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 1The Category ErrorFifteen-to-eighteen will push on consciousness, boyfriends, therapists, and 'my agent runs my life40 min
- Sitting 1Test the Agent Before You Need ItThey may already use agents that summarize, draft, or quiz40 min
- Sitting 2Ghostwriter EthicsThey are months from syllabi that will treat undisclosed generation as academic dishonesty42 min
- Sitting 2What the Agent Remembers About YouTeens trade privacy for convenience without noticing40 min
- Sitting 3Epistemic HumilityRaise the stakes with them: college, work, health headlines40 min
- Sitting 3The Permission You Forgot to Turn OffThey will meet agents that can search, read files, send messages, and act while they sleep40 min
- Sitting 4Autonomy Is a Design ChoiceThey will meet 'agentic' products this year40 min
- Sitting 4The Off Button Is a SkillThis is the capstone of the unit40 min
- Sitting 5You Are a Data TrailTeens will trade privacy for convenience40 min
- Sitting 6Operator, Not PassengerThis is where they either own the method or wear it as a costume40 min
Art
Subject hub- Sitting 1Slow Looking Against the MachineThis sitting puts the student's slow looking against the model's fast description40 min
- Sitting 1Taste Is a MusclePortfolio and identity are live40 min
- Sitting 2The Specific Is the TasteThis sitting makes the student articulate why the specific matters40 min
- Sitting 3Your Taste Versus the DefaultThis sitting makes the student articulate their own aesthetic40 min
- Sitting 4The 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 5Refusal as a PracticeThis sitting makes refusal a practice40 min
- Sitting 6Taste as a Practiced SkillThis is the capstone for the emerging band40 min
Computer Science
Subject hub- Sitting 1Write the Fake Problem FirstThe prior unit's sitting on specifying an agent introduced three cases40 min
- Sitting 1Eval or It Did Not HappenThis mirrors EVALS40 min
- Sitting 2The Gate That Stops the Bad VersionCI — continuous integration — is a term from software40 min
- Sitting 3Write the Test Before the FeatureThis is test-driven development applied to agents40 min
- Sitting 4Run the Whole CycleThis is the capstone40 min
English
Subject hub- Sitting 1Ethos in a Room of Fluent StrangersThis sitting builds on the young version40 min
- Sitting 1Voice You Can ReproduceCollege essays and take-homes are in view40 min
- Sitting 2Manufactured EmpathyThis sitting names the thing the young version described40 min
- Sitting 3Fluent 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 4Manufactured PersuasionThis is the deeper version of the young sitting40 min
- Sitting 5Voice as a Rhetorical ChoiceThis sitting teaches that voice is not just personal expression; it is a rhetorical tool40 min
- Sitting 6The Full ToolkitThis is the capstone40 min
History
Subject hub- Sitting 1Primary Text, Not StorybookThis sitting builds on the young version40 min
- Sitting 1Runnymede: The Charter and the StandoffThis sitting takes the Magna Carta seriously as a historical document, not a legend40 min
- Sitting 1Philadelphia: Designed, Not ExtractedThis sitting grounds the Constitution in its actual history40 min
- Sitting 1The Committee of Five: Collective AuthorshipThis sitting takes the Declaration's authorship seriously as a political fact40 min
- Sitting 1Publius: The Brief, Not the MachineThis sitting is the door to the unit40 min
- Sitting 1Federalist 54 Lands: Section 2 Repeals the FractionFull landing40 min
- Sitting 1Compression and PowerThis prepares the Constitution/Declaration path40 min
- Sitting 2The Declaration as ArgumentThis sitting teaches the student to audit the Declaration as an argument40 min
- Sitting 2The 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 2Power Against Power: The Structural DesignThis sitting takes the separation of powers seriously as a design choice40 min
- Sitting 2Self-Evident Truths: The Four Claims and the GapThis sitting takes the Declaration's central sentence seriously as both philosophy and political act40 min
- Sitting 2Faction: Madison 10 versus Brutus IFederalist 10 is the load-bearing essay of the unit40 min
