THE SPIRIT OF PEACE AND THE SOLDIER Dance Drama – Class 10 – Middle Lesson Catarina was new to the school – and to Class 10. She had arrived in a very unhappy state indeed, being somewhat of an introvert – an ugly duckling indeed! Even the friendly solicitations of the other students had not […]
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Birth of Venus: 10th Grade Art History
DUSK OF THE SPIRIT DAWN OF THE SOUL *** Art History – Class 10 Baroque to Impressionism An education in Art History is an ‘Aesthetics Education’ – in the best Schiller tradition. Or the ‘picture’ aspect of aesthetics at least. This is particularly so with 16-year-olds, who are in this year of seven, from 14 […]
Birth of Venus: 10th Grade Commercial Art
I Want to be a Graphic Artist! Commercial Art – Class 10 Art Teacher knew that this 3-week afternoon block unit would be more difficult than most. It was Graphic Arts, and prior to her becoming a high school teacher, she had been the studio manager of a large city commercial art studio. There’s […]
Birth of Venus: 10th Grade Portrait Sculpture
Pictorializing Personalities Portrait Sculpture – Class 10 Art Teacher sat in her airy studio at home staring at a series of sculptural heads, ranging in period from Ancient Egypt to the present. The personalities of the long-dead people portrayed spoke to her via the hands of their also long-dead artist, who crafted their various […]
A Steiner High School: The 10th Grade Student
THE MARTIANS HAVE LANDED – CLASS 10 “Hai!” roared the instructor, and twenty 16-year-olds advanced in attack mode. The teenagers were hardly a hand-picked lot, preparing for a commando raid behind enemy lines; they were girls and boys of all sizes and shapes – some a little too plump for good health, other rather then […]
Spiritual Science: 10th Grade Marine Biology
DEATH OF THE RAINBOW SERPENT Marine Biology – Class 10 – Middle Lesson The Aboriginal people of Cape York, the most northerly tip of Australia, tell of the arrival, out of Mother Ocean, of the Rainbow Serpent. After many stupendous acts of terrestrial Creation, this great being returned to its maritime home and, in exhaustion, […]