High School (Grades 9-12)

High School

(grades 9-12)

2023 - 2024

History

{Notgrass: Exploring America} 

Designed to be easy to use for parent and student, each of the 30 weekly units in Exploring America has an introduction that features a summary of the material covered, a list of lessons, books required for that unit, and ideas for a unit project. Exploring America presents history from the perspective of faith in God and respect for His Word. Each unit includes a Bible study highlighting spiritual issues related to history. It is comprehensive, giving students a survey of events and issues from European exploration to the war on terror, with extensive coverage of the 20th century. Completing the full course provides your child with one year of high school credit in three subjects: American History, English, and Bible. The American History credit involves reading the lessons and the original documents and speeches, and answering the questions in the optional Student Review Pack if desired. The English credit involves completing several writing assignments, including one research paper; reading the poems and short stories in American Voices; and reading the assigned literature. The Bible credit involves reading the Bible lessons, completing the Bible assignments at the end of many lessons, and reading the hymns and other religious literature in American Voices.

Science

{Berean Builders: Discovering Design with Earth Science}

Discovering Design with Earth Science is a laboratory-based earth science course can be used for either eighth or ninth grade.  Most homeschooled students should be ready for it in eighth grade, but privately- and publicly-schooled students will be more comfortable with it in ninth grade.  It covers the general properties of the earth’s geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere.  There are roughly 55 hours of laboratory instruction in the course.  A kit (not included and sold-separately) that contains specific minerals, rocks, and fossils allows students to do very detailed experiments related to the geosphere.  These include mineral tests, rock analyses, fossil studies, density investigations, and magnetic property explorations.  Students also get hands-on experience with waves, gases, wind, water purification, cloud formation, the Coriolis effect, precipitation, and acid/base interactions.

Literature

Our selections go along with our history program from Notgrass, they include: 

The Scarlet Letter
Narrative of the Life of David Crockett
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Co. Aytch
Humorous Stories and Sketches
In His Steps
Up From Slavery
Mama's Bank Account
Miracle on the Hills
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Giver

Enrichment Studies

Spanish is our planned offering as well as various rotating enrichment studies. 

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2022 - 2023

High school is planned to be elective based. 

This will allow more opportunity for students since so much of high school core classes are specific to each student's course layout and requirements. Planned classes include {Literature}, {Finance}, {Spanish / ASL}, {Life Skills}, and {Enrichment}. Please see more information on each topic below.

{Literature}

Literature is being taught by a mom with a great passion for literature, teaching that literature to teens, and a published author herself. High school gets the great fun of focusing on one of her own books this year! Book list below:

Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
The Screw Tape Letters – C.S. Lewis
Remnants Trilogy #1: Season of Wonder – Lisa T. Bergren

Heroes of the Horde #1: Unleashed – Jennifer Hartz 

{Finance}

Foundations in Personal Finance: High School Edition

{Spanish / ASL}

Curriculum TBD

This will be taught co-op wide but broken up into different levels

{Life Skills}

This will be done without a core curriculum, taught and put together by the mom teaching it. If there is any skill or activity you want your high schooler to learn, or that they are particularly interested in, please reach out so we can add it in to the rotation of activities.

{Enrichment}

Currently we do this all together as a unit study approach. Next year (22-23) we will be keeping the younger children out of select classes so we can focus on activities that are too involved for the younger ones.

These are all subject to change, please reach out if you have a specific want or need.

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2021-2022

We do not have a high school class this year due to no students in this age range. We do have at least one rising freshman for the 2022-2023 school year.