High School

Introduction

Harmony High School seeks to inspire a love of learning in its students that will help them to become lifelong learners. It is our mission to help students prepare themselves for whatever college, job, or opportunity they wish to pursue after graduation. We work towards this goal in a holistic fashion, challenging the students physically, socially, intellectually and creatively.

  • Visit to Tibetan and Mongolian Buddhist Culture Center On Thursday, Paul's class "Cultural Arts of China and Tibet" visited the Tibetan and Mongolian Buddhist Culture Center.  We saw paintings, textiles, stupas, sand mandalas, trumpets, butter sculptures, masks, tantric statues, and more.  We even got to meet with Arjia Rinpoche and to see the Dalai Lama's personal room!  
  • IU Art Museum Chinese Collection Today, a Harmony high school class visited the IU Art Museum to see some of their Chinese collection. The trip was part of the Cultural Arts of China and Tibet class, taught by Paul Swanson. The class has been learning about the history, philosophies, and art of the Shang, Zhou, Qin and Han dynasties, so…
  • HS Trip to Red River Gorge: Final Day Today was a long but great day. We split up into groups after breakfast: two vans went to Gray's Arch in the gorge and two vans went out to Lexington. The hike down to Gray's Arch was about 4 miles or so; the scenery was beautiful and the students and chaperones had a blast. It…

High School Blog

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  • News from the High School: This month, the high school is humming with activity as the students devote themselves to number of fundraising events designed to raise money for their spring trip to Ashville, NC. These begin on April 6, with SabrinaFest, a Canine Carnival, at which dogs and their humans will be able to enjoy games, competitions, the Barkery…
  • News from Paul: In first period, American Popular Music, we have just wrapped up our unit on music from 1900-1945 and now we’re beginning to look at the birth of Rock and Roll. Students are working on finishing up their papers right now analyzing the relationships between two songs and American society at the times they were written.…
  • News from Alan: We have just finished our unit on right triangles. That unit included the Pythagorean Theorem, and special right triangles like an isosceles right triangle and a 30-60-90 right triangle. We are now moving onto our unit about solid geometry: prisms, cylinders, pyramids, cones, and spheres. Algebra I We have just finished learning the basics about…
  • News from Tom: Ninth Grade American English students are working their way through a 100-word vocabulary list compiled from educators of core subjects. Each student will receive 10 words to etymologically research and will begin reading a selected novel or work of non-fiction as a semester requirement culminating in thoughtful and formal written responses. Greek & Latin Roots…
  • News from Emily: The new semester brings three new science courses for the high school. First, there is the course on Energy where we examine the myriad ways society uses and converts energy. For the first part of the course we are focusing on energy uses at home and at school, and students are busy auditing Harmony and…