Themes & Essential Questions

Framing Inquiry & Promoting
Critical Thinking

 

 

 

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Designated Themes

Grade 6:
Culture: Values, Beliefs,
& Rituals
Grade 7:
Adversity, Conflict & Change
Grade 8:
Social Justice
Grade 9:
Decisions, Actions,
& Consequences
Grade 10:
Utopia & Dystopia
Grade 11:
The American Dream
Grade 12:
See Senior Semester
Course Curricula

 

Additional Themes
Chaos & Order
Constructing Identities

Creation

Freedom & Responsibility
Good & Evil in the World
Heroes & Sheroes
The Human Condition
Illusion vs. Reality
Language & Literature
Love & Sacrifice
Nature in the Balance
Our View of Ourselves
& the World
Past, Present & Future
The Pursuit of Happiness
Relationships & Community
Shades of Truth
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The Human Condition

  • In the face of adversity, what causes some people to prevail while others fail?

  • What is the meaning of life?

  • What is the meaning of life and does that shape our beliefs regarding death?

  • Are we governed/guided by fate, free will, a greater power, or do we fall somewhere on the spectrum between?

 

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