**Foreign language requirement might vary based on the child’s experience.
Geometry
Description
Course content includes, but is not limited to, the following: terminology and fundamental properties of geometry (postulates, etc.); segments, lines, angles and their various relationships; exploration of geometric relationships (parallelism, perpendicularity, congruence, etc.); coordinate geometry and transformations on the coordinate plane; deductive and inductive reasoning and their application to proof; formulas pertaining to plane and solid figure measurement (perimeter, volume, area, etc.); properties of circles, geometric constructions, and right triangle trigonometry functions; and finally classical study into the history, literature and culture of those who developed geometry and why they did so.
Course Length = 1 year Course Credit = 1.0
Text Used
Geometry, Harold Jacobs
Biology, with Lab
Description
This course requires extensive practical application, self-interpretation, and individual planning. Students use projects, research techniques, and laboratory activities to advance their understanding of cellular biology, genetic research and therapy; the literal and figurative reading of the Genesis account of Creation and its implication to history; benefits of plant and animal classification; botanical and zoological study; and human health. On campus work and field trips require student to work with microscopes, participate in dissections and labs, conduct Internet research, and read primary historical source materials. Scientific principles and skills learned and developed from life, earth, space, general and physical sciences are used throughout the year.
Course Length = 1 year Course Credit = 1.0
Text Used
Exploring Creation With Biology, Apologia
Latin 3**
Description
This course expands the student’s exposure to Latin grammar to include expressions of purpose, wishes, conditional sentences, commands, ablatives of comparison, cause, and price, and adversative clauses. Translation skills will be emphasized through the speeches and writings of Cicero, the writings of Apuleius, and the poetry of Catullus, Horace, and Ovid. The student will also study and analyze literary techniques utilized by authors with a special emphasis on the speeches of Cicero. The study of Roman history will become more specific with an emphasis on the government and religion of the republic and early empire.
Course Length = 1 year Course Credit = 1.0
Text Used
Henle Third Year Latin, Loyola Press Henle Grammar, Loyola Press Latin Readings, Gertrude Drake, Ph.D.
Theology 1
Description
The course emphasizes the reading and understanding of the Old Testament, teaching the students how to approach sacred literature with appropriate interpretation skills. The redemptive acts of God in the Old Testament are given pre-eminence, as students learn of the parallels between OT figures and events and the person and work of Jesus Christ. The ultimate goal is for students to gain an understanding of God’s Word in order to live rightly.
Course Length = 1 year Course Credit = 0.5
Text Used
Kingdom of God, Francis Breisch Jr.
Logic II
Description
This course covers the four figures of traditional syllogism, the three forms of rhetorical arguments (called enthymemes), the three kinds of hypothetical syllogisms, the four kinds of complex syllogisms, as well as relational arguments. The student will be exposed to a wealth of examples or arguments from the Bible, Lewis Carroll, Isaac Watts, St. Augustine and Tertullian, as well as extended case studies of famous arguments throughout history, such as Rene Descartes’ famous enthymeme: “I think, therefore I am”; C.S. Lewis’ disjunctive syllogism proving the deity of Christ; Plato’s hypothetical argument concerning the power of love and many more.
Course Length = 1 year Course Credit = 0.5
Text Used
Traditional Logic, Book II Advanced Formal Logic, Martin Cothran
Writing I
Description
The student will continue to learn employ the classical writing canons of invention, arrangement and elocution as applied to the writing of the persuasive essay. The persuasive essay provides the basis for speech, debate, literary, historical study, scientific research, and other activities. Additionally the student will be introduced to narrative, poetic writing and the comparative essay. As a result the student will gain judgment, discretion, and discernment in their writing.
Course Length = 1 year Course Credit = 0.5
Text Used
The Lost Tools of Writing, Andrew Kern Intermediate Poetry, Classical Writing The Office of Assertion, Scott Crider
Humanities I (Includes American History & American Literature)
Description
This course seeks to integrate the Bible, history, and literature through a study of the Great Books covering the time periods of 1600-present day giving primary emphasis to the literature and history of the United States of America. 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, and summary and comprehension cards are completed.
Course Length = 1 year Course Credit = 2.0
Text Used
Omnibus III, Veritas Press
Primary readings include but are not limited to: The Federalist Papers, The Anti-Federalist Papers, Of Plymouth Plantation, Foundational American Documents, Various Slave Narratives, The Social Contract, Treaty of Versailles and other WWII Documents,
Mein Kampff, The Communist Manifesto, Narrative of the Life of an American Slave, Tom Sawyer, Poe’s Short Stories and Poems, Frankenstein
Physical Education 1
Description
This course consists of basic skills instruction in a variety of team and individual sports designed to improve the student’s level of physical fitness. Students will focus on building a knowledge and basic understanding of the history, rules, skills, and strategies of team sports such as soccer, basketball, football, volleyball, and others. Self-knowledge, self-respect, perseverance, personal integrity, stewardship, cooperation, competition, responsibility, social justice, and social respect are highlighted as students make decisions on sharing, caring, and sportsmanlike conduct. The comprehensive goals of the program emphasize the mental emotional, social, and spiritual growth of the individual, as well as the physical development that is necessary for a healthy life.
