain the skills and experiences to become well-rounded musicians. These skills

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