Humanities

Community Programming

By admin / December 6, 2022
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Essays and Pirates

By admin / December 6, 2022
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Global Paz

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A Show of Hands

By admin / December 4, 2020
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How can puppets change the way we communicate? Throughout history and around the world, humans have used puppets to pass down stories, share cultural practices, and revolt against censorship. A…

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Music That Matters

By admin / December 4, 2020
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How can music change society? Music That Matters takes a humanistic approach to the study and production of music, understanding music as a language and languages as attached to peoples,…

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Global Peace Summer School Poster

Global Peace

By admin / August 4, 2020
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What is peace? What is violence? What can you learn from Gandhi’s approach to building a nonviolent movement? While the Internet has served as a catalyst for revolutions around the…

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SDG Map Poster

SDG Map

By admin / January 8, 2020
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The UN SDG Map project will ground you with fundamental reading, research, and writing skills necessary to enter into a conversation about our global priorities. Through project-based inquiry, you will…

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Course Poster

Drawing Lines

By admin / December 3, 2019
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How does public art create place? What is the geography of public art? How and where does public art happen? Drawing Lines is an Art History Elective that investigates public…

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Course Poster

All the World’s A Stage

By admin / December 3, 2019
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How can drama be used to highlight oppression? Why? All The World’s A Stage is a combined STEAM/Humanities course that focuses on the “how” of theatrical productions and the “why”…

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Poetic Justice

Poetic Justice

By admin / December 8, 2017
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How can you become a poet of social change? If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place…

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Five Faces of Genius

Five Faces of Genius

By admin / February 17, 2015
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How do you live a more creative life? How do you understand and access your genius? How do you find your place in the world, and love it? How do…

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Ollywood

Ollywood

By admin / February 17, 2015
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What makes a movie a movie? How is storytelling through film different from storytelling through literature? Which films deserve a “thumbs-up” and which deserve a “thumbs-down” – and why? These…

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Global Peace: An integrated, project-based high school class

Global Peace

By admin / November 29, 2014
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What is peace? What is violence? What does peace look like in your community? How does peace generate peace around the world? Why are there so many stories of nonviolent…

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You Are Beautiful: An integrated, project-based high school class

You Are Beautiful

By admin / November 29, 2014
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Why is it important for art to be accessible? How does public art spark human interaction? How does art go viral? Students will examine the history of public art and…

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Equality: An integrated, project-based high school class

Equality

By admin / November 29, 2014
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“All men are born equal”. But, what about women? And, even if we are born equal, do we live in equality? How do wealth and resources fit in? In this…

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Endurance: An integrated, project-based high school class

Endurance

By admin / November 29, 2014
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How much are you willing to endure to change the world? This course will ask you to face your challenges, and learn endurance through endurance. The content of this course…

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Journalism: An integrated, project-based high school class

Journalism

By admin / November 29, 2014
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How do you know about the world? In this course, you will learn how to observe, analyze and report on current events through different media—Image, Sound and Text. In each…

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A Nation's Argument Class Poster

A Nation’s Argument

By admin / November 29, 2014
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A Nation’s Argument integrates historical and global revolutions and nation-forming with the language and logic skills needed to develop and sustain an argument. By anchoring our investigation in the birth…

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Policy: A High School Humanities Course

Policy

By admin / November 29, 2014
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Policy informs students how to use both rhetoric and argument to agree on a common good, so that living together is sustainable and nurturing. In this course, you will study…

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Rhetoric: An integrated, project-based high school class

Rhetoric

By admin / November 29, 2014
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Why do certain speeches “work” and so many others do not? Rhetoric supposes that we use language to persuade, challenge and unite, in all aspects of our lives. To awaken…

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final presentations

Winter Term Final Presentations

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March 22, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm CDT
9 West Washington St., Fourth Floor
Chicago, IL 60602 United States

National Day of Silence

April 14, 2023
9 West Washington St., Fourth Floor
Chicago, IL 60602 United States

Half-day attendance for students

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May 3, 2023
9 West Washington St., Fourth Floor
Chicago, IL 60602 United States

Faculty In-Service [No School]

June 15, 2023 - June 16, 2023
9 West Washington St., Fourth Floor
Chicago, IL 60602 United States

Graduation

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June 14, 2023
9 West Washington St., Fourth Floor
Chicago, IL 60602 United States
9 W Washington Illustration

Good Futures 5k

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May 14, 2023
9 West Washington St., Fourth Floor
Chicago, IL 60602 United States

Memorial Day -NO SCHOOL-

May 29, 2023

Shavuot begins at sundown

May 24, 2023 - May 25, 2023

Parent Org Meeting

May 10, 2023
9 West Washington St., Fourth Floor
Chicago, IL 60602 United States

Spring Term ends

June 14, 2023