12‐Week FULL CURRICULUM for 2 NE Unit Adolescent Educa on — WEEKS 1 TO 6   Mon: HISTORY Tues: SCIENCE Weds: ENGLISH Thurs: MATH Fri: ARTS Supplement 

1 ‐ ANCIEN

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Alexander of Macedon: Why Was He So Great?

The Inclined Plane: How the Pyramids

Were Built

Achilles in the Iliad: The First Modern Hero

Construc ng the Triangle: Geometry as

Pythagoras Did It

From Formal to Natural to Ar ficial: Evolu on

of Classical Art

A Comedy Tonight: The Roman Stage

Map exercise: Alexander’s Empire. Film: Alexander 

Lab: Measure mechanical ad-vantage on model pyramid ramps. 

Film: Building the Great Pyramid 

Iden fy main characters. Read Achilles’ struggle in verse transla on. 

Film: Troy 

Construct midpoint, hexagon with compass and straightedge. 

Prove Pythagorean theorem w/o  numbers. 

Choose correct period / style for sculptures in a Museum. 

Build the Parthenon — in  propor on. 

Name stock characters Read and act Plautus scenes. Film: A Funny Thing Happened on

the Way to the Forum 

2 ‐ MED

IEVAL

Feudalism: Life and Death for Serfs and

Lords

Medieval ‘Science’: Natural Philosophy vs.

Theology

Humor in Medieval Culture: Chaucer’s ‘The

Miller’s Tale’

Coun ng by the Numerals: Medieval

Number Systems

Song and Stone: Bringing God to Life on

Earth

Christendom vs. Islam: God's Civiliza ons at

War Analyze the feudal pyramid. Iden fy parts of manor economy. Black Death: source reading, map. 

Debate proof of God from Summa Theologica. 

Lab: Analyze medieval humors. 

Middle English Jeopardy game. Listen to reading from Prologue. Read translated verse passages. 

Learn Roman Numerals. Use an abacus to calculate without conversion to Arabic. 

Listen to Gregorian Chants Interpret stained glass windows Film: Building Chartres Cathedral 

Assemble the Seven Pillars Map expansion of the Faith Film: The Message 

Commercial Revolu on: Trade, Finance, and

Explora on

Galileo and the Heliocentric Universe

Hamlet’s Indecision: Who To Trust? What To

Do?

Degrees and Days: The Mathema cs of

Time and Place

Renaissance Art: Bringing Man and God

to Life

Mar n Luther: Reformer of the Church

Map trade routes of medieval Europe. 

Build dioramas of the spice trade in Calicut vs. Lisbon 

IN DEVELOPMENT  Read prose retelling of the play. Film: RSC’s Hamlet, Act I Close readings of two soliloquies. 

IN DEVELOPMENT  Five aspects of Renaissance art. Compare altarpieces 1270 to 1517. Draw in 1 and 2 point perspec ve. Iden fy the Great Masters. 

Interpret several of the 95 Theses. Protestan sm v. Catholicism Film: Luther 

4‐EARLY MO

DERN

Charles vs Cromwell: Does England Need A

King?

Light & Blood: The Scien fic Revolu on in

England

Paradise Lost: An Epic of English Faith

and Liberty

Variables, Points, and Lines: Graphing With

Algebra

Faces With Class: 17th Century Portraits

The New World: Encountering the

Indians Compare 1628 Pe on of Right with U.S. Cons tu on. 

Film: Cromwell 

Unscramble stages of an  experiment. 

Lab: View color wheel in colored lights. 

Relate pulse to blood flow in heart. 

Plot summary of the poem. Close reading of the opening, compared to other epics. 

Read parts of Books I, III, and IX. 

Number theory underlies algebra. Use algebra to solve equa ons. Use Cartesian system to plot linear equa ons. 

