Deep Thought High School Curriculum Year 3

This is a digital product. It will be delivered via email as a PDF.

This is not a reading guide; it is a complete 28-week (250+-page) curriculum, including lessons, assignments, exams, lectures, and supplemental materials. It also includes strategies for planning, goal-setting, and evaluating (and assigning grades for) work. It is designed for  two 14-week semesters, but I’ve included suggestions for adapting the pace for your particular homeschool. This curriculum is written for the student; there is no parent guide. (If you have questions or need support, please feel free to contact me!)

See a sample week here.

INCLUDES:

• World Literature: Japanese literature and film in the first semester. In the second semester, the class focuses on the modern African novel.

• World History: In the first semester, we’ll use Japan as a lens to examine the history of the Eastern world; in the second semester, we will turn our attention to pre-colonial African history, exploring the history of several African countries prior to European contact.

• Philosophy: Semester 1 - Shintoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism. Semester 2 introducing the major ethical schools of thoughts and using them to explore modern and classical African philosophies.

• Physics

• World Geography

• Includes weekly student planner and goal setter

Add your own math and foreign language, and you’re all set!

In addition to this curriculum package, you will need to purchase or otherwise procure copies of: Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami, Death by Black Hole by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton, Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Binti by Nnedi Okorafor. All other required readings are included in this curriculum.

This is a high school level curriculum, designed for students who are already familiar with the basic elements of literature (plot, character, theme, setting, etc.) and who are comfortable applying those skills to texts. Like most high school level curricula, it includes works that could be rated M for Mature. If mature content is a concern for you with your student, I encourage you to preview texts to assess your personal comfort level. (I read these texts with my own high school student and teach them in high school classes, but comfort levels can be very personal things.) This is a completely secular program.

With both print and digital curriculum, primary source documents and other readings are included in the curriculum. Please see the sample curriculum pages to see how this looks!

You will need to provide supplies for your science labs — we’ve included a list for each one. To use online lectures and materials, you will need access to a computer and the internet.

You do not need to use this curriculum in order. If you want to start with the curriculum we call Year 3, you can absolutely use that for your first year. Our curriculum is set up so that your grades and evaluations reflect student progress — that means you’re interested in how your student grows and develops as a learner from year to year instead of focusing on arbitrary metrics.

You should be aware: No curriculum is unbiased, but ours is intentionally progressive. We believe in decolonizing the curriculum, and our program is unapologetically against racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, and othering in all its forms. There may have been a time when curriculum could be neutral, but to be neutral within these systems is to support oppression — and we cannot do that. If you want a curriculum that presents the “other side” of things like evolution or sexism, we are probably not the best choice for your homeschool.

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