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This course is designed to familiarize students with the broad outlines of European history from the Renaissance and Reformation to the present. It covers the startling religious, economic, intellectual, scientific, technological, political, artistic, cultural, ideological, and social changes that have come to shape not only Western civilization but also world civilization in general. Because so much of modern history has been dominated by Europe, and because Europeans pioneered the crucial historical processes that have since been experienced, to lesser or greater degrees, by the entire global community, this course focuses particular attention on events and developments in Europe, while at the same time trying to shed light on the changing patterns of interaction, articulation, and domination that have characterized the relationship between the nations of Europe and the rest of the world. There will be a heavy emphasis throughout the course on primary source reading as well as student writing.

The fundamental purpose of the Geometry course is to introduce students to formal geometric proof and the study of plane figures, culminating in the study of right triangle trigonometry, circles and three-dimensional figures. Students begin to prove results about the geometry of the plane by using previously defined terms and notions. Similarity is explored in greater detail, with an emphasis on discovering trigonometric relationships and solving problems with right triangles. This course uses the Big Ideas Math Geometry textbook. Students will investigate, conjecture, validate, generalize, extend, connect, communicate and reflect upon mathematical ideas.

Political theory analyzes the meaning and significance of fundamental concepts in politics. 

Starting from such basic concerns as the nature of politics, humans, power and justice, political theorists explore how these basic starting assumptions organize the laws, practices, and institutions of political and social order. 

In this introductory course, students will investigate some of the basic texts in political theory, with the goal of learning how to read texts more analytically and to address fundamental questions in political theory. 

This course reads a wide selection of historical texts from Plato to Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Biotechnology and MSR2

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COURSE OVERVIEW:

elcome to 8^th Grade English and Literature class!  I am delighted to have you as a student!  And I invite you to prepare your imaginations for a journey where we will encounter heroes, villains, the redeemed, and the fallen.  Over the course of the year, you will meet classic characters (Kino, Napoleon the Pig, Scrooge, Scout, Atticus Finch, Romeo, Juliet and many more), and you will grow in your understanding of the great conversation literature presents – the conversation about what it is to be human.  You can join the great conversation and, in addition, cultivate new ideas and skills that will develop you into a stronger reader, writer, speaker, and thinker.

Are you ready for the journey?

Music Appreciation 7 focuses on the Romantic Era of music. The class will study the lives and the music of the composers who lived between 1800-1930, and will also study Blues and Jazz. other topics that will be covered will include: music theory, understanding the evolution from classical music to romantic music, and exploring by composing or analyzing a jazz piece. 

History is a record of the past. In this class we will ask: what drives human behavior? How have humans adapted and improved their societies and way of life? What causes change over time? 

The 8th Grade Religion course will systematically examine how God reveals Himself to man. This course will examine natural revelation - what can be known about God by contemplating creation itself - and then moving to the two modes of Divine Revelation: Sacred Tradition and Sacred Scripture. Most of the course will focus on an examination of Divine Revelation as found in Sacred Scripture, showing how the Bible can be seen as one story in which the New Testament is hidden in the Old, and the Old Testament is revealed in the New. The central figure of Divine Revelation, and therefore of this course, is Jesus Christ.