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2004 Curriculum

Super Quiz

• America: The Growth of a Nation; Lewis and Clark

Art

• Thomas Jefferson - Monticello
• Unidentified Portrait Painter - Family group before United States Capitol
• Asher B. Durand - Dover Plain, Dutchess County, New York
• Winslow Homer - A Visit from the Old Mistress
• John James Audubon - Cardinal Grosbeak
• Albert Bierstadt - Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains
• Emanuel Leutze - Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way
• Hiram Powers - The Last of the Tribe
• George Catlin - The last Race, Mandan O-kee-pa Ceremony
• Unidentified Architect - Palmer-Epard Cabin
• Sikyatki Cultural Group - Bowl (Sityaki Style)
• Pueblo Nation - Taos Pueblo
• Cadzi Cody - Scenes of Plains Indian Life
• Anishinabe Nation - Cape
• Elias Bonine - Pimos Indians, Arizona
• William Henry Jackson - Grand Canyon of the Colorado
• Forman Hanna - Pueble Scene
• Ansel Adams - Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada from Lone Pine, California

Economics

• Economics of early America

Language & Literature

• Novel: Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather
• (Attributed to) Chief Seattle - Speech on the Signing of the Treaty of Port Elliot, 1855
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - XXI The White Man's Foot from The Song of Hiawatha, 1855
• Walt Whitman - Pioneers! O Pioneers!
• James Weldon Johnson - O Black and Unknown Bards (1908)
• Stephen Vincent Benet - The Ballad of William Sycamore (1923)
• Simon Ortiz - A Story of How a Wall stands (1992)

Math

The math curriculum will cover topics in the fields of general math, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and differential calculus.

Music

The subject of American music is complex and multifaceted. From the colonial period through the present, American composers, performers, and musical instrument makers have found inspiration in from Europe, Native Americans, Africa, and even Asia. The fact that some forms, blues and jazz in particular, have had their birth and development in the United States, but draw from musical materials taken from two separate continents - Africa and Europe - adds to this complex mix. In looking at American music from the colonial period on though[sic] to the early twentieth century, some key themes emerge, namely a pioneer spirit, diversity, and patriotism. While these three themes might not be applicable to every piece of American music composed throughout American history, a study of musical examples that do exhibit these characteristics can lead us through virtually every major style of music in America and the music of most of the great American composers of the past.

- Introduction from the USAD Music Resource

1. Stephen Foster - Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair (1854)
2. Stephen Foster - Camptown Races (1850)
3. Louis Moreau Gottschalk - Ojos Criollos, Danse cubaine (1859)
4. Louis Moreau Gottschalk - "The Union", Concert Paraphrase on National Airs (1862)
5. George W. Chadwick - "Andante moderato" from String Quartet in E Minor (1896)
6. Edward MacDowell - "A Deserted Farm" from Woodland Sketches, Op. 51 (1896)
7. John Philip Sousa - The Washington Post March (1889)
8. Scott Joplin - The Entertainer (1902)
9. Charles Ives - Variations on "America" (1891)
10. Morton Gould - American Salute (1943)
11. George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue (1924)
12. Charles Tomlinson Griffes - "Allegra giocoso" from Two Sketches Based on Indian Themes (1918-1919
13. Aaron Copland - Fanfare for the Common Man (1942)
14. Samuel Barber - "Adagio for Strings" from String Quartet, Op. 11 (1936)

Science

• Botany