High School
The final stage of secondary education is the
rhetoric or poetic stage. Students in the rhetoric stage are
called upon to arrange facts into arguments, and to move beyond
peer-level competition into mature relationships, exhibiting
wisdom as learning is applied. With these ends in view, students
learn to identify and analyze assumptions made by peers, texts,
and teachers, learning along the way that they must take captive
every thought for Christ. A successfully trained rhetoric student
should know, by the grace of our Lord, how to think God’s thoughts
after him.
At ACCA, we believe with other
Classical Christian educators that “the teacher is the lesson.”
While we aim to maintain rigor in our academic disciplines, the
aim of a class always rises above its text: Latin solidifies the
order of language, science kindles a desire to find order and
express wonder at God’s creation, mathematics reveals underlying
structure in varying magnitudes of creation, and the humanities
display God’s unending providence in the superintendence of man’s
affairs.
We offer both a full time schedule
for students as well as a single subject option.
Examples of curriculum are:
- Apologia Sciences (Physical,
Biology, Chemistry, Physics)
- Teaching Textbooks Math (Algebra
I, Geometry, Algebra II, Pre-Calculus, Calculus)
- Social Studies/Sciences (World
History, US History, Government & Economics)
- Literature (Fundamentals,
American, British, World)
- Composition (MLA standards)
- English (Grammar Review)
- Henle Latin I & II
In addition to core subjects, we
offer a variety of electives (Foreign Languages, Home Ec, SAT
Prep, College Study Skills, Debate, Yearbook Publishing, Art, etc)
as well as bible, music, and drama.
FULL TIME: High
schoolers meet on campus all three days (Mondays, Tuesdays, and
Thursdays). We have structured the class time to accommodate
finishing as much homework on those days as possible, however at
the this level, homework is inevitable (reading, composition,
math, etc, cannot all be finished within the class periods).
Although we have rigorous standards, we have a balanced amount of
homework, freeing up the students some to pursue extra-curricular
activities such as playing sports, being involved in a club or
theater, working, or even taking supplementary college classes.
PART TIME: We also offer students who are participating in other programs the opportunity to take to up to three single subject high school classes (or up to 30 units) at Adelphia which range from 2 to 4 hours a week. Classes offered for the 2018-2019 School Year are:
- Lit & Comp I & II
- Lit & Comp III & IV
- Physical Science
- Chemistry
- Pre-Algebra
- Algebra I
- Algebra II
- Pre-Calculus
- US History
- Government / Economics
- Latin I
- Latin II
For a full description of these
classes offered, please see our High School Catalog HERE.