Humanities Curriculum
Humanities courses combine Literature and English Language Arts with Social Studies to broaden our students’ understanding of what it means to be human and why it is important to have a socially just world. Special emphasis is placed on the lives, work and history of women and people of color.
Middle School Academy
Seventh grade covers “Humanities in the Ancient World,” Mesopotamia-Ancient Rome. Eighth grade covers early American History from the earliest American civilizations to the creation of the United States Constitution.
Junior Academy
Ninth grade focuses on the relationship between one’s identity and one’s role in the local and national community. Tenth grade analyzes how Science, Economics, and government policies affect membership in American society. It also analyzes the role of individual (social) responsibility to challenge injustices.
See examples of student work here.
Senior Academy
Eleventh grade explores the people and ideas that shaped the United States from before the nation's founding to after the Civil War. Twelfth grade examines the way people interact with their government across history and today. Civil Wars and independence movements around the world have taken many different shapes, and each holds lessons for how we as Americans should interact with our government in 2011.