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Gr 12 | 6 Credits | Year-Long | 5x per Cycle |
Gr 12 | 6 Credits | Year-Long | 5x per Cycle |
* Students selecting this course must register for course 140A (honors level) and will be given the option to take this course at the ACP level at the start of the course.
* Students selecting this course must register for course 140A (honors level) and will be given the option to take this course at the ACP level at the start of the course.
*Satisfies Senior English Requirement
*Satisfies Senior English Requirement
This course must be taken with Social Studies Humanities course (semester-long). Humanities 12 earns a total of 9 credits (6 English; 3 Social Studies).
Do you want to do interdisciplinary work that investigates fundamental human questions spanning centuries, and places around the world? Might you want to be part of a tight-knit community that strives to see you as a person and scholar? The combination of English and Social Studies takes place in a number of ways throughout the course. You'll read English texts through a social science lens and/or a historical context. You'll use literature as a tool to examine Social Studies topics. You'll take a single idea and explore it across the two disciplines. This combined approach allows students to further immerse themselves in the course material to gain a fuller understanding of themselves within the context of their world. This past year, the course paired an introduction to Sociology and Psychology with Lahiri’s The Namesake. Concepts such as tyranny, family and cultural dynamics, and colonialism with Adiche’s Purple Hibiscus. The role of storytelling and meaning-making with Shakespeare’s Hamlet, excerpts from Lepore’s The Name of War, two documentaries - This Changes Everything and The Destruction of Memory, and KCRW’s Diaries of a Divided Nation. An exploration of what is real and what is true with the Wachowski’s The Matrix and excerpts from Harari’s 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. Small group discussions, individual conferencing, class projects and activities are often built around choice, with choice pointing students to an examination of identity and the human experience. If you are interested in learning more about the world around you, as well as finding the connections across different subjects, then this course is for you.
Essential Skills:
Reading
Students will recognize subjective and objective responses to a text.
Students will make text to self connections
Students will read analytically without direct instruction by the teacher, tracing characterization, theme, vocabulary
Students will craft discussion questions and engage in sustained, self-directed discussion.
Writing
Students will be able to write formally about oneself
Students will develop personal voice in writing while using personal anecdotes as evidence
Students will fuse analytical writing with personal writing
Students will use show not tell language
Students will fuse analytical writing with personal writing while examining ways to organize and analyze that expand on the structured 5-paragraph essay format
Speaking & Listening
Students will be able to deliver a polished speech employing appropriate body language, eye contact, inflection, and enunciation.
Students will be able to listen and respond appropriately and constructively to their peers.
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