These are my ideas for a new type of school curriculum. This is just an overview and the subjects, of course, would need to be taught in an age appropriate way, which I haven’t done here. Ideally, the student would pick from each subject what interested them.
2nd grade
1. physical health
– diet
– exercise
– sleep
– disease
2. self-defense
3. inventing
– play
– re-envision
– insight
– exploration
– improvement
4. sports
5. music (composing)
– chord progression
– melody
– free playing
– computer methods
– structure
6. dance (history)
– early dance
– means of social communication and bonding
– as folk celebrations
– in ceremonies and rituals
– as a method of healing
– as a method of expression
– asia
– indian classical dance
– china
– europe
– court dancing to romanticism
– ballet to contemporary dance
– last 20th and early 21st centuries
– 20th century american
7. fine arts (photography)
– general concepts
– equipment
– forms of photography
– processing
– techniques
8. applied arts (architecture)
– styles
– styles
– theory
– buildings
– materials
– structural elements
9. mathematics
– quantity
– quantity
– structure
– space
– change
– foundations and philosophy
– logic
– discrete
– applied
11. languages (foreign)
phonology
vocabulary
syntax
writing system
– mandarin
– spanish
– hindi
– arabic
– portuguese
– french
12. writing (fiction)
– character
– plot
– setting
– theme
– style
– narrator
– point of view
– tone
– suspension of disbelief
