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Grade 9

Grade 10

Grade 11

Grade 12

 

 

Humanities:English/

Literature

 

Rhetoric

-Classical Rhetoric for the

Modern Student,

Oxford Press

 

Humanities 9: Quest Literature

-The Hobbit

-The Odyssey

-Beowulf

 

Humanities 10: Ancient World Literature

-Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces

-Epic of Gilgamesh

-Iliad

-Aeneid

-Inferno, by Dante

 

Humanities 11: Modern European Literature

-Selected authors including:

Dante- Purgatorio,

and Paradiso

Shakespeare, Marlowe, Milton, Pope, Wordsworth, Hopkins, Conrad, Remarque, Camus, Solzhenitsyn

 

Humanities 12: American Literature

-Norton Anthology of American Literature

-Selected authors including Franklin,Thoreau,Hawthorne,

Twain, Faulkner, Wright,

Fitzgerald

 

 

 

 

Humanities: History

Humanities 9:Non-Western World History

 

-World History, McGraw Hill

 

-World Religions,

Bethany House

 

Humanities 10: Ancient History

-Western Civilization, Selected readings from primary sources

 

Humanities 11: Modern European History

-Western Civilization,

-Selected readings

 

Humanities 12:

American History

-The American Pageant, Houghton Mifflin

-After the Fact, by Davidson and Lytle

-Selected readings

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Math

Geometry

-Geometry for Enjoyment and Challenge, McDougal Littell

 

Algebra Ib

-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

 

Anatomy

-Essentials of Human Anatomy and Physiology, by

Marieb

 

 

 

Theology

Hermeneutics

-Let the Reader Understand

McCartney and Clayton

Presbyterian and Reformed Publ.

 

 

Systematic Theology


-Bible Doctrine, Zondervan

 

Apologetics

 

The Doctrine of

The Knowledge of God  by Frame

 

History Of

Philosophy

 

Philosophy:History and Problems by

Stumph

Apologetics

 

-Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

-TheReason for God by Tim

Keller

-A World of Difference by

Kenneth Samples

 

 

 

Foreign Language

Spanish I

-Descubre 1, Text and Manual, Vista Higher Learning

 

-Primer Libro, Amsco

-La Gran Aventura de Alejandro, Amsco

 

 

Latin III

-Ecce Romani IIb, III, Prentice Hall

-Various Roman authors, including Catullus, Horace, Cicero, and Vergil

 

Spanish II

Descubre I1, Text and Manual, Vista Higher Learning

 

-El Enredo, Amsco

 

 

 

 

 

 

Latin IV

Selections from Vergil, Aeneid

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spanish II

-Descubre II-Text and Manual, Vista Higher Learning

 

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, Unamuno, Neruda, Mistral

-Spanish Practice & Testing Level 2, Amsco

-Comprehensive Practice & Testing, Amsco

 

 

 

 

 

Greek II

-Basics of Biblical Greek: Grammar,

Text and Workbook, Zondervan

Electives

Drama

Visual Art

Creative Writing

Yearbook

Drama

Visual Art

Creative Writing

Yearbook

Drama

Visual Art

Creative Writing

Yearbook

Drama

Visual Art

Creative Writing

Yearbook



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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