Humanities
By the Eighth Grade, students have stopped asking, “Will I fit in?” but have started to ask “What does it mean to fit in?” and “Who decides?”
To ask critical questions and have the courage to ask these questions is at the very heart of Humanities in Eighth Grade. If we practice these actions each day, we will discover the side of American history that is filled with hope and possibility; we will discover that Claudette Colvin, age 15, refused to give up her seat on a segregated Alabama bus months before Rosa Parks. We will discover the truth from people just like ourselves.
And just as history reveals moments of hope, fiction also unfolds truths of what it means to be a person. Through other sets of lenses, we’ll dive into stories, poetry, plays, speeches and essays so that we may discover other worlds and eventually, ourselves.