Great Hearts Curriculum Overview · Great Hearts 6th-12. th. Grade Core Reading List . Great Hearts...
Transcript of Great Hearts Curriculum Overview · Great Hearts 6th-12. th. Grade Core Reading List . Great Hearts...
Great Hearts 6th-12th Grade Core Readin List
Great Hearts Curriculum Overview
K 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th
Ri s Phonics, Spellin & Vocabulary
En lish
History
Touchstones Great Books
Readin & Literature
Grammar & Composition
American History / World Histor y / Geo raphy
Literature & Composition
Intro to the Ancient Medieval
American History History
Tradition
Humane Letters: American Tradition
Humane Letters: Modern Europe
Humane Letters: Ancient Greece
Humane Letters: Rome to Modernity
Math Sin apore Math Pre-
Al ebra Al ebra I
Al ebra I / II
Geometry Colle e Al ebra /
Tri Calculus
Science Core Science The Nature of Science
Life Science
Earth Science
Biolo y Physics I Physics II Chemistry
Forei n Lan ua e
Spanish / Latin Latin
Adv Latin or
Mod Lan I
Adv Latin or
Mod Lan II
Greek I or
Mod Lan III
Greek II or
Mod Lan IV
Fine Arts Choral Music
Crafts & Studio Art
Intro to Fine Arts
Music & Studio Art Music & Poetry Studio Art & Drama
Other Competitive Chess Study Skills Workshop
Economics Colle e
Admissions 101
Senior Thesis
Physical Education
• • • • • • Competitive Athletics
Please note that, due to differences in surrounding feeder schools, there are slight variations in the middle school mathematics offerings at the Great Hearts schools.
Some Great Hearts academies do not have Primar Schools. Please contact Grea t Hearts Academies for Primar School campus locations and offerings.
2nd Inaugural Address Lincoln The Last Battle Lewis The Adventures of Huckle err y Finn Twain Letter from the Birmingham Jail King, Jr. The Aeneid Virgil Lord of the Flies Golding Anne Frank: The Diar y of a Young Girl Frank Mac eth S akespeare Anti-Federalist Papers Various Mar ury vs. Madison Antigone Sop ocles Medea Euripides Apology Plato Meditations on First Philosophy Descartes As I Lay Dying Faulkner Meno Plato Auto iography of an American Slave Douglass Merchant of Venice S akespeare Bacchae Euripides A Midsummer Night’s Dream S akespeare Beowulf Heaney (trans.) The Miracle Worker Gibson Bernice Bo s Her Hair Fitzgerald My Antonia Cat er The Bi le (selections) The Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle Billy Budd Melville No Exit Sartre The Brothers Karamazov Dostoevsky An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Bierce Brown vs. Board of Education Odyssey Homer The Call of the Wild London Oedipus the King Sop ocles The Canter ury Tales C aucer The Old Man and the Sea Hemingway The Chosen Potok On Civil Diso edience T oreau A Christmas Carol Dickens One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Solz enitsyn The Clouds Aristop anes The Oresteia Aesc ylus The Communist Manifesto Marx Othello S akespeare Confessions Augustine Our Town Wilder The Constitution of the United States Paradise Lost Milton Crime and Punishment Dostoevsky Paradiso Dante Crito Plato Phaedrus Plato The Cruci le Miller Plessy vs. Ferguson The Declaration of Independence Jefferson Poetics Aristotle Democracy in America de Tocqueville Politics Aristotle Discourse on Method Descartes Pride and Prejudice Austen Discourse on the Origin of Inequality Rousseau The Prince Mac iavelli Don Quixote de Cervantes Protagoras Plato Enchiridion Epictetus Purgatorio Dante The Epic of Gilgamesh S in-eqi-unninni Reason in Histor y Hegel Essays Montaigne Red Badge of Courage Crane Euthyphro Plato The Repu lic Plato Federalist #10 Madison Rip Van Winkle Irving Federalist #15 Hamilton A Rose for Emily Faulkner Federalist #39 Madison Second Treatise of Government Locke Frankenstein S elley Selected Writings Marx Gorgias Plato Shane Sc aefer The Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck Sinners in the Hands of an Angr y God Edwards The Great Gats y Fitzgerald Song of Roland Sayers (trans.) Heart of Darkness Conrad Summa Theologica Aquinas Henry V S akespeare A Tale of Two Cities Dickens The Histories Herodotus Tales of the Greek Heroes Green History of the Peloponnesian War T ucydides The Tempest S akespeare The Ho it Tolkien To Build a Fire London Iliad Homer To Kill a Mocking ird Lee Inferno Dante Utopia More Julius Caesar S akespeare Walden T oreau The Jungle Sinclair The Wind in the Willows Gra ame King Lear S akespeare Young Goodman Brown Hawt orne
Great Hearts
classical education, revolutionar schools
Great Hearts A ademies Lead Offi ce 444 North 44th Street, Suite 100 Phoenix, Arizona 85008 The Great Hearts Mission 602.438.7045 Great Hearts
Great Hearts Academies is a non-profi t ACADEMIES
or anization dedicated to improvin public Veritas Preparatory A ademy 2131 East Lincoln Drive
education in the Phoenix metropolitan area by Phoenix, Arizona 85016 602.263.1128
developin a network of excellin preparatory www.veritasprepacademy.or
academies. Great Hearts is provin that Chandler Preparator y A ademy 1951 North Alma School Road Chandler, Arizona 85224
schools can do a superb job of educatin 480.855.5410 www.chandlerprep.or
students if schools are smaller and set hi her
expectations for all students throu h a core, MESA
PREPARATORY ACADEMY
Mesa Preparatory A ademy 1303 South Lindsay Road Mesa, Arizona 85204 480.222.4233 Gr eat Hear t s classical liberal arts curriculum. EST 2006 www.mesaprep.or
ke facts Glendale Preparatory Academy
Glendale Preparatory A ademy 7151 West Beardsley Road Glendale, Arizona 85308
Average T ition for K-12 C rric l m
Great Hearts Closest District Elite Schools Private Schools Great Hearts
Est. 200 7
623.889.0822 www. lendaleprep.or
S ottsdale Preparator y A ademy 7496 East Tierra Buena Lane
$0 $0 $163,785 classical education, revolutionar schools Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
480.776.1970 Average SAT Scores (Reading + Math) www.scottsdaleprep.or
Great Hearts Closest District Elite Teleos Preparator y A ademy
Schools Private Schools 1401 East Jefferson Street Phoenix, Arizona 85034
1270 1012 1211 602.275.5455 www.teleosprep.or
Percent of St dents who Attend 4-Year College Anthem Preparator y A ademy
Great Hearts Closest District Elite 42101 North 41st Drive, Suite C-101
Schools Private Schools Phoenix, Arizona 85086 623.465.4776
95+% 34% 95+% www.anthemprep.or
Percent of Fac lty with Doctorates Ar hway Classi al A ademy - Chandler 1951 North Alma School Road
Great Hearts Closest District Elite Chandler, Arizona 85224
Schools Private Schools 480.855.6474 www.archwaychandler.or
7% 1% 5% For infor mation on F t re Academies
please visit the Great Hearts Academies website. Elite Private Schools = Avera e of the four hi hest performin priva te preparatory
schools in the Valley
Closest District Schools = A re ate of ei ht district schools comprisin the schools
closest to the Grea t Hearts Academies w w w . r e a t h e a r t s a z . o r w w w . r e a t h e a r t s a z . o r