Topics/2005

USAD Curriculum Topics
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Super Quiz

• From Empty Space to Incredible Universe--The Sky Is Not the Limit

Art

• Art from Mycenaea, Minoa, Persia, Ancient Greece, and Ancient Rome

Pieces

Ancient Near Eastern Art

• Standing Male Worshipper - Sumer
• Human-headed winged lion (lamassu) - Assyria
• Panel: striding lion - Neo-Babylon
• Vessel terminating in the forepart of a lion - Iran: Archaemenid Persia

Ancient Egyptian Art

• Status of Demedji and Hennutsen - Old Kingdom
• Model of a Riverboat - Middle Kingdom
• Section for the "Book of the Dead" of Nany - Third Intermediate Period of Egypt

Art of Ancient Aegean Civilizations (Cyclades, Minoa, and Mycenaea)

• Statuette of a Woman - Cylcades
• Palace at Knossos - Minoa
• Stirrup jar with octopus - Mycenaea

Ancient Greek Art

• Statue of a kouros (youth) - Archaic period
• Amphora (jar), Side A: Kithara Player - Classical period
• Grave stele with a family group - Classical period
• Statuette of a veiled and masked dancer - Hellenistic period

Ancient Etruscan and Roman Art

• Chariot - Etruscan
• Cubiculum (bedroom) from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor - Republic period
• Statue of a Boy - Early Roman Empire
• Arch of Constantine - Late Roman Empire

Economics

• Economics of the ancient world.

Language & Literature

• 3 plays instead of the novel (all by Sophocles): Antigone, Oedipus Rex/Tyranus/the King, Electra

Shorter Selections

• Excerpt from Book XXII of the Iliad - Homer
• Allegory of the Cave - Plato
• Ode on a Grecian Urn - John Keats
• Musée des Beaux Arts - W. H. Auden
• To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph - Anne Sexton
• Siren Song - Margaret Atwood

Math

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

Music

• Classical music: Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven

Songs

• Voi che sapete from Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• String Quartet in D Major, op. 64, no. 5, The Lark finale: vivace - Joseph Haydn
• String Quartet in G, K. 387, molto allegro - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• String Quintet in G Minor, K. 516, adagio non troppo - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Symphony no. 44 in E Minor, Trauersinfonie allegro con brio - Joseph Haydn
• Son imbrogliato io già from La Serva Padrona (The Maid as Mistress) - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
• Symphony no. 104 in D, finale, spiritoso - Joseph Haydn
• Die Schöpfung (The Creation), Recitative and Chorus: In the beginning - Joseph Haydn
• Piano Concerto in A Major, K. 488, allegro - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Ah taci ingiusto core from Don Giovanni - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Eroica allegro con brio - Ludwig van Beethoven
• String Quartet in C-sharp Minor, op. 131 Presto (scherzo) - Ludwig van Beethoven
• String Quartet in C-sharp Minor, op. 131 Allegro (finale) - Ludwig van Beethoven

Social Science

• Ancient civilizations with a focus on Rome, Greece, Egypt and Mesopotamia