Upper Division Curriculum: Grade 6 2016 – 2017

GRADE HUMANITIES AND LANGUAGE ARTS / MATH SCIENCE LANGUAGE ARTS AND DESIGN WELLNESS AND
WORLD COURSE ENGLISH MOVEMENT

6 RISE AND FALL JOURNEYS SINGAPORE MATH ENVIRONMENTAL SPANISH AND CHINESE DRAMA WELLNESS
OF ANCIENT SCIENCE
CIVILIZATIONS • The Hero’s Journey • Positive and negative • Taught using • Playmaking • Sports leadership
and the importance numbers on a • Resources of the immersion method • Elements of great • Nutrition
• The impact of of personal grit number line earth and space • Multiple levels offered storytelling: wants, • Sexual health–puberty
geography and • Personal journeys • Greatest and least • Weather, kinetic • Focus on written conflict, change • Risky situations/
environment • Why do we tell stories common factor energy, heat and spoken decision making
• Technological and how do form • Algebraic concepts transfer, convection, communication ART • Mindfulness
advances and structure inform including simplifying air pressure • We abide by ACTFL
• Specialization meaning? and evaluating • River ecology standards for World- • Principles and MOVEMENT
• Governance and • Dystopian literature algebraic expressions Readiness and we elements of art,
authority • Multiplying and believe language is • Materials and • Chelsea Piers fitness
• Why do civilizations dividing decimals and about communication, methods rotation
rise and decline? fractions cultures, connections, • Drawing lab • Movement literacy:
• The Silk Road • Ratio (comparisons comparisons and • Creative process • Functional movement
• The study of cultural and equivalence) communities. journals • Speed agility
diffusion • Rates and unit rates • In our teaching, we • Art history quickness
• Investigation into • Percent enable students • Art analysis • Running mechanics
visual and written • Coordinate geometry through interpretive • Yoga poses
primary and listening and reading, MUSIC • Sports-specific skills
secondary sources presentational
speaking and • Vocals or
writing; interpersonal instrumentals: brass,
communication. woodwinds, strings,
guitar
Upper Division Curriculum: Grades 7–8 2016 – 2017

GRADE HUMANITIES AND LANGUAGE ARTS / MATH SCIENCE LANGUAGE ARTS AND DESIGN WELLNESS AND
WORLD COURSE ENGLISH MOVEMENT

7 THE MODERN WORLD INNOVATIONS AND SINGAPORE MATH HUMAN BODY SPANISH AND CHINESE DRAMA INTERSCHOLASTIC
REVOLUTIONS ATHLETICS FOR
• 1492 onward: major • Real number systems • Photosynthesis and • Taught using • How to tell a great GRADES 7-8
changes that have • Value of literary • Integer operations respiration immersion method story: physical
shaped our modern characters • Algebraic expressions • Combustion and • Multiple levels offered communication, WELLNESS
world • Exploration of change • Algebraic equations climate change • Focus on written rhetorical device • Sexual health/
• The Enlightenment • Dilemmas and change and inequalities • Structure, function and spoken relationships - puberty
ART
and the scientific • Making good • Geometry and health of body communication • Flourishing/PERMA/
revolution decisions • Basic statistics and systems • We abide by ACTFL positive psychology
• Principles and
• The Columbian • A lens on historical probability • Energy transformation standards for World- • Gratitude
elements of art,
Exchange fiction • Applied math Readiness and we materials and methods, • Empathy
• Slave trade • Social change believe language is drawing lab-focus on • Optimism
• The Industrial about communication, anatomy, form and • Resilience
Revolution cultures, connections, content, narrative in • Character strengths
• Systems thinking comparisons and art, creative process • Growth mindsets
abilities communities. journals, art history • Mindfulness
• In our teaching, we explorations, art techniques
enable students analysis: “i see. I think.” • Socio-emotional life
through interpretive skills
listening and reading, MUSIC
presentational MOVEMENT
speaking and • Vocals or • Movement literacy
writing; interpersonal instrumentals: brass, • Functional movement
communication. woodwinds, strings, • Speed
guitar • Agility
• Quickness
8 • Running mechanics
MOVEMENT OF THE CITY AS A LENS EXETER MATH PHYSICAL SCIENCE DRAMA
• Yoga poses
PEOPLE, BOOK ONE AND CELLULAR
• Sports-specific skills
URBANIZATION • Coming-of-age BIOLOGY • Creative risk-taking
• Sport leadership
AND DEMOGRAPHY Stories • Absolute value and
ART • Nutrition
• What makes the city systems of inequalities • Newton’s laws
• Exercise science
• Case studies of unique? • Linear equations and • Atomic structure
• Principles and • Fitness principles
historical and modern • Immigrant stories inequalities • Electromagnetic
elements of art
world cities • Power and politics: • Linear motion spectrum
• Materials and methods
• The modern city the struggle for power and related word • Investigation of life
• Drawing lab
comes of age problems and matter
• Distortion/
• The growth of the city • Exponents and • Diversity of cells, exaggeration
• Focus on New York radicals functions and representation
City • Solving equations processes • Abstraction arc
• Immigrant stories with one and two • Germination of an idea
• The American dream variables in multiple media
and “the dream • Scientific notation • Creative process
deferred” • Factorization journals
• Social movements in • Quadratic equations • Art history
the modern world: and parabola • Original project design
civil rights • Imaginary numbers
MUSIC

• Vocals or
instrumentals: brass,
woodwinds, strings,
guitar
Upper Division Curriculum: Grades 9–10 2016 – 2017

