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HUMANITIES

HUMANITIES. Centennial High School. Humanities I. World Literature- vocabulary, grammar, essay writing, researching and composing a research paper (AP prep through Humanities IV)

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HUMANITIES

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  1. HUMANITIES Centennial High School

  2. Humanities I World Literature- vocabulary, grammar, essay writing, researching and composing a research paper (AP prep through Humanities IV) World History- Ancient World to the Enlightenment; critical thinking skills, analytical and purposeful reading, expository, argument and evaluative writing Art- history, analysis and hands-on practice (AP prep through Humanities IV) Music- history, analysis and appreciation

  3. Humanities II • American Government (AP) • Literature of ideology: utopias, dystopias, and the power of poetry • Art- propaganda and politics • Music- patriotism and protest

  4. Humanities III • American History (AP) • American Literature (English Language and Composition AP) • American Art- Colonial to Modern • American Music- Colonial to Modern- Concert to Pop

  5. Humanities IV • World History – 19th and 20th centuries • World Literature- 19th and 20th centuries (English Literature and Composition AP) • Art- 20th century (Art History AP) • Music- 20th century

  6. Why Humanities?

  7. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.11-12.6 Evaluate authors’ differing points of view on the same historical event or issue by assessing the authors’ claims, reasoning, and evidence.

  8. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.11-12.8 Evaluate an author’s premises, claims, and evidence by corroborating or challenging them with other information.

  9. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.11-12.9 Integrate information from diverse sources, both primary and secondary, into a coherent understanding of an idea or event, noting discrepancies among sources.

  10. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.11-12.7 Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., visually, quantitatively, as well as in words) in order to address a question or solve a problem.

  11. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.1 Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.

  12. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.1a Introduce precise, knowledgeable claim(s), establish the significance of the claim(s), distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims, and create an organization that logically sequences claim(s), counterclaims, reasons, and evidence.

  13. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.1b Develop claim(s) and counterclaims fairly and thoroughly, supplying the most relevant evidence for each while pointing out the strengths and limitations of both in a manner that anticipates the audience’s knowledge level, concerns, values, and possible biases.

  14. Humanities at Centennial • Achieves the goals of the Common Core • Provides an enriched and integrated educational program that goes beyond the Common Core in terms of sophistication, level of analysis, adherence to intellectual standards and preparation for higher level scholarship

  15. Context: Interrelationship and integration across subjects – the connections between history, literature, art and music • In essence, the best means of learning and retaining knowledge

  16. Cultural literacy: concepts and information one should know before going into college, along with understanding and communicating effectively within our culture (both nationally and globally)

  17. The power of storytelling: narratives of the past, fiction and non-fiction writing- analysis, synthesis and interpretation • Writing proficiently and effectively- expository, argumentative, evaluative, creative

  18. The human experience: what it means to be human • Differing mentalities and points of view; expressing and experiencing the abstract through prose, poetry, art and music in various genres across time and place

  19. Moral and strategic examples: philosophies; lives well and poorly lived in fiction and in fact

  20. Habits of mind: critical thinking skills in analysis(purpose, question(s), information, concepts, assumptions, point of view, implication) and in evaluation(clarity, accuracy, precision, relevance, depth, breadth, logic, fairness, significance)

  21. Recognizing patterns, anomalies, change, continuity, cause and effect

  22. Sophisticated understanding of differences/diversity: religious, cultural, intellectual, political, economical and social

  23. Awareness and assessment of conflicting viewpoints and interpretations

  24. Develop an informed and sophisticated context for understanding and contributing to present conversations

  25. Experience collegiality and join a lasting community of scholars and friends- Humanities teachers and students

  26.     “In the [humanities] there are no barriers between ideas, there is no jargon, no prevailing theory or method.  There are books [works of art, compositions of music] and readers, as on the first day of publication.  Some of the results of scholarship may be brought in to shed occasional light on and around the work, but the work is there to shed its own light;  it is not material for dissection and dissertation.  Well read, everything in it may be usefully related to the world and to the Self;  it is the role of the imaginations to forge the links.“ –Jaques Barzun

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