Iden fy symbols in nobles’  portraits 

Prac ce drawing faces accurately Film: The Girl With The Pearl

Earring 

John Smith’s changing stories Film: A New World 

5 ‐ REVOLU

TION

Privilege, Liberty, and Blood:

The French Revolu on

The Strata Tell The Tale: Finding the Age of the

Earth

Reason and Roman cism:

A Literary Revolu on

Money and Measurement: The Decimal Revolu on

Revolu onary Art and Music: The Rise of

Roman cism

Heroic Myth: Washington Crosses

the Delaware Iden fy members of the three Estates 

Timeline: Moderates v Radicals Film: The French Revolu on

Calculate age of earth from the Bible 

Lab: Iden fy rock samples Lab: Analyze a strata column 

Write a heroic couplet Pope’s epigrams; Swi ’s ‘Proposal’ Blake’s ‘Lamb’/’Tyger’; ‘Ozymandias’ 

Calculate using Bri sh money Calculate using decimal currency Solve metric and English measures 

Model Museum Exhibit w Classic and Roman c Pain ngs 

Listen to Beethoven’s Fi h Symphony 

Campaign Map of 1776 Film: The Crossing 

6 ‐ IND

USTRIAL

Coal, Cloth, and Change: Britain’s Industrial

Revolu on

Power and Energy: Harnessing Wind, Water, and Steam

Oliver Twist: Irony in Text and Film

Inves ng at Interest: The Price of Risk

Victorian Architecture: The Slaves Rise Up: Resistance, Repression,

and 'Amistad' Game: Who Wants to be a Co on Millionaire? 

IN DEVELOPMENT  Read Chapters 8-9 for examples of Irony as literary device. 

Films: Oliver Twist and Oliver!

Calculate percents and interest rates 

Study stocks, bonds, and risk Game: Invest in 1830s America 

Build model of Victorian RR sta on with trusses and different walls. 

Match Victorian house ground plans to eleva ons. 

Accounts from whites and slaves Debate: Uprisings helped or hurt? Film: Amistad 

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St Vincents of Westchester  By John Magoun. September 2016 

  Mon: HISTORY Tues: SCIENCE Weds: ENGLISH Thurs: MATH Fri: ARTS Supplement 

7 ‐ NATIO

NALISM

Na ons United At Last: Germany and Italy

This View of Life: Darwin’s Evolu onary

Theory

American Literature Comes of Age: Moby‐Dick & Leaves of Grass

Factoring: The Road to Quadra cs

Roman c Realism: 19th Century Pain ng and

Opera

Ge ysburg: Turning Point of the Civil War

IN DEVELOPMENT  Lab: Match evolving whale  skeletons to animal images. 

Film: Evolu on: Great Transforma on 

Read Moby‐Dick for pessimis c portrayal of ill-fated Ahab. 

Read Leaves of Grass for op mism in Whitman’s world-view. 

Build Table of Primes Build Prime Factor Trees Use FOIL and reverse-FOIL to factor 2-digit decimal numbers 

Trace lines of composi on in pain ngs 

Compare opera arias. Film: Ponnelle’s Rigole o 

Tac cs at Li le Round Top Film: Ge ysburg

8 ‐ IMPERIALISM

Imperialism: How Europe Took Over The

World

Invisible Forces: Electricity and

Magne sm

The Horror: European Voyage to The Heart of Darkness

The Donut and The Coffee Mug: Intro to Topology

Color, Light, and Paint: Impressionists /

Post‐Impressionists

The Souls of Black Folk: Afro‐America in 1900

Match period caricatures to lands in the Bri sh Empire 

Films: Mangal Pandey and Zulu 

Diagram a circuit Lab: Assemble parallel and series  circuits 

Lab: Assemble a rotary electric motor 

Read plot summary, focus on Kurtz. 

Finding Themes exercise. Read excerpts from Heart of

Darkness 

Graph Seven Bridges of Konigsberg Use Four Colors on any Map Build and Explore the Moebius Strip. 

Match pain ngs to descrip ons Color wheel and blending  exercises 

Film: Seurat’s La Grande Ja e

Washington v. DuBois Census data on black and white literacy 

9 ‐ GREAT W

AR

World War I: The Stalemate of Trench Warfare

Freudian Psychology: The Id and Ego in

Science and Literature

The Great Gatsby:  Class and Money in the

Jazz Age

Lenses on the Universe: Exponents

and Scien fic Nota on

Sha ered Forms in 1913: Modern Art Breaks the Rules

Warm Springs: Rebirth of F.D.R.

