15–18
Emerging Adults
Real argument. Agent design. Integrity you can defend. Philosophy as preparation for a world that will not grade your character.
- Sitting
- 35–45 minutes.
- Ritual
- Practice · Reflect
- AI rule
- You write. The guide critiques. Optional narrow search or school files a parent approves. Not an adult team agent. Cite what you used.
Real argument. Practice. Reflect. Chat. Optional narrow search or school files. Not an adult team agent.
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Prohairesis
Wisdom & Philosophy · Sitting 1 · 40 min
Real argumentation, band-appropriate weight
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Practice · Reflect. Real argument. Practice. Reflect. Chat. Optional narrow search or school files. Not an adult team agent. You write. The guide critiques. Optional narrow search or school files a parent approves. Not an adult team agent. Cite what you used.
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Autonomous AI
Subject hub- Sitting 1Assist-readyThe Category ErrorFifteen-to-eighteen will push on consciousness, boyfriends, therapists, and 'my agent runs my life40 min
- Sitting 1Assist-readyTest the Agent Before You Need ItThey may already use agents that summarize, draft, or quiz40 min
- Sitting 2Assist-readyGhostwriter EthicsThey are months from syllabi that will treat undisclosed generation as academic dishonesty42 min
- Sitting 2Assist-readyWhat the Agent Remembers About YouTeens trade privacy for convenience without noticing40 min
- Sitting 3Assist-readyEpistemic HumilityRaise the stakes with them: college, work, health headlines40 min
- Sitting 3Assist-readyThe Permission You Forgot to Turn OffThey will meet agents that can search, read files, send messages, and act while they sleep40 min
- Sitting 4Assist-readyAutonomy Is a Design ChoiceThey will meet 'agentic' products this year40 min
- Sitting 4Assist-readyThe Off Button Is a SkillThis is the capstone of the unit40 min
- Sitting 5Assist-readyYou Are a Data TrailTeens will trade privacy for convenience40 min
- Sitting 6Assist-readyOperator, Not PassengerThis is where they either own the method or wear it as a costume40 min
Art
Subject hub- Sitting 1Assist-readySlow Looking Against the MachineThis sitting puts the student's slow looking against the model's fast description40 min
- Sitting 1Assist-readyTaste Is a MusclePortfolio and identity are live40 min
- Sitting 2Assist-readyThe Specific Is the TasteThis sitting makes the student articulate why the specific matters40 min
- Sitting 3Assist-readyYour Taste Versus the DefaultThis sitting makes the student articulate their own aesthetic40 min
- Sitting 4Assist-readyThe Trained Eye and the Independent EyeThis sitting teaches the student that taste is built by two forces: the feed (passive training by repetition) and del…40 min
- Sitting 5Assist-readyRefusal as a PracticeThis sitting makes refusal a practice40 min
- Sitting 6Assist-readyTaste as a Practiced SkillThis is the capstone for the emerging band40 min
Computer Science
Subject hub- Sitting 1Assist-readyWrite the Fake Problem FirstThe prior unit's sitting on specifying an agent introduced three cases40 min
- Sitting 1Assist-readyEval or It Did Not HappenThis mirrors EVALS40 min
- Sitting 2Assist-readyThe Gate That Stops the Bad VersionCI — continuous integration — is a term from software40 min
- Sitting 3Assist-readyWrite the Test Before the FeatureThis is test-driven development applied to agents40 min
- Sitting 4Assist-readyRun the Whole CycleThis is the capstone40 min
English
Subject hub- Sitting 1Assist-readyEthos in a Room of Fluent StrangersThis sitting builds on the young version40 min
- Sitting 1Assist-readyVoice You Can ReproduceCollege essays and take-homes are in view40 min
- Sitting 2Assist-readyManufactured EmpathyThis sitting names the thing the young version described40 min
