WEEKLY COMMUNITY SCHEDULE

Goal: To provide students with a foundation of grammar for the subjects of History, Math, Science, Latin, English Grammar, Scripture, Geography, Hymn, and Timeline, while cultivating wisdom and virtue by nourishing the child’s soul on God’s truth, goodness, and beauty. 

Goal: To provide students with a bi-weekly opportunity to discover and create art from the yearly cycle history era.

Goal: To provide students with a bi-weekly opportunity to  

listen attentively and focus on the essential elements of music: Rhythm, Tempo, Dynamics, Instrumentation, and Mood.

As children develop a habit of listening their appreciation for beautiful music grows deeper.

Goal: Science in the Industrial Age is a hands-on, multilevel science series that introduces scientific concepts using history as its guide. It covers the scientific advances made from the early 1800s to the early 1900s. Because the course covers science as it was developed, it discusses a wide range of topics including medicine, human physiology, cell biology, evolution, chemistry, geology, electricity, magnetism, heat, light waves, sound waves, radioactivity, and conservation laws. 

Goal: To provide students with a bi-weekly opportunity to discover and present using the Five Canons of Rhetoric as tools for creating persuasive speeches. Canons are Invention, Arrangement, Style, Memory, and Delivery. 

Goal: Students will learn the fundamentals of the English language including the parts of speech, how to parse and diagram sentences, and learning the rules of composition. 

Goal: Students will memorize the Greek Alphabet along with Greek and Latin root words and examples each week which is vital to mastery of English. 

Goal: Students will learn various forms of writing as they complete weekly writing assignments. They will learn to develop notetaking and outlining skills, as well as how to apply stylistic writing techniques to their writing.

Goal: A grammar-first approach to learning the Latin language.
Students will be translating in class and growing their English vocabulary with derivative work. English grammar and Figuratively Speaking will also be reviewed during this class. 

Goal: Students will learn to think and to communicate ideas by using a classical approach of rhetoric to focus on the thinking that leads to worthy writing. 

Learn advanced writing skills while exploring the enchanted land of Narnia through structure and style. 

Goal: Students will learn how to reason with clarity, relevance, and purpose, as they study and master 28 logical fallacies that will help them learn to argue well both in their writing and speaking. 

Goal: This laboratory-based science course covers a wide range of topics that are of interest to modern scientists. It starts by describing our current understanding of atoms, molecules, the chemicals that are necessary for life, DNA, and cells. These topics are all discussed in the context of history, explaining how specific scientific advances led to the scientific explanations that the students are being taught. 

Goal: Students will learn how to blend history, geography, and art. After learning the history, they will continue with the task of drawing the primary place they read about. 

Goal:  Students will learn a grammar-first approach to the Latin language. Students will be translating in class and growing their English vocabulary with derivative work. Second Form reviews all material in First Form, completes the verb paradigms for all four conjugations in the indicative active and passive, and much more. English grammar will also be reviewed during this class.

Goal: Students will continue their study of classical rhetoric by studying the judicial address, which refines the persuasive essay taught in LTW I. So just as the elements of LTW I build upon one another, so LTW II builds upon LTW I. 

Goal: Students will have an in-depth study of the classical syllogism. Along with a basic understanding of the Christian theory of knowledge, the text presents the four kinds of logical statements, the four ways propositions can be opposed, the three ways which they can be equivalent, and the seven rules for the validity of syllogisms.

Goal:  Students will discuss the levels of organization found in creation and spends time discussing topics at each level. As a result, students learn how cells work together to make tissues, how tissues come together to make organs, how organs form organ systems, how those organ systems produce organisms, and how those organisms relate to one another in  populations and communities. The student then learns how those communities interact with the physical environment to form ecosystems, which t 

Goal: Students will examine the philosophical foundation of American democracy and the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. 

Course texts:

The Story of the Thirteen Colonies by H.A. Guerber 

The Story of the Great Republic by H.A. Guerber

Your Rugged Constitution by Bruce and Esther Findlay

Goal:  Students will learn a grammar-first approach to the Latin language. Students will be translating in class and growing their English vocabulary with derivative work.  Third Form Latin continues the journey of Latin grammar by reviewing all material in First and Second Form, completing the verb paradigms for all four conjugations in the indicative active and passive, and much more.  

Goal: Why do certain literary works have the power to move us? With step-by-step instructions, Windows to the World teaches students how to analyze elements of literature: setting, plot, characterization, imagery, allusions, parallelism, and much more. This reference also gives numerous examples and suggestions for helping students develop Christian discernment skills. 

Goal: Students will have an in-depth study of the classical syllogism. Along with a basic understanding of the Christian theory of knowledge, the text presents the four kinds of logical statements, the four ways propositions can be opposed, the three ways which they can be equivalent, and the seven rules for the validity of syllogisms.

Goal:  Students will learn how Earth Science is an expanding study that moves from the Earth’s lithosphere to the rest of the universe. Students will build their critical thinking skills as they study the major theories in earth science and follow those theories through to their conclusions. Throughout the course, they will be guided by biblical and scientific principles, ultimately coming to a better understanding of their Creator and a greater appreciation of His creation. 

Goal: Students will learn The Mystery of History by an award-winning world history curriculum—written from a biblical worldview—to guide students through a meaningful, engaging, and historically accurate journey from ancient times to modern.