Thematic Cycle Year B
Each year there are five cycles of work. At the beginning of each cycle and week, students receive study guides identifying the work they will accomplish during that cycle. The cycle format is designed to help students develop organizational, decision-making and time-management skills.
Forces
What forces and dynamics cause life?
Searching for meaning and purpose through exploring the big questions like, “Why am I here?”
Structures
How are things put together?
Critically think about events; reason and debate
Power
How do we use power to meet our needs?
Critically think about events and ask the “why” questions; reason and debate.
Language Arts
UNIT 1: Short stories & irony
Lamb to Slaughter, Lather & Nothing Else, Button, Button, and Ruthless
UNIT 2: Brown Girl Dreaming
UNIT 3: Holocaust and Civil Rights book club
Daniel's Story, Milkweed, The Book Thief, Night, Train, I Have Lived a Thousand Years, Warriors Don't Cry, The Endless Steppe, The Diary of a Young Girl: Anne Frank
Natural World
Social World
Personal World & Health
Math
Changes
How are things transformed?
Feed the creative drive, develop identity