High School Humanities

Engage with philosophy, ethics, world religions, and cultural studies at the high school level.

13 lessons

Grade 9 Humanities

6 lessons

  • Ancient China

    The learner explains the Mandate of Heaven, compares the teachings of Confucius, Daoism and Legalism, and explains how the Qin unified China and how the Han empire governed, traded along the Silk Roads and invented…

  • Ancient Greece

    The learner compares Greek city-states, explains Athenian democracy and citizenship, and describes Greek achievements in science, philosophy, theatre and the arts and their influence today.

  • Maya, Aztec and Inca

    The learner describes the Maya, Aztec and Inca states and the diversity of other Indigenous peoples of the Americas, including those of present-day Brazil, and their achievements.

  • Atlantic Slave Trade and Abolition

    The learner explains how the transatlantic slave trade worked, the lives and resistance of enslaved people in the Americas, and how abolition movements ended the trade and slavery.

  • First Civilizations

    The learner explains why the first cities and states arose in Mesopotamia, the Indus valley and early China, and what writing, law, trade and religion meant for them.

  • Novel Study

    The learner tracks character, conflict, setting, symbol and theme across a whole novel, relates it to its context and writes about it.

Grade 10 Humanities

7 lessons

  • Ancient Greece

    The learner compares Greek city-states, explains Athenian democracy and citizenship, and describes Greek achievements in science, philosophy, theatre and the arts and their influence today.

  • Maya, Aztec and Inca

    The learner describes the Maya, Aztec and Inca states and the diversity of other Indigenous peoples of the Americas, including those of present-day Brazil, and their achievements.

  • Atlantic Slave Trade and Abolition

    The learner explains how the transatlantic slave trade worked, the lives and resistance of enslaved people in the Americas, and how abolition movements ended the trade and slavery.

  • First Civilizations

    The learner explains why the first cities and states arose in Mesopotamia, the Indus valley and early China, and what writing, law, trade and religion meant for them.

  • Novel Study

    The learner tracks character, conflict, setting, symbol and theme across a whole novel, relates it to its context and writes about it.

  • Thinking Like a Historian

    The learner uses sources as evidence, places events in chronological order and periods, and explains causes, consequences, change and continuity, significance and different interpretations.

  • World Literature

    The learner analyses how works from other countries, in English or in translation, reflect a point of view or cultural experience and compares works across cultures.

Grade 11 Humanities

8 lessons

  • Colonial America

    The learner explains how Native nations, European empires and African captives shaped colonial North America, compares the economies, societies and governments of the New England, Middle and Southern colonies, and…

  • Constitutional Convention

    The learner explains the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation, analyses the debates and compromises of the Constitutional Convention, and compares Federalist and Anti-Federalist arguments in the ratification…

  • American Civil War

    The learner explains how conflict over slavery and its expansion divided the United States, why the Southern states seceded, and how the Union won a war that became a war to end slavery.

  • American Revolution

    The learner explains how the Seven Years' War led to an imperial crisis, how colonial resistance became a war for independence, what the Declaration of Independence claimed, and how and at what cost the United States…

  • Maya, Aztec and Inca

    The learner describes the Maya, Aztec and Inca states and the diversity of other Indigenous peoples of the Americas, including those of present-day Brazil, and their achievements.

  • Atlantic Slave Trade and Abolition

    The learner explains how the transatlantic slave trade worked, the lives and resistance of enslaved people in the Americas, and how abolition movements ended the trade and slavery.

  • Novel Study

    The learner tracks character, conflict, setting, symbol and theme across a whole novel, relates it to its context and writes about it.

  • Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny

    The learner explains how the idea of Manifest Destiny, settlers and wars pushed the United States to the Pacific, and evaluates the consequences for Native nations, Mexico and the balance between free and slave states.

Grade 12 Humanities

2 lessons

  • Constitutional Convention

    The learner explains the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation, analyses the debates and compromises of the Constitutional Convention, and compares Federalist and Anti-Federalist arguments in the ratification…

  • Novel Study

    The learner tracks character, conflict, setting, symbol and theme across a whole novel, relates it to its context and writes about it.

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