*Wednesday 3-4th (AM2A) – Book Club

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ONE YEAR CLASS: Students can join our Character Counts Book Club for young readers. They will have fun exploring captivating books that highlight essential traits like respect, responsibility, fairness, and kindness. There will be light course work and some homework given each week. 📚 **What to Expect:** ✔ Thought-provoking discussions ✔ Interactive games and activities ✔ Creative projects related to the book   … [Read more...]

*Wednesday 2-4th (AM1) – Jr. Engineers (S.T.E.M.)

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ONE YEAR CLASS: Students will be introduced and led through the engineering process as they brainstorm, build, test, modify and share their creations. Sample building challenges include; Bridges, Chain Reactions, Elevators, Tree houses, and Water Slides. Building challenges will be both individual and collaborative. Let's build!   … [Read more...]

*Tuesday Elective HS (PM1A) – Leadership Skills

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ONE YEAR CLASS: Biblical truths set the foundation to explore, learn, develop, and apply leadership skills. Students will be going on a 90-day journey of leadership. With 15 different journeys students will discover what it takes to be a leader: Topics covered are Leadership Foundations, The Essence of Integrity, The Wisdom Fence, Climbing Gear Required, MoneyWISE, TIMEwise-WISEtime, Problem-Solving and Decision-making, The Challenge, Begin with End in Mind, TEAMwork, Unexpected Treasures, … [Read more...]

*Tuesday HS (PM1) – British Literature & Composition

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ONE YEAR CLASS: Suggested for 11th & 12th grade students for high school English credit, this class will introduce some classic British literature and poetry from the 19th and 20th centuries. Students will learn about the different artistic periods of these years and study the impact of contemporary history on the writing. There will be much opportunity to further develop their essay writing skills with persuasive and informative essays on a variety of subjects. Students will also learn … [Read more...]

*Tuesday Elective 8th & HS (PM2D) – ASB & Student Leadership

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ONE YEAR CLASS: ASB is a student body for Grace jr. high and high school students. Students will learn how to take an idea for an event, and then be given a budget to plan and do everything it takes for the event to happen. They will fundraise, advertise and oversee the event from set up to clean up. The student body officers hold roles as President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasure, Jr,  Spirit Rep. There will also be committees within ASB Community service/Fundraising, yearbook, and … [Read more...]

Thursday HS (PM1A) – General Literature & Composition

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ONE YEAR CLASS (Please note that there are different literature books for this year's class than the past year so a student can take another year as a different high school English class): The aim of this class is to develop students' writing skills while also studying some classic and fascinating literature. The focus of the fall semester is on various essay styles, from informative to persuasive to opposing arguments and more. Students will learn how to structure different essay types and … [Read more...]

Thursday *JH (AM1) – Math 7 (Teaching Textbooks)

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ONE YEAR CLASS: This one-year rigorous math class is specifically designed for 7th grade students to cover all four basic arithmetic operations (adding, subtracting, dividing, and multiplying whole numbers) with real world applications. Additionally, this class will also cover fractions, decimals, and percentages in real world applications. A fair amount of Geometry, graphing concepts, order of operations, inequalities, the metric system, powers and exponents, square roots, as well as … [Read more...]

Thursday 8th/9th (PM2B) – Literature & Essay Writing

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ONE YEAR CLASS (Please note that a student who took this class last year in 8th grade can take it again for 9th grade as the books studied will be different): In this English class, students will study the structure of a formal essay while we read some fabulous literature. They will practice the various elements that make up an essay through writing exercises, essay prompts and literature critique. By the end of the year, they should be able to handle with ease the skeletal frame that … [Read more...]