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Eastminster School is making a lifetime impact on students by providing a liberal arts education which includes emphasis on the study of Western Civilization; the Canon of Core Media; free-market economics; democratic principles of governance and civic participation; cultural diversity; and religious tolerance. 

 

Reading is the primary means of building relationships between students across divisions.

 

The school continues to develop a unique program of extracurriculars and academic specials which attracts families, promotes “well-roundedness” in students, and takes advantage of facilities which exist proximate to the school.

 

 

A small portion of the music, art, films, books, and famous speeches that Eastminster students study.

 

 

Music:

   

  • Franz Joseph Haydn - Symphony No. 94 "Surprise"
  • Franz Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
  • George Frideric Handel - Hallelujah Chorus (The Messiah)
  • George Gershwin - Rhapsody In Blue
  • Giuseppe Verdi - Aida
  • Gustav Holst - The Planets

 

Films:  

 

  • To Kill a Mockingbird            
  • Portions of Star Wars used in association with Power of Myth (Joseph Campbell)

 

Art:  

 

  • Dali 


Books:  


  • The Power of Myth     
  • Animal Farm
  • Lord of the Flies             
  • A long excerpt from Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own             
  • Excerpts from Gilgamesh            
  • Catcher in the Rye            
  • Oedipus Rex             
  • Julius Caesar 

 

Speeches:  

 

  • Students in Introduction to Rhetoric will select a speech from the canon to analyze.