THE MIDDLE SCHOOL Sixth grade includes Mineralogy, Geography, Astronomy and the study of the Roman system of law. Mathematics in this year exposes students to the precision of geometry, serving to reassure them of the beauty and order of the natural world and to deepen their sense of cause and effect, while enhancing their powers of objective reasoning and judgment. Seventh and eighth graders round out their journeys through their main lessons in history which cover the great revolutions of the eighteenth century, apropos of this time in their lives which they spend composing their own personal "declarations of independence."