Materials Fee: $ 25 Cost per semester: $220 Includes Non- refundable deposit: $50 ($55 per month) Payment Plan available Curriculum:  $ 45 Max/Min Students: 10/5 Grades:  9-12   Shakespeare on Stage     Course Description: In this course students will have the opportunity to experience four to five Shakespearean plays. Though the emphasis is on the viewing of Shakespeare’s works as performance, the literary aspects of the written text will serve as a supplemental resource. Students will be expected to read all plays studied for class and may read some independently outside of class. Oral and written critical analysis plus a class project will be required.  Plays studied will be performed on stage by the students at the culmination of each semester. This class counts for a one-year high school English Credit. Curriculum: Twelve plays by Shakespeare by William Shakespeare Tales from Shakespeare by Charles & Mary Lamb   The teacher will present a summary of the plays, the class will read excerpts, and activities will include discussion, writing and performing scenes from the play in class.   Twelfth Night Julius Caesar Romeo & Juliet Much Ado about Nothing The Taming of the Shrew   William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English Language and the world's preeminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.   Class Time: 1 1/2 hours. This is a two 14-week semester, 7 month, class.

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Materials Fee: $ 35 Cost per semester: $195 Includes Non- refundable deposit: $50 ($55 per month) Payment Plan available Curriculum: $ 70 Homework: Yes Hours/Week: 2-3 Max/Min Students: 10/5 Grades:  4-6   Zoology   This class will include a field trip to the zoo and aquarium Fall semester:  Aquatic Animals From the rivers and streams to the mighty ocean, God filled the Earth's waters with animals great and small. Upon His Word, enormous whales sprung into being. At His command, billions of plankton leapt to life. On that day, millions of creatures like the strapping sea turtles, the skulking sharks, the delightful dolphins, and the soaring squid gladly joined their fellow sea animals. How joyously crammed with excitement was the fifth day of earth's existence. This class will explore the wonders of the swimming creatures made on the fifth day of Creation. We will begin with a big splash from the whales and dolphins, then spy on seals and meet manatees before swimming with the sea turtles, snakes, and salamanders. We will even peek in on the primeval plesiosaurus and its pals. From the microscopic to massive, no stone is left unturned in your student's passage through the waters of the world. The creatures your student studies will come to life as your student creates replicas of them and adds them to his Ocean box - a miniature hand-crafted aquarium. As always, each lesson ends with an experiment or project reinforcing the scientific method and the concepts studied. Among other experiments and projects, your student will try on blubber, investigate a shark's ability to sense electrical currents, explore how whales can hear sounds that come from far away, and learn through experimentation which creatures make the best fossils. No matter how near or far you live from the ocean, you and your students will wonder at God's design in the amazing aquatic animals He formed and fashioned on the fifth day.   Spring semester:  Land Animals   What separates people from apes? How can a Great Dane be related to a Chihuahua? Is there evidence that people and dinosaurs lived at the same time? What should you do if you encounter a bear? How can you tell if a snake is poisonous? Come find out answers to these questions and many, many more with Apologia’s Exploring Creation with Zoology 3! This third book in the zoology series takes students on a safari through jungles, deserts, forests, farms, and even their own backyard to explore, examine and enjoy the enchanting creatures God designed to inhabit the terrain. Students will discover the amazing animals from primates to parasites, kangaroos to caimans, and turtles to terrifying T-Rexes— this safari doesn’t end there! Students will also keep a record of where each animal is found on a map and learn to identify animal tracks.   REQUIRED TEXTS: Apologia’s “Exploring Creation with Zoology 2” and “Exploring Creation with Zoology 3” Available at the Center for Home Education Book Store. Class Time: 1 1/2 hours.   This is a one year, 14-week class.

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Materials Fee: $ 20 Cost per semester: $140 Includes Non- refundable deposit: $50 (Compare at $40 per month) Payment Plan available Curriculum: $30 Max/Min Students: 10/5 Grades:  K-3   A Journey through Fairy Tales   This class is sure to capture a child’s God given imagination and sense of adventure while sending them on a learning journey that is fun and exciting. Components of the class include reading fairy tales, comparing Cinderella stories from around the world, drama, puppets, and writing/or dictating to the teacher their own fairy tale. This is a unit study that will include: language arts, social studies, drama, and music.   The class will study different fairy tales than last year, and perform a new readers’ theater play.   First book of Fairy tales by Mary Hoffman You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You: FAIRY TALES Class Time: 1 hour.   This is a one semester, 14-week class.

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Materials Fee: $ 25 Cost per semester: $195 Includes Non- refundable deposit: $50 ($55 per month) Payment Plan available Curriculum: $ 35 Homework: Yes Hours/Week: 2-3 Max/Min Students: 10/5 Grades:  4-6   History comes Alive   Experience an in-depth look at American History through reading, writing, debate, arts and crafts, building dioramas and readers’ theater. We will read literature from that era, explore the geography and culture of the time, read the journals of children, explore the history, the food, and more! This class will culminate with a student performance. Homework consists primarily of map work, studying for tests, reading assignments and the gathering of information in preparation for written and oral reports. Students will also research one historic person from each period to do a presentation on. Projects may require outside materials such as project boards and materials for building dioramas. Required texts: War, Peace and All That Jazz. A History of US: Book 9: 1880-1917  by Joy Hakim   All the people since 1945. A History of US: Book 10: 1918-1945  by Joy Hakim Class Time: 1 1/2 hours.   This is a two 14-week semester, 7 month, class.

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