K-12 Scope & Sequence

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The curriculum followed at Stonehaven is demanding of even the most gifted students so as to maximize their God-given gifts and talents.

The work is challenging... but so is the world our young people will inevitably enter one day. Students will need to be able to spot and then handle the falsehoods and equivocations rampant in the secular world which insidiously draws in the gullible and unprepared. It is the task of Stonehaven to sharpen the minds of its students, to teach them to think logically, methodically, deeply, and critically. Students will be taught to "question all things."

Kindergarten

  • Bible - Select stories & character studies in Old and New Testaments
  • Reading & Language Arts- Abeka Phonics, beginning primers, Zaner-Bloser, Handwriting
  • History & Geography - Brief introduction to American figures, map skills, holidays
  • Mathematics - Saxon Math K and supplements
  • Science - Studies in senses, seasons, nutrition, plants, and animals
  • Cocurriculars - Music, Art, & Physical Education

First Grade

  • Bible - Select stories in Old Testament
  • Reading & Language Arts - Abeka Phonics 1, Shurley Grammar 1, Grammar of Spelling 1, Zaner-Bloser, Handwriting
  • History & Geography - SOTW 1 Ancient Civilizations, Greece and Rome, (Creation - 400 AD)
  • Mathematics - Think! Mathematics Grade 1
  • Science - Beginning activities & instruction emphasizing observation & discovery Science 1 BJUP
  • Cocurriculars - Music, Art, & Physical Education

Second Grade

  • Bible - Select stories in New Testament
  • Reading & Language Arts - Shurley Grammar 2, Grammar of Spelling 2, Zaner-Bloser Cursive
  • History & Geography - SOTW 2 Medieval, Renaissance, Reformation (400 - 1600 AD)
  • Mathematics - Think! Mathematics Grade 2
  • Science - Exploring Creation with Astronomy
  • Cocurriculars - Music, Art, & Physical Education

Third Grade

  • Bible - God's Great Covenant : Old Testament 1 (Genesis - Ruth)
  • Reading & Language Arts - Shurley Grammar 3, Grammar of Spelling 3
  • History & Geography - SOTW 3 Early Modern Era (1600 - 1850 AD)
  • Mathematics - Think! Mathematics Grade 3
  • Science - Exploring Creation with Zoology 1 Birds & Insects
  • Latin - Picta Dicta
  • Cocurriculars - Music, Art, & Physical Education

Fourth Grade

  • Bible - God's Great Covenant: Old Testament 2 (Samuel - Malachi)
  • Reading & Language Arts - Shurley Grammar 4
  • History & Geography - SOTW 4 Modern Era (1850 - present)
  • Mathematics - Think! Mathematics Grade 4
  • Science - Exploring Creation with Botany
  • Latin - Picta Dicta
  • Cocurriculars - Music, Art, & Physical Education

Fifth Grade

  • Bible - God's Great Covenant: New Testament 1 (Gospels)
  • Reading & Language Arts - Rod & Staff Engish 5, Grammar of Spelling 5 Grammar of Poetry, Imitation in Writing Greek Myths
  • History & Geography - Dorothy Mills Ancient History (Creation - 400 AD)
  • Mathematics - Think! Mathematics Grade 5
  • Science - Exploring Creation with Zoology 2 & 3 : Swimming Creatures and Land Animals; beginning Human Anatomy and Physiology
  • Latin - Picta Dicta
  • Cocurriculars - Music, Art, & Physical Education

Sixth Grade

  • Bible - God's Great Covenant: New Testament 2 (Acts and Paul's Epistles)
  • Reading & Language Arts - Classical Medieval Literature, Vocab Workshop
  • History & Geography - Dorothy Mills Medieval History (400 - 1600 AD)
  • Mathematics - Sadlier Oxford - Progress in Math
  • Science - Exploring Creation with Human Anatomy and Physiology
  • Latin - Picta Dicta
  • Cocurriculars - Music, Art, & Physical Education

