Schedule and Room Assignments

4th quarter classes begin the week of March 18, 2024. 

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Quarter beginning March 18, 2024
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Tuesday

9:00
9:30
10:00
10:30
11:00
11:30
12:00
12:30
1:00
1:30
2:00
2:30
3:00
3:30
4:00
4:30
5:00
D-3

American History: The 20th Century and WWII (1925-1950)*

American History: The 20th Century and WWII (1925-1950)*Closed

Quarter(s): 3,4

Day(s): Tue

Open Spots: 1

In this class, students will engage with American History from a unique, thoughtful perspective, facilitated by college professor and doctoral candidate Albert Thompson who is a “researcher, problem solver, and educator.” Professor Thompson is considered a historian of the state, culture, and conflict. He was homeschooled through high school and will guide high school students to use “ historical data to advance solutions to contemporary problems.”
The second semester will examine how during the whirlwind time of change from 1925-1950, the United States went from the prosperity of the Roaring '20s to the Great Depression and then into the global cataclysm of the Second World War only to find itself locked in an ideological Cold War with Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union. Using the era's media, the class will rediscover the society of New Deal America and how the decisions of this generation of Americans fundamentally transformed American identity and government. The students will read leading Americans' articles, letters, and speeches, including Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt, W.E.B. Du Bois, A. Phillip Randolph, and Huey Long, but also the new celebrities of classic Hollywood like Myrna Loy. They will also explore the artistic and architectural movements of the interwar period, such as monumentalism. The class will analyze how Hollywood movies and radio reshaped how Americans hoped and dreamed and were later mobilized to support the war against the Axis. Students are encouraged to buy the book Hard Times by Studs Terkel to accompany the course. The class will uncover history that is often overlooked or downplayed. Professor Thompson encourages students to think deeply about history by introducing individuals and groups in a way that lets students put themselves in others’ places. He covers the worldviews that were dominant at the time as a way to explain what motivated historical figures and decisions of the day. Conflicts will be closely examined since throughout history, war is a catalyst that causes economic and social conditions to change dramatically in the shortest period of time.

10:00 am-11:55 am

9th-12th

(Semester Long)

Dynamic Dioramas: Virginia History- The Civil War, 1861-1865*

Dynamic Dioramas: Virginia History- The Civil War, 1861-1865*Closed

Quarter(s): 4

Day(s): Tue

Open Spots: 1

Virginia experienced fighting from the earliest days of the Civil War, throughout the conflict, and at the very end near Appomattox Courthouse following the Confederacy's loss of its capital in Richmond. Virginia saw almost every type of battlefield fought in the war, from the fields of Manassas to the mountains in the Shenandoah and from the first ironclad battles around Hampton Roads to sieges on a scale never before seen at Petersburg. There is Civil War history all around Virginia. Using artistic model-making techniques, hand tools, and historical maps, students will each form a 10" X 14" shaped, foam diorama of a portion of a battlefield from the campaign. Choices will include some of the Civil War's earliest battles, like Bull Run and Manassas, the Defenses of Washington, guerilla battles in the Shenandoah Valley, or great sieges like Petersburg. Students will each receive 1:72 scale miniature soldiers to populate their scene. Once individual projects are constructed, students will combine their dioramas alongside those of their classmates to create larger scenes. Students will spend the remainder of the quarter learning about the tactics and outcomes of the military engagement while playing a table-top strategy game. Student strategists will use a simplified version of the Fire and Fury gaming rule system for moving troops and equipment. The instructor will use maps and visual presentations to explain the historical background and circumstances leading up to the specific battle. Course documents, such as period maps, game rules and all other instructional media will be available via a Google Drive link which will be emailed to parents. There is a $25.00 materials fee payable to the instructor on the first day of class. Topics in this year's Civil War Series include: First Battle of Manassas (Quarter 1); The Anaconda Plan, Civil War Naval Battles (Quarter 2); The Atlanta Campaign and Sherman's March to the Sea (Quarter 3); and The Siege of Petersburg, the fall of Richmond (Quarter 4).

2:00 pm-2:55 pm

3rd-5th

Room D-03

Battle Strategies & Dioramas: WWII- Battle of the Bulge (Tue)*

Battle Strategies & Dioramas: WWII- Battle of the Bulge (Tue)*Closed

Quarter(s): 4

Day(s): Tue

Open Spots: 0

Students will engage in a hands-on 3D battle strategy game using the military dioramas that they make! In late 1944, the outcome of the Second World War was no longer in doubt, however, the ongoing fighting was just as lethal. Hitler was desperate to pull off a miraculous victory in the West, and he set his sight on the Ardennes, a "quiet" sector of the front in Luxembourg where the Allies had sent badly damaged units to recover from fierce fighting elsewhere. The Allies believed that Germany would not invade through the forest in the winter, especially with the dire circumstances they faced everywhere else. This was a miscalculation. Hitler used this opportunity to ram the last functioning units to attempt to "drive the Allies back into the sea" and take the port of Antwerp in a conflict known as The Battle of the Bulge. Using artistic model-making techniques, hand tools, and historical maps, students will each form a 10" X 14" shaped, foam diorama with landscape elements (hills, valleys, rivers, ridges, vegetation, airfields, etc) to represent a scene of a famous historical engagement. Students will each receive scale miniature naval ships to populate their scene. Once individual projects are constructed, students will combine their dioramas alongside those of their classmates to approximate the larger battlefield terrain. Students will spend the remainder of the quarter learning about the tactics and outcomes of the military engagement while playing a table-top strategy game. Student strategists will use a simplified version of the Axis and Allies gaming rule system for moving troops and equipment. Along with their classmates, students will see how this battle progressed and test different outcome scenarios that might have occurred with different battlefield choices. The instructor will use maps and visual presentations to explain the historical background and circumstances leading up to the specific battle. Course documents, such as period maps, game rules and all other instructional media will be available via a Google Drive link which will be emailed to parents. There is a $25.00 materials fee payable to the instructor on the first day of class. Topics in this year's series include: Pearl Harbor (Quarter 1), Guadalcanal (Quarter 2), D-Day (Quarter 3), and Battle of the Bulge (Quarter 4).

1:00 pm-1:55 pm

5th-8th



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