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Modules
The modules run in a three year cycle:
The Wine Dark Sea - The Ancient World
Into the Greenwood - The Medieval & Renaissance World
Brave New Worlds - The Modern World
Athletics
Students will:
- engage in the ancient pentathlon to develop physical virtues
- train in pankration (the ancient art of unarmed combat) to hone resilience,
wit, strength, & timing
the Muses
- Homer's Odyssey
- Plutarch's Lives
- Hesiod's Works & Days
- Virgil's Aeneid
- Herodotus' History
- Sophocles' Oedipus
- Shakespeare's Midsummer
Night's Dream;
Comedy of Errors
Bronze
- students smelt bronze & produce ancient weapons, tools, & jewelry
- students explore transition metal chemistry, oxidation, & the properties of various metals
Clay
students will
- create ceramic ware for use in the school & to sell in the Agora (marketplace)
- engage in storytelling & painting through the decoration of urns & bowls
- transition metal chemistry & oxidation is further explored through glazing
& firing
Wine & Oil
students will:
- explore permaculture principles
by growing grapes, olives, etc.
- explore organic chemistry, acids, & bases through the making of wine & vinegar & examining interactions & reactions in cooking & other applications
- explore the benefits & problems with fermented products to encourage healthy & virtuous habits
- learn about the significance of
feasting & fasting in ancient &
modern cultures
War
students will:
- develop a sense of strategy through a series of war games set around ancient battles
- explore history & politics through decision cases set in the ancient polis
- explore arithmetic & probability through statistics &
measurement
within the game
Music & Dance
students will:
- develop grace & stamina while learning healthy ways to relate through folk dancing
- sing both liturgical & folk music, learning to hear the differences between major & minor scales as well as the modes - Ionian,
Dorian, & Phrygian
Astronomy
students will:
- learn about navigation by the stars, sun & moon using sexton & bearings
- seasonal changes are observed & related in detail in nature journals & related to the position & cycles of the sun & the moon
- exploring the constellations &
the mythology surrounding
them
The Wine Dark Sea
the ancient world
Agora
Students will:
- create, grow, harvest, and prepare various goods to sell in the marketplace
- memorize the speeches of great rhetoricians to recite.
da Vinci
& Fibonacci
students will:
- study the writings & drawings of Leonardo da Vinci & Fibonacci
- attempt to construct some of da Vinci's designs
- come up with some designs of their own
- look at the Golden Ratio & see how it applies across disciplines
- hone their skill in drawing
geometry, & physics
the Cannon
- the New Testament
- Tolkien's Sigurd
- Tolkien's Beowulf
- Shakespeare's Henry V
- Ballads of Robinhood (Anonymous)
- Mark Twain's Joan of Arc
- Tolkien's Gawain & the Green Knight
- Sigred Undset's St. Catherine of Siena
- Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice
- Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe
- Mortimer Adler's Aristotle for Everybody
Additional possible Texts:
- Chretien de Troyes' Parzeval
- Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English Peoples
- St. Athanasius's St. Antony of the Desert
- Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons
- St. Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love
- St. Hildegard of Bingen's Physica
Battles
- students will study the battles of Poitiers, Agincourt, Orleans & more
- explore history, politics, & probability through war games
Forest
students will
- explore the permaculture of the forest, gathering plants and fungi to make tinctures & salves
- plant and tend to various trees, learning what they need to thrive
- learn the plants of the
forest & their uses
Archery
students will:
- craft a long bow (using algebra & geometry
- measure trajectories & ballistics (using algebra & physics)
- build skill, patience & resilience
through regular archery
practice
Wood
students will:
- explore Young's Modulus in various types of wood (using algebra, calculus & physics)
- learn about the properties of various types of wood
- practice wood carving
& relief
Into the Green Wood
the medieval & renaissance world
Manuscript
students will:
- learn about creating parchment from animal hide
- learn about color theory & the chemical make up of various pigments as they make their own paint
- craft their own brushes from animal hair
- learn about various styles of manuscript & calligraphy as
they create their own
Ballads & Balls
students will:
- learn to sing various songs of the period
- explore instruments of the period & the mathematics behind the music
- compose their own ballads
- learn Medieval dances &
practice them
Market
students will:
- create wood carvings, manuscripts, inventions, & drawings to sell
- gather, grow, & harvest items to sell (eggs, honey, produce)
- make tinctures, salves, & more
to sell at market day
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A
students will:
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the Library
- Jack London's White Fang
- Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn
- Dickens' David Copperfield, Hard Times,
- Poetry of Gerard Manly Hopkins
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B
- students will
C
students will
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D
students will:
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E
students will:
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Brave New Worlds
the modern world