ONE YEAR CLASS - No New Students: ASL 3 is an advanced level course designed for students who have completed ASL 1 and ASL 2. This course will continue to focus on the immersion approach to language learning, with no voice in the classroom, allowing students to develop their fluency and improve their ASL skills. Students will continue to expand their ASL vocabulary, grammar, and conversational skills, enabling them to perform narratives in ASL at an intermediate to advanced level. They … [Read more...]
Thursday HS (AM1B) – English 2
ONE YEAR CLASS - Full Class - No New Students: Another option for high school English credit, this class will cover literature from a Christian perspective. Students will be studying literature, grammar, and working on writing essays and research papers. The grammar component will cover sentence structure and punctuation. The writing component will cover outlining, paragraph structure, essay writing, and all of the components of multi-source papers. Students will discuss and answer … [Read more...]
Thursday *JH & HS Elective (PM1B) – Geography Study
ONE YEAR CLASS - No New Students: Geography can encompass so much more than identifying places on a map! Using North Star Geography curriculum, this class "will cover basic geography skills (maps, navigation) as well as physical geography (topography, biosphere, structure of the earth) and human geography (environmental stewardship, agriculture, culture, heritage & more)- - -all from a Christian perspective." Geared towards Jr. High and High School students, this class will include … [Read more...]
Thursday *JH & HS Elective (AM1B) – Intermediate Guitar
ONE YEAR CLASS (Prerequisite: Taken and passed one year of Beginning Guitar or equivalent skill level) - Accepting New Students for Spring Semester with skill level: This course is designed to prepare students to serve on a worship team and will focus on rhythm guitar and chord structures, knowledge of the fret board, practice habits, effectively rehearsing, and etiquette in the team dynamic. This will be a highly interactive class and weekly topics are subject to change as feedback from … [Read more...]
Thursday *JH & HS Elective (AM2A) – Beginning Guitar
ONE YEAR CLASS - No New Students: This class will be a beginning level introduction to learning to play the guitar with the basics of the instrument, chords, fret board mapping, language of music, strumming in time, and playing songs as assigned. Students will not only need to attend class for demonstration, learning and practice, but it is very important for students to practice weekly as homework what they have learned and prepare for tests. Students will keep notes and handouts in a 3-ring … [Read more...]
Thursday *JH & HS Elective (AM0) – Advanced Worship Guitar
ONE YEAR CLASS (Prerequisite: Grace Intermediate Guitar or approval of skill level by teacher) - Accepting New Student for Spring Semester at this skill level: This is a moderately advanced course that will cover, more in depth, the fundamentals of playing rhythm guitar and music theory. The focus will be deepening understanding of the fret board, alternative chord voicings, songwriting and improvisation. Weekly topics are subject to change as feedback from students and their progress is … [Read more...]
Thursday *JH & HS Elective (AM2B) – Beginning Photography
ONE YEAR CLASS - Full Class - No New Students: In this photography class, students will be learning the fundamental skills of photography including composition, camera operations and image editing through basic editing software. They will be conducting creative projects for homework assignments, some of which will be printed, that encourage different aspects and angles of how to see a photo. Some of the topics include nature, sports, black and white, perspective, and industrial. The elements … [Read more...]
Thursday JH & HS Elective (PM1A) – The Art of the Argument (Debate)
NEW ONE SEMESTER CLASS: This great Debate class will teach students to reason with clarity, relevance, and purpose in a fun and engaging environment. From the publisher: "They will study and master 28 logical fallacies, which will provide an essential lifetime framework for filtering good and bad reasoning as well as writing and speaking effectively. This mastery of informal logic is a foundational subject by which other subjects are evaluated, assessed, and learned." … [Read more...]
Thursday HS Elective (AM1C) – High School Psychology
ONE YEAR CLASS - Accepting New Students for Spring Semester: This high school elective is an introduction to psychology. The purpose of this course is to lay a foundation in psychology for students from the Christian perspective so that when they take the required psychology course in college, they will be more able to distinguish between truth and untruth. The students will be utilizing their textbooks, homework, quizzes/tests, assigned activities, and projects or papers to learn about … [Read more...]
*Tuesday HS Elective (PM1A) – Leadership Skills
ONE YEAR CLASS - No New Students: 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, … [Read more...]