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.
Kindergarten
1. inventing
– play
– re-envision
– insight
– exploration
– improvement
2. sports
3. music (playing)
– percussion
– wind instruments
– stringed instruments
– electronic instruments
4. dance (performance)
– concert dance
– latin/rhythm
– swing
– traditional jazz
– ballroom
– freestyle
– hip hop
– disco
5. theater (puppetry)
6. film (animation)
– stop motion
– clay
– computer
– 2D
– 3D
– flipbook
– sand
7. fine arts (painting)
– different media (oil, acrylic, etc.)
– symbolic
– still life
– body painting
– figure painting
– illustration
– landscape
– portrait
– cityscape
8. applied arts (printmaking)
– woodcut
– engraving
– etching
– screenprinting
– digital
9. agronomy (agricultural science)
– producing plants
– using plants
– environmentalism
– resources
– energy supply
– waste and pollution
– habitats and species
10. chemistry
– matter
– atom
– element
– compound
– molecule
– substance and mixture
– amount of substance
11. languages (english)
– phonology
– consonants
– vowels
– phonotactics
– stress, rhythm and intonation
– regional variation
– grammar
– nouns and noun phrases
– verbs and verb tense
– syntax
– vocabulary
– word formation processes
– word origins
– english loanwords and calques in other languages
12. writing (non-fiction)
– expository (explaining or informing the reader about a certain topic)
– argumentative
– background
– thesis
– 3 claims
– evidence for each claim
– opposing views (2)
– refutation of 2 opposing views
– conclusion
– opinion
– both sides of argument
– opinions
– reasons for opinions
– examples to support reasons
– conclusions
– essay
– introductory
– body
– transitions
– conclusion
– biography
– research
– reading works already written about the subject
– interviews
– visit places significant to the subject’s life
– explore what interested, influenced and inspired the subject
– study the time and place of the subject’s life
– analyzing the subject’s life
– look for patterns
– thesis statement
– decide how to recount the person’s life
– narrative
– write
– drafts
– get someone to read it
– proofread
– title
– sources
– publish
– memoir
– memories
– historical
– outline
– scientific
