This course covers connections
between right triangle trigonometry and circular
functions.Graphing utilities are used to enhance
learning and scientific calculators are used in
finding the values of trigonometric functions and
their inverses.
Course Length = 1 year Course Credit = 1.0
Text Used
Hawkes' Learning Systems Precalculus
Precalculus by Larson & Hostetler
Physics, with Lab
Description
This course teaches the major
principles of physics and provides extensive
coverage of waves and vibrations, electricity and
magnetism, and modern physics.In-depth coverage of material in the areas of
rotational mechanics and thermodynamics is also a
part of this class.
Course Length = 1 year Course Credit = 1.0
Text Used
Exploring Creation with Biology,
2nd edition
Greek II
Description
This course continues to
familiarize the student with Classical (Attic)
Greek, the form of the language in which the great
philosophical, historical and literary works of
Ancient Greece were written.Primary attention is givento 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 II, Maurice Balme and Gilbert Lawall Athenaze, A Student Workbook
World Religions/Apologetics
Description
In this course, students survey
the major world religions, examining their central
doctrines and how each religion is lived out in
daily life.Religions studied include Islam, Judaism,
Mormonism, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Christian Science,
the New Age Movement, various forms of Eastern
religions such as Buddhism and different cults
indigenous to North America.The Apologetics portion of the class focuses
on how to defend orthodox Christianity over and
against these errant world religions.Special emphasis is placed on cultivating an
attitude of compassion and concern for the lost as
the Christian faith is held forth as the one true
religion.
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.Primary attention will be given to preparing
the students for writing and defending a thesis.
Course Length = 1 year
Course Credit = 1.0
Text Used
Lost Tools of
Writing, Andrew Kern
Classical
Rhetoric, Martin Cothran
Classical
Rhetoric for The Modern Student, Edward Corbett
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.
Theater (Our electives vary year by year
this is one option)
