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The curricular theme for 2009-2010 will be the French Revolution.

The 2009-2010 USAD logo.

Super Quiz[edit]

The Super Quiz™ will focus on the French Revolution, and the Super Quiz™ Resource Guide will include readings on such topics as the Old Regime (Ancien Régime), the causes of the French Revolution, the radicalization of the revolution, the revolution in Saint-Domingue (Haiti), and the legacy of the French Revolution.

Art[edit]

The art curriculum topic will be 18th and early 19th century French art, and the curriculum will include the study of eighteen selected artworks.

Pieces[edit]

Rococo[edit]

Neoclassicism[edit]

Romanticism[edit]

Portraiture[edit]

Economics[edit]

The economics curriculum will cover fundamentals of economics, including general topics in macro- and microeconomics and international trade and global economic development. The economics curriculum will also include a thematic section focused on the economic history of Revolutionary France.

Language and Literature[edit]

The language and literature curriculum will include critical reading, one novel, and six shorter works. The featured novel will be A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.

Short Works[edit]

  • A Song of Liberty from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake
  • The French Revolution as It Appeared to Enthusiasts at Its Commencement by William Wordsworth
  • The Dedication from Don Juan by Lord Byron
  • Excerpt from The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Excerpt from A Vindication of the Rights of Men by Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Excerpt from Rights of Man by Thomas Paine.

Math[edit]

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

Music[edit]

The music curriculum will focus on music in France during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and will include a companion CD, featuring fourteen listening selections.

Songs[edit]

  • Tic-Toc-Choc, Franois Couperin
  • Brillant auteur de la lumire, from Iphignie en Aulide by Christoph Willibald Gluck
  • Cosa sento from Le nozze di Figaro and L ci darem la mano from Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Symphony No. 85 (La Reine de France) by Joseph Haydn
  • La Marseillaise and Chant du neuf Thermidor by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
  • Le chant du dpart by tienne Mhul
  • Hymne la statue de la libert by Franois Joseph Gossec
  • March of the Priests and Thunderstorm from La vestale by Gaspare Spontini
  • March to the Scaffold from Symphonie fantastique by Hector Berlioz
  • Salve Regina from Dialogues of the Carmelites by Francis Poulenc


Science[edit]

The science curriculum will focus on an introduction to chemistry and will include a brief overview of the historical development of chemistry with particular focus on the role of Antoine Lavoisier.