Re-enact outbreak of war. Analyze problem of trench warfare Films: Western Front & Paths Glory 

Lab: Ink blot interpreta on. Re-enact a personal conflict using angel v. devil cartoons. 

Psycho-analyze The Cat in the Hat

Read plot synopsis. Read excerpts with theme of class. Film: The Great Gatsby (Redford) 

Use parallax to measure distance. Powers of ten in scien fic  nota on. 

Film: Powers of Ten 

Make Cubist collages of celebri es ‘Descending A Staircase’ 

Films: Sleeping Beauty & Rite of Spring 

Pro- and An - New Deal cartoons FDR audio: “I welcome their  hatred!” 

Film: Warm Springs 

Defea ng Germany: Did Strategic Bombing

Bring Victory?

Nuclear Fission: A Theory Comes to Life

— and Death

Nineteen Eighty‐four: Nightmare of a

Totalitarian Future

Symbolic Logic: Proofs and Paradoxes in Poli cs and Math

Modern Art and Architecture:

Moving To Pure Form

We Can Do It! Women Soldiers, Women Workers

Prac ce bombing Schweinfurt factory 

Experience an air raid on the ground 

Film: Twelve O’Clock High 

Calculate atomic weights in fission Lab: Use magnets to plot the inverse square law of nuclear force. 

Film: Day One 

Read plot synopsis. Read excerpts with theme of control. 

Film: Nineteen Eighty‐four

Use Truth Tables to develop  proposi ons and prove  theorems. 

Video: Goedel’s Theorem 

Cri cize three modern buildings. Analyze forms in ‘Guernica’ and Pollock’s ‘Convergence’. 

Videos on: Architecture, Guernica, Jackson Pollock. 

Read stories of servicewomen. Compare textbooks on social class  of ‘Rosie the Riveter’. 

Videos: ‘Candyman’ vs. Andrews Sisters; Women in factories. 

11 ‐ COLD W

AR

Accidental Atomic War: ‘Fail‐Safe’

Cladis cs and Gene cs as the Keys to Modern

Evolu onary Theory

Bodega Dreams:  The Literature of Spanish Harlem 

Numbers Beyond Count: Sta s cs in

Educa on and Sports

Burning Down the House: The History of

Rock Music

Manned Space Flight: Successes and Failures

Read U.S. and Soviet war plans Plot flowchart of WW III Analyze accidents that almost led to nuclear war 

Film: Fail‐Safe 

Lab: Build cladogram: starfish are closest invertebrates to us. 

Color Hox genes for flies & humans Film: Evolu on: Great

Transforma ons

What is Spanglish and Nuyorican? Read poem: ‘La Bodega Sold Dreams’ 

Read excerpts from Bodega Dreams 

Sampling, Tables and Graphing. Plot histogram: inpa ent stays in Unit. 

Film: Moneyball

Trace styles on School of Rock chart 

Listen to 10 songs over 36 years. Plot class like vs. dislike of them. 

Triumphs and disasters in space Film: Apollo 13 

12 ‐ PRESENT D

AY

King, Chisholm, Jackson & Obama:

Black Presidents for White America

Global Warming: The Measure of An Inconvenient Truth

A Visit From The Goon Squad: Viewing the Postmodern Novel

The Power of Two: Bits, Bytes, and Binary

Math

Challenge of the Post‐Modern: Art in the 21st

Century

Class In America: Can It Be Ignored?

Graph percentages of black voters. Study videos of black candidates’ speeches over 40 years. 

Graph increasing carbon levels Lab: effects of warming  on biomes Film: An Inconvenient Truth 

Iden fy postmodern literary tools Graph plot line by Time & Loca on Read excerpts from Goon Squad Interpret Ch. 12 Power Point slides 

What is a computer? Flowchart of an algorithm Exercises in binary mathema cs 

Styles of Contemporary Art:  Landscapes. 

Iden fy Contemporary abstracts. ‘Art Monopoly’ game  

Read about becoming middle class Class Poker: draw educa on cards. 

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St Vincents of Westchester  By John Magoun. September 2016 

12‐Week FULL CURRICULUM for 2 NE Unit Adolescent Educa on — WEEKS 7 TO 12