2025/2026 Class 12 Full Experience Details
Live Zooms in Pacific Time
Main Lesson: Monday & Wednesday 8 am
Math: Tuesday at 11 am
Guardianship: Thursday 7 am
Enrichment: Thursday 9 am (8:30 am Handwork rotation)
Tuition: $6195.00
Humanities Main Lesson Blocks
Ms. Daniela
World History: The World History block experiences strive to guide students to integrate the history blocks taught over the previous years. Throughout the block, students consider epochs from chapters in the history of the world through lenses of geographical as well as economic influences of the past and present. Individually, students are assigned project learning experiences through which they are guided to study opportunities and challenges facing a variety of countries and tasked to present their learning to the class.
Senior Project: This block is dedicated to independent senior projects students work to plan, complete, and present with support of their teacher, parents, and a personal mentor. This block invites the graduating students to explore and learn about the world and themselves. They dive into a topic of their specific personal interest and work to research, practically apply, and artistically express their findings, learning, experiences. Students are guided to choose a topic that deeply resonates with them allowing for this work to be a deeply meaningful experience. They present their projects in live class session during the last week of the block. Projects can take various forms: research papers, artistic creations, community projects, or building something tangible, depending on the student's interests.
Ms. Jaia
Faust: Goethe’s nineteenth century masterpiece Faust will serve as a centerpiece of study during this block. This work meets the students of the twelfth grade as they are seeking to find meaning, purpose and place in the world, and considering how they fit as individuals. Themes of freedom, good and evil, and the modern condition will be considered in discussion, poetically, and in essays. Students will also read related poetry, excerpts from plays, and compare the work of Faust to other great works. During this block, the students will also explore artistically with projects inspired by Goethe’s color theory.
Government/Philosophy: This block immerses students in the many timeless questions that are posed in the study of philosophy. Students will explore the origin and evolution of government and philosophy and learn about the times, lives, and intellectual contributions of essential political philosophers from Plato to the modern political thought streams (including Steiner’s threefold social order and the “-isms”: liberalism, socialism, communism, fascism, and anarchism). Through an understanding of political philosophers, students will consider and discuss their impact on modern thought and political systems. Students will read, discuss, and work with a variety of great works, explore the structure and purpose of government, and consider how the processes of politics and government work.
Guardianship Class with Ms. Daniela and Mr. Siepker
Guardianship Class: Our Guardian teachers will support the full experience students through monthly and seasonal themes of focus and various projects. Students will have support and guidance in developing capacities for managing their time, leading and collaborating as a team, finding opportunities to go out and serve their local communities, asking for help when needed, and so on.
Guardian teachers are inspired by the striving to build a sense of connection and belonging for the group that will help students create ways of both, deepening their High School community and staying accountable to themselves and their teachers in their learning and creative work.
Math with Mr. Starzynski
Math Track: This course will cover topics from Precalculus, Statistics and Data Management and Calculus. We will begin with a thorough review of precalculus concepts including simplifying radicals and rational expressions, The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra and Analytic Geometry. We will also review and extend our knowledge of logarithms and trigonometric functions. As the year continues, the class will dive into Statistics and Data Management learning to analyze, organize, and graph large groups of data. There will be projects to undertake and present and the class will look at the current state of statistics in the world. We will then begin our transition into Calculus. The class will begin this journey by thoroughly looking at average rate of change. The students will work on numerous applications from everything involving speed to changes in the pricing of lumber. The next question that will be asked is how fast is something moving at an instant in time? The class will look at estimating what is known as the instantaneous rate of change or the derivative using the average rate of change. It will become apparent that in order to calculate the derivative, we need a new concept to overcome division by zero. What we need is the mathematical concept of a limit. We will look at properties of limits and continuity and then used the average rate of change and the idea of a limit to find the formula for finding the derivative of a power function.
Math Main Lesson Block: History of Math This main lesson will begin at the beginning of time and go through the modern age highlighting the journey humankind took towards the discovery of The Calculus. The students will look at how math developed in each Era and how it developed in different ways in different parts of the world. Themes include the continuous vs. discrete debate, irrational numbers, constructions, developing infinite series and much, much more. The students will look at how mathematical development shaped human thought around the world and they will look at what came after each great mathematical discovery.
“Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.”
~ Shakuntala Devi
Science Main Lesson Blocks
Ms. Daniela
- Paleontology/Anthropology: Students will explore the origins of Homo sapiens through the lens of the Darwinian model and will be invited to compare it to other theories they may be familiar with, examining ways in which evolutionary theories show the human striving to illuminate the journey of human development. A look at human prehistoric archaeology will provide further insight into the expanding capacities of early humans, offering ways for visualizing their behavior, tools, and ways of life. Along the way, students will engage in live class conversations about anthropology, addressing unresolved scientific questions that continue to spark discussion in the field. This main lesson block draws connections to paleontology, through considerations of how the study of ancient life informs understanding of early hominins and their place in the evolutionary web. Students will develop a deeper understating of the role paleontology and archeology play in the development of our understanding of human origins and with experiences in conversations through which they will practice considering the dynamic tensions between competing worldviews.
- Chemistry: The weeks of this main lesson block will invite students to engage in explorations and hands on experiences as they are introduced to:
- Introduction to Molecular Chemistry – atoms, protons, neutrons, electrons, and valence electrons / chemical bonds (covalent, ionic, hydrogen)
- Chemical and Molecular Interactions – writing and balancing chemical equations / hydrogen bonding / factors affecting chemical reactions (temperature, concentration, catalyst, etc.)
- Biological Molecules – basic structures of carbons and simple reactions / proteins, lipids, carbohydrates / enzymes / molecular shape and size / relative masses (‘atomic weights’), molecular, formula weights
- Considerations of applications of molecular chemistry
Ms. Jaia
- Economy of Energy: Our primary focus will be the study of the conservation of energy principle through various observations, experiments, and discussions. A study of the physical laws of energy will lead us to understand that although technically energy cannot be destroyed, in its transformations into light, heat or force, which allow us to perform work, our efficiency is never 100%. We will look at the various forms of energy, including kinetic, potential, thermal, etch. Through our study of energy, we will also look at renewable and non-renewable energy sources and the properties of electricity. The students will exercise their ability for mathematical thinking in work with topics such as energy potential difference.
Enrichment is incorporated in your full class experience!
Meet your Four Fold Enrichment teachers!
Handwork With Ms. Maggie
We will begin the year by exploring the history of papermaking from its origins to modern day times. Students will learn to make both practical and decorative handmade paper which they will then use to make stationary and bind into several different styles of books.
Eurythmy Inspired Movement With Ms. Tiffany
The theme of the twelfth grade is “Movement in Time". Another theme is “Personal Space.” We work with both of these themes by exploring deeper work with the Zodiac, as well as, applied eurythmy. For each gesture, we will dive deep into its accompanying quality, element, season, color, body part, and sound. We will learn to walk the circle of the Equinoxes and Solstices as this helps us better understand the Zodiac. For copper rods we will learn to master and properly execute exercises previously learned, as well as, advanced copper rod exercises.
German with Mr. Dornemann
The aim of the course is to experience the German language, to get used to its sounds, acquire basic vocabulary and speaking skills. It is intended for beginners with no or little previous exposure to the German language.
In the recorded part of the lessons there will be listening and speaking activities, poems, songs, stories and tongue twisters. Students will practice speaking by repeating what the teacher presents. In our live sessions we will engage in speaking and conversation as well as call and response.
The vocabulary covered will include actions, counting, phrases, cultural references and many words describing aspects of everyday life.
Music with Mr. Mark
Building on current students’ musical abilities (including instruments played and previously studied either in school or private lessons) and prior musical experience (in school, private lessons, music, making with family and friends), we will work together to create our own unique musical compositions. We will use traditional instruments as well as “found percussion” instruments and body percussion to facilitate our explorations. The 8-week course culminates with the professional-level recording/mixing of our composition, performed by us, and presented as a digital recording for us to keep and share.