- Sitting 3Assist-readyFluent Logos Is the Hardest to CatchThis sitting teaches the student to audit a model's argument the way they would audit a human's40 min
- Sitting 4Assist-readyManufactured PersuasionThis is the deeper version of the young sitting40 min
- Sitting 5Assist-readyVoice as a Rhetorical ChoiceThis sitting teaches that voice is not just personal expression; it is a rhetorical tool40 min
- Sitting 6Assist-readyThe Full ToolkitThis is the capstone40 min
History
Subject hub- Sitting 1Assist-readyPrimary Text, Not StorybookThis sitting builds on the young version40 min
- Sitting 1Assist-readyRunnymede: The Charter and the StandoffThis sitting takes the Magna Carta seriously as a historical document, not a legend40 min
- Sitting 1Assist-readyPhiladelphia: Designed, Not ExtractedThis sitting grounds the Constitution in its actual history40 min
- Sitting 1Assist-readyThe Committee of Five: Collective AuthorshipThis sitting takes the Declaration's authorship seriously as a political fact40 min
- Sitting 1Assist-readyPublius: The Brief, Not the MachineThis sitting is the door to the unit40 min
- Sitting 1Assist-readyFederalist 54 Lands: Section 2 Repeals the FractionFull landing40 min
- Sitting 1Assist-readyCompression and PowerThis prepares the Constitution/Declaration path40 min
- Sitting 2Assist-readyThe Declaration as ArgumentThis sitting teaches the student to audit the Declaration as an argument40 min
- Sitting 2Assist-readyThe Rule of Law: From Runnymede to the Fifth AmendmentThis sitting traces the chain: Magna Carta clause 39 ('lawful judgment of his peers or the law of the land') to the F…40 min
- Sitting 2Assist-readyPower Against Power: The Structural DesignThis sitting takes the separation of powers seriously as a design choice40 min
- Sitting 2Assist-readySelf-Evident Truths: The Four Claims and the GapThis sitting takes the Declaration's central sentence seriously as both philosophy and political act40 min
- Sitting 2Assist-readyFaction: Madison 10 versus Brutus IFederalist 10 is the load-bearing essay of the unit40 min
- Sitting 2Assist-readySection 1 in OrderHoward: privileges would restrain states from invading personal rights in the first eight amendments40 min
- Sitting 3Assist-readyThe Constitution as ArchitectureThis sitting teaches the student to read the Constitution as architecture40 min
- Sitting 3Assist-readyDue Process: The Chain from Clause 39 to the Fifth AmendmentThis sitting traces the chain in detail40 min
- Sitting 3Assist-readyThe Bill of Rights: The Anti-Federalist LegacyThis sitting takes the Bill of Rights seriously as a political product, not a sacred text40 min
- Sitting 3Assist-readyThe Right of Revolution: Locke, the Grievances, and the DangerThis sitting takes the right of revolution seriously as both a philosophical claim and a political danger40 min
- Sitting 3Assist-readyAmbition Must Be Made to Counteract Ambition51 continues 10's work: a large republic with many interests is less likely to have a single majority able to oppress40 min
- Sitting 3Assist-readyGettysburg Inside the PackTaney; McLean and Curtis dissents40 min
- Sitting 4Assist-readyThe Founding and the MissingThis sitting applies the full missing-voices cycle to the founding40 min
- Sitting 4Assist-readyConsent: From Common Counsel to No Taxation Without RepresentationThis sitting traces a counterintuitive story: the clause that most directly established consent (clause 12) was dropp…40 min
- Sitting 4Assist-readyThe Three-Fifths Compromise: Power, Not WorthThis sitting takes on the three-fifths compromise directly and honestly40 min
- Sitting 4Assist-readyAll Men: The Promise and the OmissionThis sitting takes the Declaration's central paradox seriously40 min
- Sitting 4Assist-readyThe Least Dangerous Branch — and Brutus's ReplyWalk 78 in order: need for a federal judicature; appointment; tenure during good behavior as barrier against legislat…40 min
