Eleventh Grade

• Studio Art/Art History: Includes both studio art and the history of art from primitive ages through the early Christian era.
• Drama: A semester-long acting workshop teaching the basics of voice, movement and interpretation.  Students perform a dramatic work at the end of the semester.
• Calculus: The first semester focuses on functions used in calculus, derivatives, slope of a tangent, and the limit of slopes of secants. The second semester includes the study of integrals, sequences and series, and differential equations. There is a heavy emphasis on graphs and the use of graphing calculators (TI-83’s). Students use the text Calculus from Graphical, Numerical and Symbolic Points of View by Houghton Mifflin.
• Physics I: Newtonian mechanics is the focus of this first year of physics. Study is enhanced by experimentation, problem-solving using algebra and calculus, and the use of MATLAB ®, a computer program that can model physical behaviors based upon calculations of forces, energies and momentums in small steps of time. Students will use the text Physics: Principle with Applications, Vol. 1, 6th edition by Ed Giancoli.
• Modern Language II: This course continues the study of the student’s choice of language.
  If in the Classics Track, the students begin a study of ancient Greek.
• Humane Letters Seminar: Writings from the ancient Greek period are the focus of the eleventh grade seminar. Rigorous discussion and reflective, disciplined writing are vital to this course.  Readings include Homer’s The Iliad and The Odyssey, Aeschylus’ Oresteia, Plato’s Meno, Crito, Phaedo, Apology, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Republic, Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War, Aristotle’s Ethics and Politics (selections).
• Junior Colloquium – International Conflict: Students engage in an historical study of what causes wars and what shapes the way we fight them. Students move among a variety of subject areas: history, political science, military science/intelligence, and current events. Their geopolitical scope spans the globe. Their historical scope stretches from ancient Greece to contemporary Iraq.

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