Humanities 9 Curriculum Outline – 2015-2016
Victoria Dryden, Priscilla Lindberg, Heather McKey, Adina Meyer, Calvin Shaw
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I
Unit
Reading
Activity
Five Elements
of society
Family of Man
Lord of the Flies
writing exercises
critical essay
Myth
World Myths
Myth and Archetypes
Integrated
Ancient Near East
Gilgamesh epic
Ancient law codes
Bible selections
creative responses
law codes project
Ancient
Far East
Tao Te Ching
Oedipus Rex
II
III
IV
Classical
Civilizations
Bhagavad-Gita
Buddhist scriptures
Siddhartha
response writing
critical essay
Antigone
critical essay
Selections from
Plato, Thucydides &
other primary sources
philosophical writing
Middle Ages
The Qu’ran
Film: The Seventh Seal
Primary accounts of
the Black Death
The T’ang Dynasty Poets
response papers
critical review
The Canterbury Tales
Othello
creative writing
critical essay
ESL integration activity
build your own Hell
The Inferno
The Secret History of the Mongols
V
Renaissance,
Reformation,
Age of Exploration
readings packet
Tournament of Knowledge
notes from the year various activities