A Four-Year journey through History and the Written Word

To master the use of language and develop a complex understanding of human history is to develop an understanding of one’s self.  Our high school literature and history teachers are charged with understanding the importance of their tasks and approaching each class with skill and enthusiasm. 

As with the sciences, subjects are chosen which speak to each age’s specific needs and stage of development. 

In ninth grade, as the child’s own physical body undergoes a transformation unlike any other, the students study the revolutions of history.  At the same time, the study of tragedy and comedy in drama mirrors each student’s own developing view of the world. 

In the tenth grade, as the students come into balance with the world before them, they study the roots of Western thought, from The Odyssey to the Bible as literature. 

The eleventh grader is ready to meet the world with honesty and intensity.  Dante’s Inferno, Hamlet, and the German epic Parzival help each student examine their own developing relationships with others. 

By the time students reach twelfth grade, they are ready to step back and ask big questions about religion, ethics and morality as they seek to discover themselves.  The Brothers Karamazov and the work of the transcendentalists meet them at this final stage of their journey.