- Sitting 4Assist-readyDred Scott Overruled in a SentenceHoward, May 23, 186640 min
- Sitting 5Assist-readyAmendment as Civic PracticeThis sitting teaches the student that amendment is civic practice40 min
- Sitting 5Assist-readyThe Omission of the VilleinsThis sitting takes the omission seriously as a historical and ethical question40 min
- Sitting 5Assist-readyJudicial Review: The Security Clause's HeirThis sitting takes judicial review seriously as a constitutional question40 min
- Sitting 5Assist-readyThe Slave Trade Passage: What Was Removed and WhyThis sitting takes the removed passage seriously as both a political fact and a moral problem40 min
- Sitting 5Assist-readyFederalist 84 and the Bill of RightsHave 84 on the table40 min
- Sitting 5Assist-readyProcedure, Protection, State ActionLochner through Dobbs as afterlife40 min
- Sitting 6Assist-readyThe Citizen's Full PracticeThis is the capstone for the emerging band40 min
- Sitting 6Assist-readyThe Chain: How a Feudal Contract Became Your RightsThis is the capstone sitting40 min
- Sitting 6Assist-readyThe Amendment Chain: How the Constitution GrowsThis sitting traces the Constitution's growth through amendment40 min
- Sitting 6Assist-readyThe Declaration's Afterlife: Douglass, Lincoln, KingThis is the capstone of the Declaration unit40 min
- Sitting 6Assist-readyThe Compound Republic and the Civic ChainCapstone for emerging adults40 min
- Sitting 6Assist-readyReconstruction Machinery, Ugly Clauses NamedSection 3: 1872 amnesty; Trump v40 min
World Languages
Subject hub- Sitting 1Assist-readyThe Ladder Gets HarderThis sitting builds on the young version40 min
- Sitting 1Assist-readyNo Ghost-SpeakerThis is the language analog of the exam-hall test40 min
- Sitting 2Assist-readyThe Ear Is the InstrumentThis sitting builds on the young version40 min
- Sitting 3Assist-readyThe Language You Think InThis sitting teaches the student that the language they think in shapes what they can think40 min
- Sitting 4Assist-readyThe Ongoing LadderThis is the capstone for the emerging band40 min
Mathematics
Subject hub- Sitting 1Assist-readyThe Path Is the MathematicsThis sitting teaches the student that the path is the mathematics, not the answer40 min
- Sitting 1Assist-readyShow the PathThis is the math version of ghostwriter ethics40 min
- Sitting 2Assist-readyHunting the GapThis sitting teaches the student to audit the model's solutions the way an editor audits a draft40 min
- Sitting 3Assist-readyThe Model Is a Hostile ReviewerThis sitting teaches the student to use the model as a hostile reviewer40 min
- Sitting 4Assist-readyReproducibility Is the StandardThis sitting makes the blank board test the standard40 min
- Sitting 5Assist-readyProof as a Social ActThis sitting teaches the student that proof is social40 min
- Sitting 6Assist-readyThe Full PathThis is the emerging capstone40 min
Wisdom & Philosophy
Subject hub- Sitting 1Assist-readyProhairesisThis is the philosophical hinge of the whole academy40 min
- Sitting 1Assist-readyThe Examined LifeThis is the foundational sitting of the entire academy40 min
- Sitting 1Assist-readyThe Imitation Game and Its DiscontentsThis is the foundational debate in philosophy of AI40 min
- Sitting 1Assist-readyThe Restless HeartThis is intellectual history, not catechism40 min
- Sitting 2Assist-readyThe Inner CitadelMortality and duty will come up40 min
- Sitting 2Assist-readyElenchus as DisciplineThe distinction between elenchus and debate is the crux40 min
- Sitting 2Assist-readySyntax Is Not SemanticsThis is the hardest philosophy of AI question40 min
- Sitting 2Assist-readyThe Darkness That Isn't a ThingThis is intellectual history, not catechism40 min
- Sitting 3Assist-readyThe Seneca ProblemThis is the uncomfortable sitting40 min
- Sitting 3Assist-readyPlato's Cave and the FeedThis is the sitting where ancient philosophy becomes immediately relevant40 min
