Academic · High Elective
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How this course works
Reading-intensiveEssay & long-form writingArgument & logic practiceDiscussion-drivenPredictable unit rhythm“Tracing an Idea” capstone essayAcademic
The Great Thinkers
Learning to reason with the minds that shaped the world.
How the load-bearing ideas of civilization — freedom, justice, rights, science, human dignity — developed, traced through the thinkers who built and contested them.
What’s included
Everything a teacher needs, nothing they don’t.
Student Edition
The full reading, questions, and response pages — beautifully typeset for the student.
Teacher Edition
Facilitation, discussion, and coaching — walk in and teach with confidence.
Assessments
Graded on understanding, reasoning, and evidence — never on a student’s personal belief.
Units
- Before We Begin
- What Is an Idea Worth? Reason, Truth & the Examined Life
- The Good Life & the Just City
- Athens and Jerusalem
- The Turn to the Modern Self
- Reason’s Age: The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment
- Liberty, Rights & the Social Contract
- The Great Critiques
- The Modern Conversation
- Capstone: Tracing an Idea
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