Course Offering for 2024–2025

TheB is for Bear Class encourages good handwriting habits and bolsters phonics and reading skills. The course, however, introduces a lot of new material, such as important grammar concepts that will help students in their dictation and writing work. The curriculum also exposes students to a wealth of good history, poetry and literature intended for their level. “B is for Bears” is an excellent course to prepare students for the more rigorous reading and writing assignments. 

D is for Dandelion covers spelling, phonics, poetry memorization, poetics (in the Teacher's Guide), and reading with reading comprehension questions. This fourth year course introduces students to important writing formats and works on skills such as writing summaries, organizing ideas in expository writing, and using literature as prompts for story telling.

In addition to their independent reading, The Foundations course will introduce students to a wide variety of smaller reading passages, including history, fairytales, the short story, myths, fables, allegory, and poetry. Some of the works have been adapted for younger readers, such as the works by Shakespeare, Chaucer and Spenser. Students will study vocabulary found in the individual works and hone their reading skills through reading comprehension questions.

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In this newly-created high school comparative literature course, students will examine novels, poetry, short fiction, and drama of different periods and countries. Students will be encouraged to compare the correlating works and attempt to explain the  reasons for the differences and similarities, including such things as the author's artistic or thematic purposes, individual genius, religious assumptions, and time period. Example works include Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener, Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin  Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

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