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While we cannot expose you to all aspects of our
classroom experience here, we have selected a few
highlights. These represent a small fraction of our
curriculum, but they do provide insight into our
classroom experience.
Foundations Grammar School (K-6)
Some things your child will read...
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Saxon Math
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Sattler Latin
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Tut’s Mummy (2nd)
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Little House in the Big Woods (2nd)
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Huck Finn (6th)
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The Island of the Blue Dolphins (4th)
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Hamlet (5th)
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Latina Christiana (3rd & 4th)
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Henle Latin I (5th & 6th)
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Exploring Creation with General Science (6th)
Some things your child will do...
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Act out scenes from Shakespeare (5th)
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Write 3 point paragraphs and short stories
(5th)
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Identify 30 master paintings, their style, and
their artists (K-1)
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Classically Cursive Penmanship (2nd)
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Ancient Egyptian Day (2nd)
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Traditions of the United States (1st)
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Parts of speech jingles (1st)
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40 famous men of the middle ages (4th)
Recitation:
This age loves to memorize using songs, chants,
rhythm, or rhyme. We use this to teach students all
sorts of factual material including: oceans and
continents, major pharaohs of Egypt, taxonomy
classification (biology), Greek and Roman history,
the Battle of Marathon, multiplication tables, the
Periodic Table of the Elements, countries of the
world, selected Shakespeare, the parts of speech,
prime numbers to 100, numerous Bible passages, and a
Renaissance and Reformation timeline, to name a few.
Foundations School of Logic (7-8)
Some things your child will read...
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The Aeneid– Virgil (7th)
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Caesar’s Gallic Wars (7th)
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The Confessions of St. Augustine (8th)
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The Prince– Machiavelli (8th)
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Foxe’s Book of Martyrs (8th)
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Civil Disobedience– Thoreau
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Ecclesiastical History of the English People
(8th)
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Of Plymouth Plantation– Bradford (8th)
Some things your child will do...
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Latin translation exercises in class
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In-class discussions of universal themes in
ancient writings
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Practice in formal logic and logical fallacies
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Informal debates on contemporary issues
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Role playing various socio-political groups in
antiquity
Socratic teaching:
This form of guided question and answer is highly
effective in teaching children to think. The teacher
typically asks a broad “opinion” question that seems
to have no right answer. Then, as the students
attempt to answer, the teacher guides them through
the use of logic toward the correct answer. While
this seems straight-forward, Socratic teaching is an
art. It takes time, which is why most schools do not
practice it. Foundations Academy is more concerned
with teaching students to think than filling their
heads with information.
Foundations School of Rhetoric
(9-12)
Some things your child will read...
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The History of the Kings of Britain
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History of the Peloponnesian War
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Plato’s Republic
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Homer’s Illiad
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History of England– Hume
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The Magna Carta
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Discourse on the Method– Descartes
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Democracy in America– Tocqueville
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Metaphysics of Mortals– Kant
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From Archimedes to Newton (calculus)
Some things your child will do...
12th graders complete a Summa project which
integrates at least four major disciplines (history,
philosophy, literature, art, theology, math,
science, language, or logic). They also write and
orally defend a senior paper that takes a position
on a controversial topic. 10th graders prepare for
the AP tests in Latin (to obtain college credit).
All students engage in debates to test their logical
and rhetorical skills. 11th and 12th graders have
the option of college prep calculus (1&2) and
physics (1&2).
Integrated Symposium (Summa):
In
our high school, students are focused on learning,
integrating, and communicating truth. This synthesis
comes together in our Summa courses. Students are
asked to do several research projects involving both
secondary and primary sources that integrate across
multiple subjects. They then must write a proposal
and defend it orally. In the end, a student
would present a written proposal and would defend
the proposal in front of faculty. |
