Registration for academic year 2026-27 is currently open. To inquire about a class, please contact the teacher via email (click on the teacher's name below). If you would like to discuss a course or student placement over the phone, please include your phone number in your email to the teacher.

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Music Fundamentals (John Sundet)

In our culture and epoch, we routinely engage music in terms of our identity and

pleasure—solely as listeners and consumers. Music is, however, a language, or at least a close relative of language; it has meaning. To listen with understanding and further participate in that language, the grammar and syntax—rhythm, melody, and harmony—must be learned and developed. This course provides an introduction to those building blocks, as well as to the beginnings of music theory and notation. The course will approach all topics via concrete musical examples and stress active active musical involvement using our voices: the primary musical instrument given to each of us.

Grade: 9, 10, 11, 12 (also open to adult students)

Prior musical experience welcome but not needed.

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Bible Overview (John Sundet)

A journey through the Bible designed to promote biblical literacy and establish the basis for a lifetime of reflection and engagement with its content. Students will acquire a holistic understanding of the relationship between individual parts of the Bible, ensuring that no book or chapter remains obscure or seems unrelated to the Bible's grand, redemptive story.

Grade: 9, 10, 11, 12 (also open to adult students)

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NEW! "The Wonders of the Father of Glory": Faith and Heroism in Anglo-Saxon Literature (Joseph Leake)

Come explore the riches of Europe’s oldest vernacular literary culture, the “great tap-root” (as C.S. Lewis put it) of the tree of English literature: the poems and prose of Anglo-Saxon England, a literature that has inspired writers and thinkers as diverse as the 19th-century English Romantics Gerard Manley Hopkins and William Morris, the 16th-century Reformed theologians Franciscus Junius and Matthew Parker, 20th-century Argentinian poet Jorge Luis Borges and Irish poet Seamus Heaney—and, of course, fantasy-writers J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. 

 

In this class we will examine the profound themes of this heady (and deeply Christian) literature and look at the ways the Old English language can still be heard echoed in the rhythms of conversation and speech, the vocabulary of poems and hymns, even in the modern period. We will explore together the great Anglo-Saxon literary works, from the elegiac wind-swept ruins of The Wanderer and the heartsick sea-longing of The Seafarer to the stirringly evocative Advent Lyrics, from the tragic heroism of The Battle of Maldon to the exultant Easter-poem The Dream of the Rood; and more. Starting with “Cædmon’s Hymn,” the oldest poem in English, we will work our way up to the greatest of all Anglo-Saxon works—and one of the finest poems in all of English literature—the incomparable epic of Beowulf. 

Grade: 10, 11, 12 + adult

No tests or written assignments

Meets once a week in the evening for 14 weeks (dates forthcoming)

Special tuition cost: $100​

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