GRADE HUMANITIES WORLD COURSE MATH SCIENCE LANGUAGES ARTS AND DESIGN WELLNESS AND MASTERY
MOVEMENT

9 GLOBAL WORLD COURSE 9 INTEGRATED INTEGRATED • Taught using REQUIRED INTERSCHOLASTIC • Mastery seminar:
HUMANITIES: MATH 1 SCIENCE 1 immersion method ATHLETICS Introduction to
FOUNDATIONS • Institutions and • Multiple levels • Introduction to the Mastery
culture • Word problems • Structure and offered creative process • Practice four times
• Rise of ancient • Geography and • Real, rational and organization of • Focus on written a week and some
China resources irrational matter and spoken ELECTIVES Saturdays
• India  • Linear equations • Atomic Structure communication
• Ancient Islam and inequalities and Function • We abide by • Drama workshop WELLNESS
• Ancient Mali • Absolute value • Forces and Motion ACTFL standards • Music theory and
• Equations and • Electricity and for World- Practice workshop • Character
inequalities Electrostatics Readiness and • Vocal workshop strengths
• Systems of • Waves and we believe • PERMA
equations Communication language is about • Mindful decision
• Exponents and Systems communication, making
radicals • Digital Information cultures, • Exercise science
• Quadratic Systems connections, • Sex and
functions comparisons and relationships
• Pythagorean communities. • Drugs/decision
theorem • In our teaching, making
• Parametric we enable • Altruism
equations and students through • Mindfulness
vectors interpretive techniques
listening • Mindful eating
and reading,
presentational MOVEMENT
speaking
10 MODERN WORLD COURSE 10 INTEGRATED INTEGRATED and writing; ELECTIVES • Various rotations • Mastery workshop
GLOBALIZATION: MATH 2 SCIENCE 2 interpersonal at Avenues,
CAUSE AND • Economics communication. • Design and Chelsea Piers
EFFECTS • Ecosystems • Geometric • Energy, power and engineering and local fitness
• Ethics and transformations conservation of workshop boutiques
• Colonization technology • Angles and energy theorem • Visual arts (kickboxing, Row
• The Enlightenment structure of • Modes of energy workshop House, Soulcycle,
transformation and etc.)
• The scientific geometric proofs • Drama workshop
modern energy • FMCs (functional
and industrial • Congruence • Music theory and
sources movement
revolutions theorems practice workshop
• Chemical reactions capacities)
• The rise of modern • Quadrilaterals, and combustion • Vocal workshop
Islam medians, angle • SAQs (speed,
• Carbon footprint agility, quickness)
• The World Wars bisectors and other costs of
• Triangles and their • Functional
energy use
properties movements
• Global climate
• Polygonal regions system
and their areas • Interrelationship
• Parallel lines between humans
• Volume and and their
surface ecosystems
• Area of solids • Designing solutions
• Circles to environmental
• Triangle issues
trigonometry
ELECTIVES
• Similarity
• Advanced physics
Upper Division Curriculum: Grades 11–12 2016 – 2017

GRADE HUMANITIES WORLD COURSE MATH SCIENCE LANGUAGES ARTS AND DESIGN WELLNESS AND MASTERY
MOVEMENT

11 AMERICAN STUDIES ELECTIVES INTEGRATED BIOCHEMISTRY • Taught using ELECTIVES INTERSCHOLASTIC • Mastery workshop
MATH 3 immersion method ATHLETICS
• Colonial America • Economics of • Conditions for life • Multiple levels • Film arts
• Revolution violence and • Functions on earth offered • Digital • Practice four times
• Sectionalism peace • Matrix operations • The chemistry • Focus on written photography a week and some
• Civil War and • Innovation and and transformations of life and spoken • Programming Saturdays
Reconstruction entrepreneurship: • Trigonometric • Cellular structure communication • Drama in
• The Gilded Age theory and practice functions and sustaining life • We abide by production WELLNESS
• Reform movements • Trigonometric • Gene expression ACTFL standards • Music theory and
• Imperialism and identities and genetics for World- practice • Character strengths
WWI • Inverse • Growth and Readiness and • Exercise science
• Boom and Bust trigonometric health of we believe • Sex and
• WWII and the Cold functions multicellular language is about relationships
War • Polynomials organisms communication, • Drugs/decision
• Post-WWII • Exponential and • Genetic cultures, making
America and civil logarithmic functions engineering connections, • Altruism
unrest • Conic sections • Evolution and comparisons and • Mindfulness
• Sequences and diversity of life communities. • Mindful eating
series • In our teaching,
• Permutation, ELECTIVES we enable MOVEMENT
combination and students through
probability • Advanced biology interpretive • Rotations at
• Advanced listening Avenues, Chelsea
ELECTIVES chemistry and reading, Piers and local
• Astronomy presentational fitness boutiques
• Statistics • Psychology speaking • Functional move-
and writing; ment capacities
interpersonal • Speed, agility,
communication. quickness
• Functional
movements

12 ENGLISH 12 ELECTIVES ELECTIVES ELECTIVES • Senior Studio Art INTERSCHOLASTIC • Mastery workshop
• Film arts ATHLETICS
SENIOR SEMINARS: • Introduction to • Advanced biology • Digital
• Economics of
violence and Calculus I & II • Advanced Photography • Practice four times
• The fallen angel • Calculus AB chemistry • Programming a week and some
• Sustainable cities peace
• Innovation and • Calculus BC • Physics C • Drama in Saturdays
• Design and
entrepreneurship: • Statistics • Astronomy Production
engineering
theory and practice • Psychology • Music theory and
incubator
practice
• The politics, art &
science of color

ELECTIVES

• Journalism: Theory
and Practice
• Principles of
Economics
• Modern Middle
Eastern History