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Algebra I (Laurie Warren)

Using Elementary Algebra by Harold Jacobs, students will cover topics such as operations, square roots, graphing, linear, simultaneous and quadratic equations with plenty of practice. This is a dialectic approach where illustrations and real life critical thinking problems help students understand why formulas work and how to apply them.

Grade: 7, 8, 9, 10

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NEW! Geometry (Scott Warren)

Covers two- and three-dimensional Euclidean geometry using Harold Jacobs' Geometry textbook, with an emphasis on logic, deductive reasoning, and the comprehension and development of mathematical proofs. Review exercises will reinforce students' acquaintance with Algebra I in preparation for Algebra II. 

Grade: 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Prerequisite: Algebra I

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NEW! Introductory Biology (Charles Nystrom)

Over 2 semesters, we will work together through the wonders of biology, focused on going beyond the text, memorization, and classification, and into the sacred, marvelous, and created. The class will consist of lectures, homework assignments, a midterm and final, and creative projects. Guidance will be provided for completion of optional (but highly encouraged) at-home labs, and select group-lab demonstrations will be organized as we are able. Students should be prepared for independent at-home work as well as in-class note-taking.

• Fall Semester: Using the first half (modules 1-8) of Apologia’s Exploring Creation with Biology, 2nd ed (Wile & Durnell) as our framework, we will cover the tenets of biology, microbes, fungi, the chemistry of biology, cell structure/anatomy, cell reproduction and DNA, and genetics. 

• Spring Semester: Using the second half (modules 9-16) of Apologia’s Exploring Creation with Biology, 2nd ed (Wile & Durnell) as our framework, we will cover evolution, ecology, invertebrates, plants, and vertebrates.

Grade: 9, 10, 11, 12

Prerequisites: General Science course

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Integrated Math Science and Engineering (IMS) (Marty Georges)

Exploration of classical problems of science and engineering throughout history, particularly those problems that have led to the development of mathematical methods that scientists and engineers take for granted today. Students will learn to develop solutions to problems using first principles of physics and engineering. The course will consist of lectures, in-class collaborative problem solving, weekly homework, and unit studies. Topics may vary depending upon the interests of students; previously the class analyzed, modeled, and accurately predicted the performance and trajectory of a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster.

Grade: 11, 12

Prerequisites: Algebra II, Trigonometry, Geometry; Pre-calculus or Calculus desired. ​

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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! Great Books of Western Civilization III (Joseph Leake)

Resuming the tale of Western Civilization from where we left off in the Renaissance, the third year of our Great Books program examines the monumental developments in literature and thought from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries. This is the era that saw (among other things) the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution; the Romantic and Modernist movements in the arts; the Age of Revolutions, Emancipation, the rise of both democracy and totalitarianism, and two World Wars—all of them developments that have fundamentally shaped the world we live in today. Students will explore these developments first-hand through the rich and thought-provoking literature of the times, such as the epic Paradise Lost; the plays of Molière; the novels of Austen and Dostoevsky, Tolkien and Lewis; the poetry of Wordsworth, Keats, Dickinson, and Eliot, and much more, growing in the wisdom—and learning the lessons—of the past.

Grades: 9, 10, 11, 12

This course constitutes a portion of our three-year Great Books program; each Great Books course is offered in rotation, and students may take them in any order

 

Creative Writing (Debbie Goodale)

In this course, students will explore different forms of creative writing, such as poetry, memoir/narrative pieces, creative nonfiction, and journaling. Students will analyze mentor texts (the writing of published authors) as models for improving and expanding their creative writing skills. Students can expect mini-lessons and practice in creative writing skills, including word choice, voice, tone, etc. In addition, students will read various texts by poets and writers that speak to the creative writing process.

Grade: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

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Senior Thesis Writing Class (Eleanor Georges)

Advanced writing course that hones skills of critical thinking, research, argumentation, and editing, refines the writing process (outlining, drafting, revising), and culminates in the composition and public presentation and defense of a thesis-length essay.

Grade: 12

Meets twice weekly, Spring semester only (day and time scheduled based on availability of registered 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​