Prospective Students

The application window for the 2018-2019 school year has closed. LAUSD will send acceptance and waitlist letters the last week of March.

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Parents

Join us for the monthly MPA meeting on Wednesday, April 25th at 7:00 PM.

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Alumni

Who knows better how remarkable our educational program is than, you, our alumni? We gave you an awesome foundation, now help build on it.

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• 9th Grade

• 10th Grade

• 11th Grade

• 12th Grade

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  9th Grade

  In the context of a global perspective, students explore geography, the diversity of cultural expressions and the effects globalization has on nature, societies, and the individual. Students then apply this to the Australian Aboriginal, Mexican, South African and Chinese cultures. A major part of each unit is an emphasis on critical thinking and essay writing.

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  10th Grade

  Core 10 is, put simply, a survey of the development of Western Civilization, including the role of religion in all of these civilizations. We begin with the birth of Western thought in Greece and then analyze its progression up to and including the VERY EARLY Twentieth Century.

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  11th Grade

  “One of the fundamental questions of our day is whether the tradition of struggle…the struggle for decency and dignity, for freedom and democracy…can be preserved and expanded.” We will explore that struggle historically and personally as a way of preserving and expanding our identities as members of a democracy and of the larger human community.

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  12th Grade

  What is a human being? What can a human being know? We discuss the ideas of Montaigne, Shakespeare, Descartes, Hume, Marx, Darwin, Stendhal, Nietzsche, Freud, Sartre, Vonnegut, Ravitch, Foucault, Rorty, E.O. Wilson, Rousseau, Wordsworth, and Nussbaum, but we haven’t reached any definitive answers and expect students to come up with their own.

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