Curriculum :: 10th Grade
Humane Letters
A Socratic seminar that combines a survey of American history through primary sources with representative American literature and philosophy including works of Hamilton, Madison, Thoreau, Douglass, Twain, Crane, Cather, Fitzgerald, Steinbeck and Wilder as well as the Shakespearean play Othello.
Algebra II
Studies the nature and behavior of functions (exponential, logarithmic, polynomial, rational, and radical), with special attention to geometric transformations, systems of equations, matrices, basic probability, and sequences and series.
Physics I
An introduction to the basic laws of nature through experiments and problem solving using trigonometry and algebra.
Music
Shifts focus from the harmonic to the melodic as students combine two to three independent musical lines to form one piece of music and perform within a choir.
Poetry
Focuses on meter and rhyme, addressing the effect and meaning of poetic technique and the learning of the language relating to meter, scansion, and forms. Poets studied include Shakespeare, Milton, Spenser, Wordsworth, Shelley, and Tennyson.
Advanced Latin or Modern Language II
Students can choose between Advanced Latin, French II, German II or Spanish II.