Core Humanities Concepts
Forms 5 and 6 engage in a two-year cycle of rotating core concepts, deepening their understanding across disciplines.
Form Five Concepts:
Over the course of two years, Form Five students study American Literature and Composition alongside American History from the Colonial Period to the present day through thematic units. As a culmination of each of these years of study, students complete a Final Project on the overarching concepts of Freedom and Identity.
Year One:
We Hold These Truths - From Foundations of Freedom to
Titans of Industry in America
Freedom from Tyranny: Colonial Beginnings and Revolution
Freedom of Influence: Becoming a Global Power
Freedom to Expand: Westward Expansion
Freedom for All: The Civil War and Reconstruction
Freedom to Grow: Immigration and City Life in the Gilded Age
Freedom to Work: The Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Year Two:
The American Project - War, Work, Wealth, and Walls
Global Identity: The 1910's
Identity of Gains and Losses: The 1920's and 1930's
Identity of Sacrifice: The 1940's
Identity of Home: The 1950's
Racial Identity: The 1960's
Individual Identity: The 1970's
Political Identity: The 1980's and 1990's
National Identity: The 2000s through Today
Click here for examples of the literature woven into various Form Five units every year.
Form Six Concepts:
In Form Six, students explore large questions about identity, community, and purpose through modern, postmodern, ancient, and medieval literature and history. In their first year (11th grade), they engage with contemporary ideas and their relationship to culture and Scripture. In the second year (12th grade), they examine classical texts that explore humanity’s relationship with God, family, and society, deepening their appreciation for both universal and culture-specific expressions of these themes.
Year One:
Articulating Antiquity - Classical Explorations of Philosophy,
Literature, History, and Thinking.
Relationship to the Divine
Relationship within Families
Relationship to Society
Year Two:
Colliding Cultures - The Modern to Post Modern Age Across the Globe
Innocence and Experience
Rebellion and Brokeness
Resistance and Restoration