Middle School and High School Course Descriptions

Middle School Courses

Introduction to Formal Logic

This course will introduce formal logic training and the art of reasoning well from a foundation of Biblical truth. Students will develop critical thinking skills, identify fallacies, discern truth, construct arguments, and more.  This course is ideal for seventh through ninth-grade students and fills a prerequisite for the Rhetoric I course.

Latin I & Latin II

Latin I is an introductory course suitable for students with no Latin experience as well as those with rudimentary exposure.  Both classes will utilize the Orberg (spoken) method with cross-application of English grammar reinforcement. Students will learn Latin by introducing the basic concepts of the Latin language via investigation, discovery, memorization, and advanced application.  The class will be divided to accommodate various ability and skill levels as necessary (based on enrollment). 

High School Courses

American History and Government

This course will overview American History from the pre-colonial period through the start of the 21^st Century. Students will examine America’s historical, religious, and philosophical foundations through primary sources to understand and discuss the nation’s core principles.

Biology

Honors Biology is a laboratory-based high school course. The course uses the Discovering Design with Biology text by Dr. Paul Madtes Jr and Dr. Jay L. Wile, published by Berean Builders. Students are expected to read the assigned text before gathering each week in class. We will discuss the readings, review concepts, and complete lab experiments during class.

Chemistry

This course requires students to have completed a physical science and biology course. (These prerequisites did not need to be filled at KCA.)   

Latin I, Latin II, and Latin III

Latin I is an introductory course to Latin suitable for students with no Latin experience as well as those with rudimentary exposure. Next, Latin II is for students who have a solid understanding and are ready to be challenged beyond the foundations of Latin.  Both classes will utilize the Orberg (spoken) method with cross-application of English grammar reinforcement. Students will learn Latin by introducing the basic concepts of the Latin language via investigation, discovery, memorization, and advanced application. The teacher will provide supplementary materials to help students work through the grammatical and linguistic concepts while incrementally introducing them to the art of spoken Latin, reinforced by reading adapted and unadapted classical works. The class will be divided to accommodate various ability and skill levels as necessary (based on enrollment). 

Medieval Humanities

Were the Middle Ages really the Dark Ages? This course examines the thousand-year period between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance – a time of kings, queens, knights, epic quests, and natural and mystical wonders. The development of the Church during this time brought about a Christianized Europe struggling to balance the right to rule with ruling well, resulting in clashes between the political and the religious. It was a time of plagues, crusades, and mystery. 

This course will cover the historical, political, religious, literary, and artistic growth of Europe.  Students will read classical literature (culminating Dante’s Divine Comedy), develop a robust vocabulary utilized within various writing prompts, and participate in Socratic dialog. Some development of grammar will be incorporated as necessary throughout the course to improve the writing process. 

Spanish I, Spanish II, and Spanish III

Spanish is one of the world’s most prominent and fastest-growing spoken languages. Initially, we will build from introductions and beginning dialogue, read from written passages and stories, and utilize visual arts and media, thus enhancing our vocabulary and understanding of sentence structure. Following a Charlotte Mason teaching style, we will work from the known to build and form oral and written sentences. Embedded in this process, we construct a grammatical understanding of Spanish.  By developing language skills, one can begin to interact cross-culturally, learn another’s heart language, and assist in one’s English grammatical understanding. 

Spanish I is an entry-level course open to seventh-grade or higher students.

Rhetoric I & II

Rhetoric I is an introductory course that teaches students classical rhetoric from a Christian perspective. This course equips students with tools of communication and will teach the theory of using words well. Students write essays, engage in class discussion, memorize past speeches, debate, and write and present original speeches. Formal Logic is a prerequisite for this class. (This prerequisite did not need to be filled at KCA.) Basic knowledge of grammar and writing styles are recommended skills for students enrolling in this course.

Enroll in Middle School or High School Courses:

• Courses are taught by a qualified professional teacher, and they meet in person twice a week on a block schedule.
• Annual Tuition for each course is $1000. This includes instruction and curriculum.
• The maximum enrollment per course is twelve students, and a minimum of eight students per course.
• The admission deadline for each secondary course is May 15th, 2025
• Please check back regularly for updated course offerings. Please email your questions to office@kaloskc.com.