2024-2025 class lists evolve as students register
In the November 2024 issue of The Atlantic, writer Rose Horowitch discusses The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books. One of her main observations is that Middle and High schools no longer require students to read full-length novels, so they have lost the ability to focus — even on a 14-line sonnet.
Our vertically-aligned courses, which combine the history and the literature that tracks themes throughout those eras, build a base of knowledge that allows our students to excel in work and college environments, as well as in their everyday lives. Our students not only learn how to examine a problem, but trust that they can find a unique viewpoint that matters. They know that learning is a result of making mistakes and adjusting to unexpected information. Peruse the reading your student would have in a personal knowledge base if s/he spent 7th-12th grades at North Fork.
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Evolving Class Lists for 2024-2025
Last updated 11/7/2024
13 students
How are North Fork classes different than those at students' public, private, or home schools?
At North Fork, students "link" ideas across Core Curriculum (1st, 2nd, 3rd) years as they continuously develop their skills. This result is not possible in separate classes, taught by different teachers each year, all choosing their own curricula and focus.
It is the vertical integration of all readings, assignments, and classwork as well as teachers' intimate knowledge of student strengths and weaknesses over the course of several years that create the success of North Fork School curricula.
Elementary Classes
Humanities Foundations + Writing Workshop
Tu/Th 8:00-9:00 MST
Hazel Brown (4th)
Elly Toebe (4th)
Addy Archibald (4th)
Aveer Sood (3rd)
Peter Toebe (2nd)
French I
Winston Gelardi (8th)
Georgia Spilotros (9th)
High School Classes
English III/AP Language
M/W 11:45-1:05 MST
Anna Morgan (10th)
John Spilotros (11th)
AP Modern World History
Tu/Th 11:45-1:05 MST
Anna Morgan (10th)
John Spilotros (11th)
French immersion tutoring
Addy Archibald (4th)
Middle School Classes
3rd Year Program (8th & 9th)
World History
Tu/Th 9:40-11:00 MST
British Lit.
M/W 9:40-11:00 MST
Scout Weiseth (6th)
Warren Day (7th)
Winston Gelardi (8th)
Everett Lingle (8th)
Kenneth Weinrauch (9th)
Georgia Spilotros (9th)
If your student does not seem to “fit” into one of the classes/grade levels shown above, please call us to discuss options… programs which receive enrollments during the current school year may start any time, if there are at least four interested students.
We offer alternating years of our programs, since we mix grade levels and place students with peers who have similar skills as we build a body of knowledge together.
“Seeing all the work in my big purple binder, and all the finished pieces listed on our charts, makes me feel accomplished. Writing prompts at the North Fork School make me think; my writing is now creative and analytical. North Fork is one of the best decisions I have ever made.”
WW/Humanities Foundations 2024-2025
This class (grades 3-6) is a slow introduction to the 1st Year Ancient Cultures) curriculum over the course of 2-3 years. History Foundations classes teach students how to read primary sources, articles, and a textbook, while incorporating projects and activities that make learning history fun. Ancient Cultures English classes will follow a Writing Workshop format, focused on process rather than product. Students produce a binder "portfolio" in class, in which all math, mythology, history, and science projects, as well as artworks and written pieces, are indexed.
Student portfolios are a key component of documenting student achievement. There are no tests, unless we do them as a class to teach students how tests work; there will be a little homework some weekends (reading a selection; completing a project) to prepare for upcoming classes.
French: Elementary or HS I, II, III
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3rd Year (World) History I
AP Modern World History
American History I continues where the Second Year Program ends, providing an overview of American history from Reconstruction to the present day. A preparation for AP US History in the eleventh grade year
English III: American Literature
AP Language (grades 10-12) is the second year of a two-year preparation for the AP Language & Composition Exam. A study of Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, James, Steinbeck, Cather, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, O’Connor, Faulkner, & American poets. This course integrates the needs of students who have acquired basic skills in NFS programs with those of students who have little background in literary analysis.
1st Year Program
Ancient Cultures (grades 7-9) explores cultures of the ancient world from Sumeria through Egypt, Greece, China, and Rome, ending with a unit on the Middle Ages. 1st Year English combines literature selections (novels, essays, poems, plays) from time periods and concepts studied in Ancient Cultures & the Middle Ages with analysis of short stories, creative and analytical writing, and SAT- prep Grammar, Vocabulary, and Spelling.
2nd Year Program
American History, Part II (grades 7-9) covers the political, social, cultural, economic, and philosophical history of the United States from Reconstruction to the Closing of the Frontier. (modified) English I literature selections follow our American History timeline, which adds depth, both to students' understanding of concepts studied in the American History class itself, and to their grasp of authors’ viewpoints. Creative non-fiction pieces complement analytical essays as students hone the skills learned in the 2nd Year Program. New students will learn how to write 5-paragraph analytical essays, joining the class in exploring various genres.
3rd Year Program
World History (grades 8-10) offers students a cultural and literary perspective of important European historical events, beginning with the Renaissance, and ending with the Russian Revolution. Third Year English includes further analysis of literature and formal essay-writing skills, as well as new techniques of "creative" writing, such as paradox & synesthesia in poetry, satire, and creative technical writing in resumes and application essays. Students read plays, essays, and novels by British authors who affected ideas during the period from 1450 to 1950.