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"

Unit 2

• "The Odyssey" through Book 4
• Introduction to Greek Drama
• Introduction to Humanism
• The Story of Gould Hall - Deconstructing a building

Unit 3

• "The Odyssey" through different lenses
• Philosophy
• Pre-Socratic Presentations
• "The Odyssey" - Presentations

Unit 4

• "The Odyssey"
• Pericles
• Plato's Allegory & "The Odyssey"
• Plato's Allegory & "The Odyssey"

Unit 5

• Assessment #1
• Epicurus et. el.
• Epicurus and Seneca
• Introduction to Rome
• Nero and Rome - A Misnamed "Bad Boy"?

Unit 6

• Virgil's "Aeneid"; Aristotle vs. Plato; Roman Art
• Electra
• Electra
• Literature of old in art

Unit 7

• References to Art
• Architecture
• Discussion Groups; Latin and Ovid
• Ovid and Ravenna Mosaics

Unit 8

• Ovid and Projects
• Aya Sofia and Byzantine Monuments
• Byzantine Art
• Romanesque

Unit 9

• Romanesque
• Review Jeopardy

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Semester Break
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• Introduction to Dante
• Dante

Unit 10

• Dante and St. Denis
• Dante
• Dante
• Dante
• Gothic

Unşt 11

• Chaucer
• Introduction to "The Name of the Rose"

• "The Name of the Rose"

Unit 12

• "The Name of the Rose"

• "The Name of the Rose" and into The Florentine Renaissance
• Renaissance; Vasari; "The Prince"

Unit 13

• Uffizi; Florentine Art
• Renaissance
• The Sistine Chapel and The Renaissance
• Dante and The Renaissance
• Introduction to "Hamlet"

Unit 14

• Shakespeare and "Hamlet"
• "Hamlet": Act 1, Scene 3

• "Hamlet"

• "Hamlet", Act 2

Unit 15

• Art and "Hamlet"
• "Hamlet"
• "Hamlet"
• Medievalism Revisited with Guest Speaker, Banu Pekol
• "Hamlet"

Unit 16

• Assessment on Hamlet through Act 3, Scene 1
• Northern Renaissance

• Northern Renaissance
• "Hamlet" III, 2

Unit 17

• "Hamlet"
• "Hamlet"
• Final Research Work