- Sitting 2Section 1 in OrderHoward: privileges would restrain states from invading personal rights in the first eight amendments40 min
- Sitting 3The Constitution as ArchitectureThis sitting teaches the student to read the Constitution as architecture40 min
- Sitting 3Due Process: The Chain from Clause 39 to the Fifth AmendmentThis sitting traces the chain in detail40 min
- Sitting 3The Bill of Rights: The Anti-Federalist LegacyThis sitting takes the Bill of Rights seriously as a political product, not a sacred text40 min
- Sitting 3The 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 3Ambition 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 3Gettysburg Inside the PackTaney; McLean and Curtis dissents40 min
- Sitting 4The Founding and the MissingThis sitting applies the full missing-voices cycle to the founding40 min
- Sitting 4Consent: 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 4The Three-Fifths Compromise: Power, Not WorthThis sitting takes on the three-fifths compromise directly and honestly40 min
- Sitting 4All Men: The Promise and the OmissionThis sitting takes the Declaration's central paradox seriously40 min
- Sitting 4The 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 4Dred Scott Overruled in a SentenceHoward, May 23, 186640 min
- Sitting 5Amendment as Civic PracticeThis sitting teaches the student that amendment is civic practice40 min
- Sitting 5The Omission of the VilleinsThis sitting takes the omission seriously as a historical and ethical question40 min
- Sitting 5Judicial Review: The Security Clause's HeirThis sitting takes judicial review seriously as a constitutional question40 min
- Sitting 5The 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 5Federalist 84 and the Bill of RightsHave 84 on the table40 min
- Sitting 5Procedure, Protection, State ActionLochner through Dobbs as afterlife40 min
- Sitting 6The Citizen's Full PracticeThis is the capstone for the emerging band40 min
- Sitting 6The Chain: How a Feudal Contract Became Your RightsThis is the capstone sitting40 min
- Sitting 6The Amendment Chain: How the Constitution GrowsThis sitting traces the Constitution's growth through amendment40 min
- Sitting 6The Declaration's Afterlife: Douglass, Lincoln, KingThis is the capstone of the Declaration unit40 min
- Sitting 6The Compound Republic and the Civic ChainCapstone for emerging adults40 min
- Sitting 6Reconstruction Machinery, Ugly Clauses NamedSection 3: 1872 amnesty; Trump v40 min
World Languages
Subject hub- Sitting 1The Ladder Gets HarderThis sitting builds on the young version40 min
- Sitting 1No Ghost-SpeakerThis is the language analog of the exam-hall test40 min
- Sitting 2The Ear Is the InstrumentThis sitting builds on the young version40 min
- Sitting 2The First Take Is the PracticeTimer40 min
- Sitting 3The Language You Think InThis sitting teaches the student that the language they think in shapes what they can think40 min
- Sitting 3Closed-Book Three MinutesTimer40 min
- Sitting 4The Ongoing LadderThis is the capstone for the emerging band40 min
- Sitting 4Ask and StayPartner or closed-book voice note to a human who will answer later40 min
- Sitting 5No EarpieceJobs, orals, borders40 min
- Sitting 6Closed Chat, Then DrillTimer40 min
Mathematics
Subject hub- Sitting 1The Path Is the MathematicsThis sitting teaches the student that the path is the mathematics, not the answer40 min
- Sitting 1Show the PathThis is the math version of ghostwriter ethics40 min
- Sitting 2Hunting the GapThis sitting teaches the student to audit the model's solutions the way an editor audits a draft40 min
- Sitting 3The Model Is a Hostile ReviewerThis sitting teaches the student to use the model as a hostile reviewer40 min
- Sitting 4Reproducibility Is the StandardThis sitting makes the blank board test the standard40 min
- Sitting 5Proof as a Social ActThis sitting teaches the student that proof is social40 min
- Sitting 6The Full PathThis is the emerging capstone40 min
Wisdom & Philosophy
Subject hub- Sitting 1ProhairesisThis is the philosophical hinge of the whole academy40 min
- Sitting 1The Examined LifeThis is the foundational sitting of the entire academy40 min
- Sitting 1The Imitation Game and Its DiscontentsThis is the foundational debate in philosophy of AI40 min