- Sitting 3Assist-readyThe Alignment ProblemThis is the central ethical question of modern AI40 min
- Sitting 3Assist-readyWhat Does Your City Love?This is intellectual history, not catechism40 min
- Sitting 4Assist-readyThe Founding CatastropheThis is where the biographical meets the philosophical40 min
- Sitting 4Assist-readyThe Theory of FormsThis is Plato's metaphysical claim: behind every particular (this just act, this beautiful thing) there is a Form (Ju…40 min
- Sitting 4Assist-readyFive Questions About RealityThis is intellectual history, not catechism40 min
- Sitting 5Assist-readyThe Founding AxiomThis is the philosophical core40 min
- Sitting 5Assist-readyAristotle's Architecture of ExplanationThis is where Aristotle meets modern science and AI40 min
- Sitting 5Assist-readyTwo Wings of One FlightThis is intellectual history, not catechism40 min
- Sitting 6Assist-readyLogos SpermaticosThis is where Stoic universalism meets modern skepticism40 min
- Sitting 6Assist-readyThe Golden Mean and the Limits of RulesThis is the sitting where Aristotle's ethics meets the limits of computation40 min
- Sitting 6Assist-readyWhat Is a Human For?This is intellectual history, not catechism40 min
- Sitting 7Assist-readyOikeiosis and the CosmopolisThis is the theoretical core of Stoic social ethics40 min
- Sitting 7Assist-readyFlux and the LogosThis is the sitting where 'everything changes' becomes a philosophy40 min
- Sitting 7Assist-readyChrist as the New AdamThis is intellectual history, not catechism40 min
- Sitting 8Assist-readyThe Naturalistic Fallacy and the Stoic TelosThis is where ancient ethics meets modern philosophy of science40 min
- Sitting 8Assist-readyBeing vs. BecomingThis is the founding debate of Western philosophy40 min
- Sitting 8Assist-readyThe Hazelnut and the Whole WorldThis is intellectual history, not catechism40 min
- Sitting 9Assist-readyThe Founder MythologizedThis is the historical-critical sitting40 min
- Sitting 9Assist-readyAll Is NumberThis is where Pythagoras meets modern physics and AI40 min
- Sitting 9Assist-readyOne What, Three WhosThis is intellectual history, not catechism40 min
- Sitting 10Assist-readyThe First MaterialismThis is the hardest sitting in the Greeks unit40 min
- Sitting 10Assist-readyThinking and DoingThis is intellectual history, not catechism40 min
Science
Subject hub- Sitting 1Assist-readyMeasurement Is Not a ClaimThis sitting teaches the student to treat a model's numbers as claims, not facts40 min
- Sitting 1Assist-readyThe Universe Is Not a ChatbotThis sitting fights AI-written lab reports40 min
- Sitting 2Assist-readyUnit Errors Are Not PedantryThis sitting teaches the student that unit errors are not academic40 min
- Sitting 3Assist-readyUncertainty Is Not WeaknessThis sitting teaches the student to treat uncertainty as part of the result, not an admission of failure40 min
- Sitting 4Assist-readyThe Model Does Not Know What It Does Not KnowThis sitting teaches the student about calibration40 min
- Sitting 5Assist-readyCalibration as a PracticeThis sitting makes calibration a protocol, not a concept40 min
- Sitting 6Assist-readyThe Measurement ProtocolThis is the capstone for the emerging band40 min
Critical Thinking
Subject hub- Sitting 1Assist-readyBurden of ProofUseful before college seminars and comment sections40 min
- Sitting 1Assist-readyThe Shelf Is Not NeutralThis sitting moves from 'whose room' to 'how the room was built40 min
- Sitting 2Assist-readyCharity Without SurrenderThis is the sitting that prevents them from becoming a fluent troll — or a model that will troll for them40 min
- Sitting 2Assist-readyFrames Are Invisible DecisionsThis sitting builds on the young version40 min
- Sitting 3Assist-readyUpdate, Don't Perform Capstone for thinking40 min
- Sitting 3Assist-readyThe Missing Voice Is Not a FootnoteThis is the capstone for the bias unit40 min