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Study Abroad Summer Course Information Session
February 3, 2016 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
An event every day that begins at 7:00 pm, repeating until February 11, 2016
Led by award-winning Montclair High School humanities teacher Greg Woodruff, Study abroad this summer in Athens, Rome, Siena and Florence!
June 22 – July 17
Imagine discussing the meaning of life in the very places Socrates, Plato and Aristotle pondered the same thing, then heading to the Plaka for some souvlaki. Exploring the Roman baths in the ancient port of Ostia, then cool off in the crystal warm waters of the Tyrrhenian Sea. Take fresco painting lessons in Florence and compare your work to the frescos of Giotto while eating your favorite gelato.
This new course, Democracy and Aesthetics, examines how and why the art and artifacts of those periods came into existence and what they meant to the cultures that produced them. Students investigate how cultures reveal their values in the material culture and practices they create and support. They’ll focus on European periods that distinctly resonate with our own American culture: The Hellenic period’s rhetoric, philosophy, and idealism; the Roman Republic’s engineering and civil laws;, and the civic-mindedness and aesthetic sensibility of Renaissance Florence and Siena—the time periods our Founding Fathers considered when setting up the American democracy.
Not only will this trip engage students with concepts of democracy, it will also be a formative, thrilling experience they can share with colleges in applications, as well as be a formative adult experience, a touchstone in their lives as citizens of the world.
This “field trip” can be taken as an elective English course for a full year credit at Montclair HS. (The 160-hour English course is aligned to the Common Core Standards and the NJ CCCS, so students from other districts can seek approval from their individual high schools.) For rising high school sophomores, juniors and seniors. 20 students maximum.
Information sessions open to all interested students and parents will be held at Montclair High School, 100 Chestnut Street in Montclair, Rm. 208
Dates are
Wednesday, February 3 at 7:00 PM,
Thursday, February 4 at 2:45 PM.
Thursday, February 11, at 2:45 and 7:00 PM
Contact Mr. Woodruff at gwoodruff@mpsdnj.us or gwoodruff@montclair.k12.nj.us for more information or check out www.quidditytours.com.