Seventh Grade

  • Bible - Old Testament I: Genesis - Song of Solomon
  • Literature - Early Modern Literature (Essential Texts: The Giver, Tartuffe, Much Ado About Nothing, Frankenstein, Little Women , Poetry, Short Stories)
  • History- Medieval / Early Modern History (Sources of the Western Tradition, Marvin Perry)
  • Mathematics- Pre-Algebra (Fundamentals of Algebra, Sadlier Oxford)
  • Science- Earth Science (Earth Science, Novare Science)
  • Logic- Formal Logic (Traditional Logic: Introduction to Formal Logic, Martin Cothran)
  • Latin- (Lingua Latina per se Illustrata, Hans Orberg)
  • Practica - Unique classes in both manual and fine arts such as Woodworking, Archery, Drawing & Painting, Farm & Garden, Drama, Choir, etc.

Eighth Grade

  • Bible - Old Testament II: Amos - Nehemiah
  • Literature - Modern Literature (Essential Texts: The Screwtape Letters, The Hiding Place, Fahrenheit 451, The Crucible, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Romeo and Juliet, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, To Kill a Mockingbird, Poetry, Short Stories)
  • History - Modern History (A Concise History of the United States, Robert Remini, The Boisterous Sea of Liberty, Mintz and Davis)
  • Mathematics - Algebra I (Elementary Algebra, Harold Jacobs)
  • Science- Physical Science (Physical Science, Novare Science)
  • Logic- Informal Logic (The Art of Argument: An Introduction to the Informal Fallacies, Aaron Larsen and Joelle Hodge with Chris Perrin)
  • Latin - Latin I (Lingua Latina per se Illustrata, Hans Orberg)
  • Practica - Unique classes in both manual and fine arts such as Woodworking, Archery, Drawing & Painting, Farm & Garden, Drama, Choir, etc.

Ninth Grade

  • Bible - New Testament Survey
  • Literature - Ancient Literature (Essential Texts: Beowulf, The Odyssey, Song of Roland, The Canterbury Tales, Macbeth, Oedipus Rex, Confessions of St. Augustine , English Renaissance and Metaphysical Poetry, Mythology, Short Stories)
  • History - Ancient History (World History, Ninth Edition, Duiker & Spielvogel and excerpts from primary sources)
  • Mathematics- Geometry (Geometry 3rd Ed.Harold Jacobs and Euclid's Elements)
  • Science- Biology (General Biology by Novare Science and The Riot and the Dance Lab Manual)
  • Logic- Dialectic (The Argument Builder and Everyday Debate and Discussion, by Shelley Johnson)
  • World Language - Latin II (Lingua Latina per se Illustrata, Hans Orberg) or Spanish I (Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling®: Look I Can Talk, Señor Wooly, and supplementary texts)
  • Practica - Unique classes in both manual and fine arts such as Woodworking, Archery, Drawing & Painting, Farm & Garden, Drama, Choir, etc.

Tenth Grade

  • Bible - Historical Theology (Essential Texts: Rule of St. Benedict, Thomas a Kempis' The Imitation of Christ, Justo Gonzalez' Church History )
  • Literature - Medieval / Early Modern Literature (Essential Texts: Inferno, Paradise Lost, The Great Divorce, King Lear, Don Quixote, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, A Tale of Two Cities, English Romantic Poetry, Short Stories)
  • History AP European History: Medieval & Early Modern History (World History, Duiker, Spelvogel, Silence, Shusaku Endo, and excerpts from primary sources)
  • Mathematics- Algebra II & Trigonometry (Algebra II & Trigonometry: Functions and Applications, Paul Foerster)
  • Science- Chemistry (Chemistry, Novare Science)
  • Rhetoric- Rhetoric I (Rhetoric Alive, Book I by Alyssan Barnes)
  • World Language - Latin III (Lingua Latina per se Illustrata, Hans Orberg) or Spanish II (Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling®: Look I Can Talk, Señor Wooly, supplemental texts)
  • Practica - Unique classes in both manual and fine arts such as Woodworking, Archery, Drawing & Painting, Farm & Garden, Drama, Choir, etc.

