This sequence explores the representation of apes in the film 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes', focusing on the transition from scientific subjects to sentient leaders. Students analyze the use of motion-capture technology and narrative techniques used to humanize non-human characters.

Une formation immersive de 12 heures destinée aux professeurs-documentalistes pour maîtriser les codes de la littérature adolescente actuelle et concevoir des stratégies de médiation innovantes au CDI.

A comprehensive workshop sequence on goal setting and visual manifestation.

This sequence investigates how the technological explosion of the 20th and 21st centuries, from the electric guitar to AI, redefined music genres and creation. Students analyze production techniques, listen for layers, and explore the concept of technology as a musical instrument.

A chronological journey through the Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Modern eras of Western Art Music, focusing on critical listening and historical context.

This sequence traces the evolution of contemporary music from 19th-century African American spirituals through the development of the Blues, Jazz, and Rock & Roll. Students investigate how cultural exchange, technology, and social struggles shaped the sounds we listen to today, culminating in a musical genealogy project.

Students learn to translate narrative fiction into dramatic scripts by analyzing storytelling modes, converting internal thoughts to external actions, and drafting their own theatrical adaptations of fables.

A technical foundation for playwriting, moving from critical analysis of dramatic structure and subtext to the mastery of professional industry formatting standards and scene composition.

A comprehensive playwriting sequence that takes 10th-grade students from initial character creation to a polished ten-minute play script. Students explore archetypes, master narrative structure, learn the importance of stage business, and engage in the collaborative revision process of a table read.

This project-based sequence guides students through the structural engineering of a narrative, moving from a raw premise to a developed one-act play. Students analyze the dramatic arc and apply these concepts to their own original scripts, focusing on pacing, high-stakes storytelling, and professional formatting.

This sequence transitions students from linear melody to vertical harmony, exploring how chords are constructed and sequenced. Students analyze harmonic structures from basic intervals to full progressions in popular music.

An inquiry-based journey into the logic of pitch organization, covering the Grand Staff, major scale construction, the Circle of Fifths, relative minors, and sight-singing applications. Students use a 'decoding' lens to master the patterns that govern tonal music.

This sequence guides 8th-grade students through the complexities of musical time, covering simple and compound meters, sixteenth note subdivisions, syncopation, and polyrhythms, culminating in a rhythmic composition project. Students will develop skills in rhythmic analysis, notation, and performance to understand how time organization shapes musical genre and emotion.

This sequence explores the organization of pitch into scales, intervals, and chords, treating music theory as a logical language. Students will progress from staff navigation to full Roman numeral analysis of diatonic progressions.

A comprehensive high school music theory sequence focused on advanced rhythmic notation, metric organization, and the transition from simple to complex time signatures. Students will analyze, transcribe, and compose music using syncopation, tuplets, and asymmetrical meters.