This team-taught, interdisciplinary course focuses on the literature, history and art of particular historical periods: Classical Greece, Byzantium, the Renaissance, and Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Europe. Each period is studied through the great works that it produced and the people who produced them. These civilizations are studied with concern for the great themes that surface repeatedly. Students will develop their critical thinking skills through a variety of written assignments, oral presentations and creative projects. Students may choose to take the course for one or both years of the two-year cycle and may choose to earn either English or Social Studies credit. A unique feature of the course is the opportunity for extensive field study. There are several required field study trips within Greece, and one optional trip each year to either France or Italy.

"This course examines how the concept of the American Dream shapes American literature from the mid-19th to the late-20th century. Emphasis is placed on the ways in which American literature tries to expose or resolve ideological binary oppositions and ambiguities generated by the concept of the American Dream in different cultural periods, from Romanticism to Realism, Modernism, and Postmodernism. Students will study the dynamic interrelation between literary text and cultural context as well as content and aesthetic form in a variety of texts from all four major literary forms: Prose: Fiction, Prose: Non-Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. In the process, they will develop skills in both the contextual and close reading of a text as well as advanced critical thinking, commentary, essay writing, and research skills. Focus is placed on encouraging students to create literary commentaries and essays that demonstrate deep understanding of a text, sophisticated appreciation of the author’s aesthetic choices as well as use of advanced academic vocabulary, coherent structure, and supportive evidence. Texts studied:

The Chemistry course is designed for 10th grade students and aims to develop an understanding of the properties, composition, structure and transformations of matter along with energy transfer and chemical reactions. Topics in the course include Properties of matter and Phase Changes, Structure of Matter: Atoms, Elements and Compounds, Relative Atomic mass, Isotopes, Periodic Table and Periodic Trends, Bonding and Compound Formation: Naming inorganic compounds, Chemical Formulae and Equations, Molecular and Formula Mass, Quantities and Equations: Conservation of Mass, The Mole and Avogadro's number, Chemical Reactions: Reaction Types, Balancing chemical equations, Stoichiometry, Solutions, Acids and Bases, Reaction Rates, Oxidation Reduction and Electrochemistry, Introduction to Organic Chemistry.

This rigorous course introduces the basic concepts of Calculus. Topics covered in this course include a study of Limits and Continuity, Differentiation and Integration, Applications of Derivatives and Integrals, Differential equations and Mathematical Modeling.

This course for 11th and 12th graders aims to develop an understanding of the structure and functioning of natural systems. It will encompass the social, ethical and economic impacts of human activities focusing on current environmental problems and their underlying scientific principles. The student will understand the cause- effect relationship of human activities on the environment and all other living species. The concept of interdependence will be stressed throughout. Topics include: Atmosphere, Hydrosphere, Lithosphere, Biosphere, Pollution, The Greenhouse Effect and Global Warming, Ozone Layer and Biodiversity/Resource Loss. Activities include reading, written assignments, reviews (e.g., of articles, news items, documentaries), scientific investigations outdoors as well as the laboratory and field trips.