Curriculum

Lower School (Grades K-5)

  • Religion
  • Language Arts:
    • Learning to read and write
    • Dictation
    • Grammar (2nd-5th)
    • Composition (2nd-5th)
  • History (1st-3rd: Stories; 4th: Early America; 5th: Ancient History)
  • Math
  • Nature Study
  • Music

Middle School (Grades 6-8)

  • Religion
  • Language Arts
  • History (6th: Medieval History; 7th: Modern World, 1400 AD to present; 8th: US History)
  • Math
  • Science
  • Music
  • Art
  • Physical Education
     

Boys High School (Grades 9-12)

Boys Grade 9

  • Religion I
  • Standard English I or Honors English I (Western Literature & Composition)
  • Standard History I or Honors History I (Ancient History, Creation to Sack of Rome)
  • Latin I (students will be separated after first semester into standard or honors sections)
  • Standard Algebra I or Honors Algebra I
  • Standard Biology or Honors Biology
  • Listening Music I or Performance Music I
  • Art I
  • Physical Education I

Boys Grade 10

  • Religion II
  • Standard English II or Honors English II (Western Literature & Composition)
  • Standard History II or Honors History II (Medieval History, Age of the Church Fathers to Avignon Papacy)
  • Standard Latin II or Honors Latin II
  • Standard Geometry or Honors Geometry
  • Physical Science 1 or Honors Chemistry/Physics Introduction 2
  • Listening Music II or Performance Music II
  • Art II
  • Physical Education II

Boys Grade 11

  • Religion III
  • Standard English III or Honors English III (Western Literature & Composition)
  • Standard History III or Honors History III (Early Modern, The Black Death to The "Glorious" Revolution)
  • Standard Latin III or Honors Latin III
  • Standard Algebra II or Honors Algebra II
  • Fine Arts I or Honors Chemistry 3
  • Listening Music III or Performance Music III
  • Art III
  • Physical Education III

Boys Grade 12

  • Religion IV
  • Standard English IV or Honors English IV (Western Literature & Composition)
  • Standard History IV or Honors History IV (Modern/US Government, The Enlightenment to Contemporary History)
  • Standard Latin IV or Honors Latin IV
  • Fine Arts II or Honors Calculus or Personal Finance + Typing
  • Conceptual Physics (this replaced Astronomy) or Honors Physics
  • Listening Music IV or Performance Music IV
  • Catholic Social Principles (this replaced Art IV)
  • Physical Education IV

Girls High School (Grades 9-12)

Girls Grade 9

  • Religion I
  • English I (Western Literature & Composition)
  • History I (Ancient History, Creation to Sack of Rome)
  • Latin I
  • Algebra I
  • Biology
  • Listening Music I or Performance Music I
  • Art I
  • Physical Education I

Girls Grade 10

  • Religion II
  • Standard English II or Honors English II (Western Literature & Composition)
  • Standard History II or Honors History II (Medieval History, Age of the Church Fathers to Avignon Papacy)
  • Standard Latin II or Honors Latin II
  • Standard Geometry or Honors Geometry
  • Physical Science 1 or Honors Chemistry/Physics Introduction 2
  • Listening Music II or Performance Music II
  • Art II
  • Physical Education II

Girls Grade 11

  • Religion III
  • Standard English III or Honors English III (Western Literature & Composition)
  • Standard History III or Honors History III (Early Modern, The Black Death to The "Glorious" Revolution)
  • Standard Latin III or Honors Latin III
  • Sewing or Honors Algebra II
  • Fine Arts I or Honors Chemistry 3
  • Listening Music III or Performance Music III
  • Art III
  • Physical Education III

Girls Grade 12

  • Religion IV
  • Standard English IV or Honors English IV (Western Literature & Composition)
  • Standard History IV or Honors History IV (Modern/US Government, The Enlightenment to Contemporary History)
  • Standard Latin IV or Honors Latin IV
  • Fine Arts II / Psychology or Honors Calculus
  • Culinary Arts or Honors Physics
  • Listening Music IV or Performance Music IV
  • Art IV
  • Physical Education IV
  • 1a1b

    Introduction to Chemistry and Physics is geared for students who want to take Chemistry and then Physics in sequence in the 11th and 12th grades.  Physical Science covers similar material, but since it is potentially the last science class a student will take, it is a little more general in scope.  College-bound students seeking whatever degree should stay in the honors or college track, which would mean taking Introduction to Chemistry and Physics in 10th grade and following up with Chemistry and Physics in the following years.

  • 2a2b

    See the note above.

  • 3a3b

    Chemistry studies reality at the molecular level, the changes it can undergo at that level, and the energy involved in those changes.  The Introduction class (see superscript 1 above) focuses on the nuts and bolts, the grammar if you like, of that science.