Students & Curriculum
Curriculum Review is always ongoing.
This summer our students are reading several books by authors of color including:
- The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende.
- In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
- Kindred by Octavia Butler
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT -- Diverse Voices
CP Engl. 1:
- A Thousand Splendid Suns: (Hosseini -- Afghanistan); poems by African American and Latinx voices;
- Short Story “Girl” Jamaica Kincaid (Antiguan-American novelist)
PIB Engl. 1:
- The Joy Luck Club: (Amy Tan: Chinese-American immigrants)
CP Am. Lit. 2:
- Sula (Toni Morrison -- African-American)
- The House on Mango Street (Sandra Cisneros -- Latina)
PIB Am Lit. 2:
- Kindred (Octavia Butler -- African-American)
- The Piano Lesson and Fences (August Wilson -- African-American)
- If Beale Street Could Talk (James Baldwin -- African-American)
- Poetry and short stories from a variety of voices including Latino, African-American, and Native American
Public Speaking:
- Famous American speeches including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
CP British Lit 3:
- Never Let Me Go -- (Ishiguro -- Japanese-British)
IB World Lit 3:
- Wonderful Fool (Endo--Japanese)
CP World Lit 4:
- Purple Hibiscus -- (Adichie -Nigeria)
- In the Time of the Butterflies -- (Alverez -- Dominican Republic)
- Sister of My Heart (Divakaruni -- India)
- The Stranger (Camus -- Algerian)
IB World Lit 4:
- The House of Spirits (Allende- Chile)
- Things Fall Apart (Achebe - Nigeria)
- The Stranger (Camus -- Algerian)
Latina Studies:
- The Book of Unknown Americans (Henriquez -- Panamanian descent)
- Poems by Erika Sanchez (Latinx) & Elizabeth Acavedo (Dominican)
- Excerpts from The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Junot Diaz - Dominican Republican)
- Excerpts from The New Latina’s Bible (Sandra Guzman - Latinx)
- Real Women Have Curves (play) (Josefina Lopez - Chicana author)
**Field Trip to Latina Film Festival in Chicago
Trinity is looking into Restorative Justice as a philosophy through which we can encourage students to treat one another and comply with the policies and procedures of our school community.
The Chair of the Social Studies Dept attended a week-long immersive seminar last summer at the National Civil Rights Museum and is continuing to connect with the instructors to incorporate black history into every class in the department. Additionally, the Social Studies Department has compiled a list of teaching materials and resources to be embedded into the curriculum of: U.S. History, Women’s History and IB History of the Americas.
Science:
Global Environment and Ecology: Analyzing Environmental Justice
Vision groups are small student-led discussion groups who meet several times per year. This year these groups will be discussing the Sinsinawa Dominican anti-racism platform.
In 2018, the SAFEE club (Students Aligned for Equity & Empowerment) was established for all students.
An anonymous Climate Survey and listening sessions will be available in August for students.
Senior Seminar: Environmental Racism
Vision groups are small student-led discussion groups who meet several times per year. This year these groups will be discussing the Sinsinawa Dominican anti-racism platform.
In 2018, the SAFEE club (Students Aligned for Equity & Empowerment) was established for all students.
An anonymous Climate Survey and listening sessions will be available in August for students.