- Sitting 1The Restless HeartThis is intellectual history, not catechism40 min
- Sitting 2The Inner CitadelMortality and duty will come up40 min
- Sitting 2Elenchus as DisciplineThe distinction between elenchus and debate is the crux40 min
- Sitting 2Syntax Is Not SemanticsThis is the hardest philosophy of AI question40 min
- Sitting 2The Darkness That Isn't a ThingThis is intellectual history, not catechism40 min
- Sitting 3The Seneca ProblemThis is the uncomfortable sitting40 min
- Sitting 3Plato's Cave and the FeedThis is the sitting where ancient philosophy becomes immediately relevant40 min
- Sitting 3The Alignment ProblemThis is the central ethical question of modern AI40 min
- Sitting 3What Does Your City Love?This is intellectual history, not catechism40 min
- Sitting 4The Founding CatastropheThis is where the biographical meets the philosophical40 min
- Sitting 4The 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 4Proved in Five WaysTeach one claim40 min
- Sitting 5The Founding AxiomThis is the philosophical core40 min
- Sitting 5Aristotle's Architecture of ExplanationThis is where Aristotle meets modern science and AI40 min
- Sitting 5Two Wings of One FlightThis is intellectual history, not catechism40 min
- Sitting 6Logos SpermaticosThis is where Stoic universalism meets modern skepticism40 min
- Sitting 6The Golden Mean and the Limits of RulesThis is the sitting where Aristotle's ethics meets the limits of computation40 min
- Sitting 6What Is a Human For?This is intellectual history, not catechism40 min
- Sitting 7Oikeiosis and the CosmopolisThis is the theoretical core of Stoic social ethics40 min
- Sitting 7Flux and the LogosThis is the sitting where 'everything changes' becomes a philosophy40 min
- Sitting 7Christ as the New AdamThis is intellectual history, not catechism40 min
- Sitting 8The Naturalistic Fallacy and the Stoic TelosThis is where ancient ethics meets modern philosophy of science40 min
- Sitting 8Being vs. BecomingThis is the founding debate of Western philosophy40 min
- Sitting 8The Hazelnut and the Whole WorldRead the short reading aloud40 min
- Sitting 9The Founder MythologizedThis is the historical-critical sitting40 min
- Sitting 9All Is NumberThis is where Pythagoras meets modern physics and AI40 min
- Sitting 9One What, Three WhosThe objective is that sentence, and a parent can say it with no Greek in it40 min
- Sitting 10The First MaterialismThis is the hardest sitting in the Greeks unit40 min
- Sitting 10Thinking and DoingThis is intellectual history, not catechism40 min
Science
Subject hub- Sitting 1Measurement Is Not a ClaimThis sitting teaches the student to treat a model's numbers as claims, not facts40 min
- Sitting 1The Universe Is Not a ChatbotThis sitting fights AI-written lab reports40 min
- Sitting 2Unit Errors Are Not PedantryThis sitting teaches the student that unit errors are not academic40 min
- Sitting 3Uncertainty Is Not WeaknessThis sitting teaches the student to treat uncertainty as part of the result, not an admission of failure40 min
- Sitting 4The Model Does Not Know What It Does Not KnowThis sitting teaches the student about calibration40 min
- Sitting 5Calibration as a PracticeThis sitting makes calibration a protocol, not a concept40 min
- Sitting 6The Measurement ProtocolThis is the capstone for the emerging band40 min
Critical Thinking
Subject hub- Sitting 1Burden of ProofUseful before college seminars and comment sections40 min
- Sitting 1The Shelf Is Not NeutralThis sitting moves from 'whose room' to 'how the room was built40 min
- Sitting 2Charity Without SurrenderThis is the sitting that prevents them from becoming a fluent troll — or a model that will troll for them40 min
- Sitting 2Frames Are Invisible DecisionsThis sitting builds on the young version40 min
- Sitting 3Update, Don't Perform Capstone for thinking40 min
- Sitting 3The Missing Voice Is Not a FootnoteThis is the capstone for the bias unit40 min
- Sitting 4Contested TermsUseful before essays and comment sections40 min
- Sitting 5The Confident Wrong AnswerThis is sitting 1's burden work wearing fluency40 min
- Sitting 6Think It Through — Then ActCapstone40 min