Hillside - Academics

ACADEMICS

INTERMEDIATE OVERVIEW

INTERMEDIATE CURRICULUM

SECONDARY CURRICULUM

MORNING CLASSES

AFTERNOON BLOCK REQUIRED CLASSES

AFTERNOON BLOCK ELECTIVES

Elective courses are determined by the students and teachers each year and draw upon community artists and resources. Ungraded, these courses encourage student participation in a wide range of experiences. These include but are not limited to the following:

These include but are not limited to the following:

Astronomy
Classical Greek
Community Service *
Cooking/Sewing
Computer Keyboarding
Dance
Drama
Drawing and Painting
Film Making (computer editing)
Appropriate Technology
Music
Creative Writing
Pottery
Woodcarving

* for a video about the Community Service elective, please click below:

Drama Elective

Hillside drama teaches students a true discipline of self control and teamwork combined with profoundly creative self expression. Through classic plays of world theater students are immersed in natural sciences, history, dance, music, literature, language and philosophical discussion. In the process of finding and developing a character, each student discovers his or her own motives and learns to delve beneath the surfaces of human communication.

Recent productions include:

Bertolt Brecht’s Caucasian Chalk Circle
Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s The Physicists
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Nikolai Gogol’s Inspector General
Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth
Mikhael Bulgakov’s Black Snow
Tales of Grimm
Jean Giraudoux's The Madwoman of Chaillot
As You Like It