2014 -2015 Based on a 10-day System of 5 x 80-minute Blocks. Holidays are taken into account.
Projected Topics (Subject to change according to student interest, etc.)
Unit 1
- What does it mean to be culturally literate?
- "2001" - Different lenses for "2001"; Themes / Lenses
- "Ozymandias" and Essential Questions
- "The Odyssey"
- "The Odyssey"
- "The Odyssey" through Book 4
- Introduction to Greek Drama
- Introduction to Humanism
- The Story of Gould Hall - Deconstructing a building
- "The Odyssey" through different lenses
- Philosophy
- Pre-Socratic Presentations
- "The Odyssey" - Presentations
- "The Odyssey"
- Pericles
- Plato's Allegory & "The Odyssey"
- Plato's Allegory & "The Odyssey"
- Assessment #1
- Epicurus et. el.
- Epicurus and Seneca
- Introduction to Rome
- Nero and Rome - A Misnamed "Bad Boy"?
- Virgil's "Aeneid"; Aristotle vs. Plato; Roman Art
- Electra
- Electra
- Literature of old in art
- References to Art
- Architecture
- Discussion Groups; Latin and Ovid
- Ovid and Ravenna Mosaics
- Ovid and Projects
- Aya Sofia and Byzantine Monuments
- Byzantine Art
- Romanesque
- Romanesque
- Review Jeopardy
Semester Break
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- Introduction to Dante
- Dante
- Dante and St. Denis
- Dante
- Dante
- Dante
- Gothic
- Chaucer
- Introduction to "The Name of the Rose"
- "The Name of the Rose"
- "The Name of the Rose"
- "The Name of the Rose" and into The Florentine Renaissance
- Renaissance; Vasari; "The Prince"
- Uffizi; Florentine Art
- Renaissance
- The Sistine Chapel and The Renaissance
- Dante and The Renaissance
- Introduction to "Hamlet"
- Shakespeare and "Hamlet"
- "Hamlet": Act 1, Scene 3
- "Hamlet"
- "Hamlet", Act 2
- Art and "Hamlet"
- "Hamlet"
- "Hamlet"
- Medievalism Revisited with Guest Speaker, Banu Pekol
- "Hamlet"
- Assessment on Hamlet through Act 3, Scene 1
- Northern Renaissance
- Northern Renaissance
- "Hamlet" III, 2
- "Hamlet"
- "Hamlet"
- Final Research Work