Summer 2013 Course Descriptions and Schedules - Rudolf Steiner ...
Summer 2013 Course Descriptions and Schedules - Rudolf Steiner ... Summer 2013 Course Descriptions and Schedules - Rudolf Steiner ...
Segment Two - High School Curriculum CoursesSegment Two—High School Curriculum Courseswith Program Director, Betty Staley2013 Dates: Orientation—Sunday, June 30, 2013Classes—Monday, July 1 through Friday, July 12(no class on the Saturday and Sunday in between)2013—Focus on Grades 9 and 10•Grades Nine and Ten Seminar•Knowledge of the Human Being I, II, or III•Curriculum Studies I-English, History, Physics, Chemistry, Spanish, Mathematics, Art•The Time Arts-Eurythmy, Speech•Elective Art I•Inner development of a high school teacher.2014—Focus on Grade 11•Grade Eleven Seminar•Knowledge of the Human Being I, II, or III•Curriculum Studies II-English, History, Physics, Chemistry, Spanish, Mathematics, Art•Time Arts-Eurythmy, Speech•Elective Art II•Governance in a Waldorf School2015—Focus on Grade 12•Grade Twelve Seminar•Knowledge of the Human Being I, II, or III•Curriculum Studies III-English, History, Physics, Chemistry, Spanish, Mathematics, Art•Time Arts-Eurythmy, Speech•Elective Art III•Communication SkillsSummer 2013 Details:Opening Talk:by Dr. Allegra Alessandri“One Person, Two Journeys: Founding an Independent Waldorf High School and a Public Waldorf-Inspired High School”.12
Morning CoursesKnowledge of the Human BeingInstructors: Year 1 students will be with Anouk Tompot; Year 2 students with Betty Staley; and Year3 students with Patrick Wakeford-Evans.This course covers the threefold nature of the human being including the 12 senses, nervous, rhythmicand metabolic systems, and thinking, feeling, and willing. This course is taken over 3 years, each yearfocusing on a third of the book. Required reading: The translation entitled Study of Man by Rudolf Steineris preferred to the newer translation entitled Foundations of Human Experience.9th/10th Grade CurriculumEnglish with John WulsinWeek 1: 9th grade course focuses on 2 key Main Lessons: “Comedy and Tragedy” through the polaritiesof Apollo and Dionysus, and “The Novel” through the study of Moby Dick.Week 2: 10th grade course emphasizes the epic quality of 10th grade. The Main Lesson entitled “The Artof Poetry” combines elements of poetry with the evolution of the English language. Course also exploresthe Bible as a major source of global imagination.Mathwith Lisa BabinetWeek 1 and 2: Mathematics in the 9th and 10th grades. Mornings include heavier emphasis on algebraicwork and numerical calculations, while afternoons emphasize geometry. Additional topics may includecombinatorics, quadratic equations trigonometry, conic sections, and a calculation of pi. Anecdotal topicsof relevant mathematical interest to the participants will also be addressed.Historywith Betty Staley, Paul Gierlach, and Diamela WetzlWeek 1: 9th grade: Explores revolutions, including economic, political and cultural factors for 3 days. Forthe 2 following days, discussions of Paul Gierlach’s course “Individualism and Humanity” will be studied.Week 2: 10th grade: Reviews Ancient Civilizations of Mesoamerica and South America.Also covers Ancient Civilizations of Mesoamerica and South America from 3000 BCE to the 15thCentury CE, the period of explorations, discovery and colonization by the Spanish Crown and otherpowers of post Renaissance Europe. The geography, social structures (everyday life of the indigenouspeople), governments, religions, and science are also included. The richness of the arts are examinedspanning building, to pottery, to weaving, to painting and then to metallurgy. Also explored are theamazing capacities for community-building of the peoples of the Maya, Teotihuacan, Toltec-Aztec and IncaCivilizations of ancient America.Spanishwith Diamela WetzlWeek 1: 9th and 10th grade overview of the high school Spanish curriculum, integrating language study andculture, including an understanding of how the study of Spanish can support the development of the adolescent.Week 2: Spanish students take the Meso-American History course.Segment Two - High School Curriculum Courses13
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Morning <strong>Course</strong>sKnowledge of the Human BeingInstructors: Year 1 students will be with Anouk Tompot; Year 2 students with Betty Staley; <strong>and</strong> Year3 students with Patrick Wakeford-Evans.This course covers the threefold nature of the human being including the 12 senses, nervous, rhythmic<strong>and</strong> metabolic systems, <strong>and</strong> thinking, feeling, <strong>and</strong> willing. This course is taken over 3 years, each yearfocusing on a third of the book. Required reading: The translation entitled Study of Man by <strong>Rudolf</strong> <strong>Steiner</strong>is preferred to the newer translation entitled Foundations of Human Experience.9th/10th Grade CurriculumEnglish with John WulsinWeek 1: 9th grade course focuses on 2 key Main Lessons: “Comedy <strong>and</strong> Tragedy” through the polaritiesof Apollo <strong>and</strong> Dionysus, <strong>and</strong> “The Novel” through the study of Moby Dick.Week 2: 10th grade course emphasizes the epic quality of 10th grade. The Main Lesson entitled “The Artof Poetry” combines elements of poetry with the evolution of the English language. <strong>Course</strong> also exploresthe Bible as a major source of global imagination.Mathwith Lisa BabinetWeek 1 <strong>and</strong> 2: Mathematics in the 9th <strong>and</strong> 10th grades. Mornings include heavier emphasis on algebraicwork <strong>and</strong> numerical calculations, while afternoons emphasize geometry. Additional topics may includecombinatorics, quadratic equations trigonometry, conic sections, <strong>and</strong> a calculation of pi. Anecdotal topicsof relevant mathematical interest to the participants will also be addressed.Historywith Betty Staley, Paul Gierlach, <strong>and</strong> Diamela WetzlWeek 1: 9th grade: Explores revolutions, including economic, political <strong>and</strong> cultural factors for 3 days. Forthe 2 following days, discussions of Paul Gierlach’s course “Individualism <strong>and</strong> Humanity” will be studied.Week 2: 10th grade: Reviews Ancient Civilizations of Mesoamerica <strong>and</strong> South America.Also covers Ancient Civilizations of Mesoamerica <strong>and</strong> South America from 3000 BCE to the 15thCentury CE, the period of explorations, discovery <strong>and</strong> colonization by the Spanish Crown <strong>and</strong> otherpowers of post Renaissance Europe. The geography, social structures (everyday life of the indigenouspeople), governments, religions, <strong>and</strong> science are also included. The richness of the arts are examinedspanning building, to pottery, to weaving, to painting <strong>and</strong> then to metallurgy. Also explored are theamazing capacities for community-building of the peoples of the Maya, Teotihuacan, Toltec-Aztec <strong>and</strong> IncaCivilizations of ancient America.Spanishwith Diamela WetzlWeek 1: 9th <strong>and</strong> 10th grade overview of the high school Spanish curriculum, integrating language study <strong>and</strong>culture, including an underst<strong>and</strong>ing of how the study of Spanish can support the development of the adolescent.Week 2: Spanish students take the Meso-American History course.Segment Two - High School Curriculum <strong>Course</strong>s13
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