**Foreign language requirement might vary based on the child’s experience.
Algebra II
Description
In this course, students learn to expand their view of algebra and geometry to include non-linear motion and non-linear functions. Circular motion receives special attention, which naturally leads to trigonometric functions and curves (sine waves and tangent graphs). The notion of exponential growth is brought to the forefront, and with it, a look at geometric sequences and series and the development of logarithms.
Course Length = 1 year Course Credit = 1.0
Text Used
Algebra II, John Saxon
Chemistry, with Lab
Description
Chemistry explores the physical nature of matter and energy. Students gain a broad introduction to changes in materials with a creative approach to problem-solving. They investigate the properties and structure of matter, bonding and the associated energy-flow. Through laboratory work, they develop unifying principles of chemistry. With these principles they begin to measure amounts of atoms and molecules in chemical reactions and to find patterns among elements and compounds. They learn to explain solution, behavior, energy changes, and chemical bonding. Emphasis is placed on investigation, experimentation, and the reading of historical and primary source material.
Course Length = 1 year Course Credit = 1.0
Text Used
Chemistry, Holt and Reinhart
Greek I
Description
This course acquaints student with Classical (Attic) Greek, the form of the language in which the great philosophical, historical and literary works of Ancient Greece were written. After learning the Greek alphabet and its proper pronunciation, attention turns to acquiring knowledge of the vocabulary, grammar and syntax of the language itself. The course employs the traditional analytic method of memorizing paradigms and of parsing and declining words, but special focus is given to the inductive method of speaking, reading and translating the language aloud in class.
Course Length = 1 year Course Credit = 1.0
Text Used
Athenaze, An Introduction to Ancient Greek, Book I, Maurice Balme and Gilbert Lawall Athenaze, A Student Workbook
Theology II
Description
This course teaches the student the language and basic truths of the Christian faith within the Reformed tradition. Throughout the year, students interact with these doctrines and develop an understanding of the doctrinal distinctions embraced by the larger Protestant and Reformed traditions.
Course Length = 1 year Course Credit = 0.5
Text Used
A Sure Thing: What We Believe and Why, Cornelius Plantinga
Material Logic
Description
This course encompasses a study of the conceptual elements of rational thinking in a practical way through the study of how to define, classify, and identify the basic components of language and thought. The student will encounter Aristotle’s metaphysical distinctions of the ten categories, the five predictables, and the four causes. Frequent analysis of famous essays by such notables as St. Thomas Aquinas, Hillaire Belloc and Sir Francis Bacon will occur.
Course Length = 1 year Course Credit = 0.5
Text Used
Material Logic, Martin Cothran
Writing II
Description
The student will continue to employ the classical writing canons of invention, arrangement and elocution as applied to the writing of the persuasive, comparative, narrative and definition essay. Contents will include the three elements of communication, the three kinds of persuasive speech, and the three modes of persuasion. Students will also study the elements of virtue, the four kinds of government, and the rudimentary elements of traditional psychology.
Course Length = 1 year Course Credit = 0.5
Text Used
Lost Tools of Writing, Andrew Kern Classical Rhetoric, Martin Cothran Classical Rhetoric for The Modern Student, Edward Corbett Diogenes: Maxim, Classical Writing
Humanities II (Includes Ancient History & Ancient Literature)
Description
This course seeks to integrate the Bible, history, and literature through a study of the Great Books of the ancient world. Students will read both primary and secondary readings. The primary readings are the cornerstone of the class and accordingly take up most of the class time. Several readings are assigned for outside of class from which the student will complete summary and comprehension cards.
Course Length = 1 year Course Credit = 2.0
Text Used
Primary readings include but are not limited to: The Annals of Imperial Rome, The Bacchae, Cicero’s Selected Works, The Iliad of Homer, The Landmark Thucydides, Plato’s Republic, Introduction to Aristotle, Josephus: New Complete Works, Theogony by Hesiod, Tearing Down Strongholds.
Media Studies (Our electives vary year by year
this is one option)
