Topics/2010
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The curricular theme for 2009-2010 will be the French Revolution.
Super Quiz
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
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
Rococo
Mezzetin by Jean-Antoine Watteau
Soap Bubbles by Jean-Simeon Chardin
Wine Cooler by Vincennes Porcelain Factory
Broken Eggs by Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Shepherd's Idyll by Francois Boucher
Neoclassicism
Modern Rome by Giovanni Paolo Panini
The Death of Socrates by Jacques-Louis David
The Triumph of Aemilius Paulus by Carle Vernet
Minerva Protecting the Young King of Rome by Joseph-Antoine Romagnesi
Romanticism
Stormy Coast Scene after a Shipwreck by Horace Vernet
The Start of the Race of the Riderless Horses by Horace Vernet
Royal Tiger by Eugene Delacroix
Young Jewish Woman of Algeria, Seated by Theodore Chasseriau
Portraiture
Portrait of a Young Man by Pompeo Girolamo Batoni
Self-Portrait with Two Pupils by Adelaide Labille-Guiard
Bust of Voltaire by Jean-Antoine Houdon
Princesse de Broglie by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Economics
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
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
- 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
The math curriculum will cover topics in the fields of general math, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and differential calculus.
Music
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
- 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
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.