Eleventh Grade

  • Bible - Systematic Theology
  • Literature - American Literature (Essential Texts: Their Eyes Were Watching God, East of Eden, The Scarlet Letter, The Sun Also Rises, The Great Gatsby, Othello, Age of Innocence, American Poetry, Short Stories)
  • History - AP United States History: American History (American History, Thomas Kidd, Voices of Freedom, A Documentary History, The Underground Railroad, Colson Whiteheard, and excerpts from primary sources)
  • Mathematics - Pre-Calculus (Algebra II & Trigonometry: Functions and Applications, Paul Foerster)
  • Science - AP Chemistry (Chemistry, AP Edition, Zumdahl); Physics (Introductory Physics, Novare Science) Human Anatomy & Physiology (Advanced Biology Textbook, Apologia, Kaplan Medical Anatomy Coloring Book)
  • Rhetoric- Rhetoric II (Rhetoric of Love, Veritas Press)
  • World Language - Latin IV (Lingua Latina per se Illustrata, Hans Orberg) or Spanish III (Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling®: Look I Can Talk, Señor Wooly, supplementary texts)
  • Practica - Unique classes in both manual and fine arts such as Woodworking, Archery, Drawing & Painting, Farm & Garden, Drama, Choir, etc.

Twelfth Grade

  • Bible - Applied Theology: Apologetics & Worldview (ESV Bible, Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis)
  • Literature - AP Literature: Modern World Literature (Essential Texts: Pride and Prejudice, 1984, Hamlet, The Plague, The Metamorphosis, The Brothers Karamazov (excerpts), Faust, Cry, the Beloved Country, Modernistic Poetry, Short Stories)
  • History - Modern World History (World History, Duiker, Spelvogel, Silence, Shusaku Endo, and excerpts from primary sources)
  • Mathematics - AP Calculus AB / BC (Calculus of a Single Variable, AP Edition, Cengage/Larson)
  • Science- Physics (Introductory Physics, Novare Science) Human Anatomy & Physiology (Advanced Biology Textbook, Apologia, Kaplan Medical Anatomy Coloring Book)
  • Rhetoric- Senior Capstone
  • World Language - Latin V (Lingua Latina per se Illustrata, Hans Orberg) or Spanish IV (Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling®: Look I Can Talk, Señor Wooly, supplementary texts)
  • Practica - Unique classes in both manual and fine arts such as Woodworking, Archery, Drawing & Painting, Farm & Garden, Drama, Choir, etc.

Grammar (Pre-Polly)

Grades: K-2
Ages: 4-8

Characteristics

  • Obviously excited about learning
  • Enjoys games, stories, songs, projects
  • Short attention span
  • Wants to touch, taste, feel, smell, see
  • Imaginative, creative

Grammar (Poll-Parrot)

Grades: 3-6
Ages: 9-11

Characteristics

  • Excited about new, interesting facts
  • Likes to explain, figure out, talk
  • Wants to relate own experiences to topic, or just to tell a story
  • Likes collections, organizing items
  • Likes chants, clever, repetitious word sounds
  • Easily memorizes
  • Can assimilate another language well

Logic (Pert)

Grades: 7-9
Ages: 12-14

Characteristics

  • Still excitable, but needs challenges
  • Judges, critiques, debates, critical
  • Likes to organize items, others
  • Shows off knowledge
  • Wants to know "behind the scenes" facts
  • Curious about Why? for most things
  • Thinks, acts as though more knowledgeable than adults

Rhetoric (Poetic)

Grades: 10-12
Ages: 15-18

Characteristics

  • Concerned with present events, especially in own life
  • Interested in justice, fairness
  • Moving toward special interests, topics
  • Can take on responsibility, independent work
  • Can do synthesis
  • Desires to express feelings, own ideas
  • Generally idealistic

"They do not know what the words mean; they do not know how to ward them off or blunt their edge or fling them back; they are a prey to words in their emotions instead of being the masters of them in their intellects." - Dorothy Sayers