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Upper School Curriculum



Subject Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12
English Rhetoric
-Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student, Oxford Press
Quest Literature
-The Hobbit
-The Odyssey
-Mythology
-Beowulf
Ancient World Literature
-Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces
-Epic of Gilgamesh
-Iliad
-The Aeneid

-The Divine Comedy:Inferno
Modern European Literature
-Selected authors including:
Shakespeare, Marlowe, Milton, Pope, Wordsworth, Hopkins, Conrad, Remarque, Camus, Solzhenitsyn
American Literature
-Norton Anthology of American Literature
-Selected readings
Math

Geometry
-Geometry for Enjoyment and Challenge, McDougal Littell

Algebra 1b
-Algebra 1,
McDougal Littell

Algebra II Trigonometry
-Algebra 2, McDougal Littell

Algebra II
-Algebra 2, McDougal Littell

Pre-Calculus
-Precalculus,
Houghton Mifflin

Algebra III

Algebra and Trigonometry, Houghton Mifflin

Geometry
-Geometry for Enjoyment and Challenge, McDougal Littell

Calculus
-Calculus of a Single Variable, Houghton Mifflin

Pre-Calculus
-Precalculus,
McDougal Littell

Algebra III

–Algebra and Trigonometry, Houghton Mifflin


Science Conceptual Physics
-Conceptual Physics, Addison Wesley
Biology
-Biology Principles & Explorations, Holt, Rinehart
-Fearfully and Wonderfully Made, Zondervan

Chemistry
-Chemistry,

Wilbraham,Prentice Hall

Physics
-Physics, Prentice Hall

History

World Studies
-World History

McGraw Hill

World Religions,Bethany House

Ancient History
-Western Civilization
Thompson Publishing
-Greek and Roman Historians, Rinehart
 
Modern European History
-Western Civilization
International Thompson Publishing
-Selected Readings

American History
-The American Pageant, Houghton/Mifflin
-Selected Readings

Bible

 Hermeneutics
-
Let the Reader Understand

McCartney and Clayton

Presbyterian and Reformed Publ.

Systematic Theology/Early Church History
-The Story of Christianity, Prince Press
-Bible Doctrine,
Zondervan

 Reformation Theology
--Selected Readings from primary sources

-Discourse on Free Will,Erasmus,Luther


 Apologetics
Various Works by G.K.Chesterton

-What's Wrong with the World

-Orthodoxy

-The Everlasting Man

Foreign Lanugage Spanish I
-Descubre 1,Text and Manual,Vista Higher Learning
-Primer Libro, Amsco
-LaGran Aventura de Alejandro, Amsco


Latin III 
-Ecce Romani IIb,Prentice Hall
-Various Roman authors, including Catullus,Horace,Cicero, and Vergil

Spanish I
-Descubre 1,Text and Manual,Vista Higher Learning
-Primer Libro, Amsco
-La Gran Aventura de Alejandro, Amsco


Spanish II
-Tu Diras! Text and Manual, International Thompson Publishing
-El Enredo, Amsco

Greek I
-Basics of Biblical Greek: Grammar,
Text and Workbook,Zondervan
Spanish III
-Spanish Three Years, Amsco
-Selected authors including:
Sender, Manrique, de Vega, Buer,
Unamuno, Neruda, Mistral
-Spanish Practice & Testing Level 2, Amsco
-Comprehensive Practice & Testing, Amsco


Electives Drama
Visual Art
Creative Writing
Chorus

Drama
Visual Art
Creative Writing
Chorus

Drama
Visual Art
Creative Writing
Chorus

Drama
Visual Art
Creative Writing
Chorus



Course Credits



Grade 9
Subject Credits
English 1
Math 1
Science 1
History 1
Bible 1
Foreign Lanugage 1
Electives .5
Total 6.5
Grade 10
Subject Credits
English 1
Math 1
Science 1
History 1
Bible 1
Foreign Lanugage 1
Electives .5
Total 6.5

Grade 11
Subject Credits
English 1
Math 1
Science 1
History 1
Bible/Thesis 1
Foreign Lanugage 1
Electives .5
Total 6.5
Grade 12
Subject Credits
English 1
Math 1
Science 1
History 1
Thesis/Bible 1
Foreign Lanugage 1
Electives .5
Total 6.5



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