Academic Workload

Example: Middle School Grades 5-8.

**This draft is based on previous years and is subject to change. General principles apply.**

Every Month

Art History: Study one painting.

Music History: Study one selection of Classical Music for listening.

Literature: Read one complete novel (6-8 a year depending on length and difficulty).

Virtue: Study and memorise one every month.

Latin: A typical Latin chapter has about a dozen new vocab terms.

Every Two Weeks

English Composition: One finished writing assignment (much of this is done in class).

Art Workshop: One directed sketch.

Every Week (most weeks)

Memorise:

• Holy Scripture: Two verses of scripture.

• Poetry: Up to four lines of a poem.

• Spelling list: The complete rules are studied and repeated every year.

• A history date/fact.

Church History: Complete and review a few pages of a workbook per week.
(mostly done in class)

Science: Complete once science experiment and accompanying pages of the lab book. (mostly done in class)

English Grammar & Composition:

• Complete & review a few pages of a workbook per week. (mostly done in class)

• Complete a vocabulary worksheet corresponding to the literature chapters being read.

Every Day

Read one chapter of a book, 5 or 6 days a week.

Review and memorise Latin vocab flashcards and review grammar endings.

Review and memorise English grammar term flashcards.

Math as taught and assigned by parents.

Committed to Communication:

Our staff and administration remain in constant contact with parents through comprehensive and detailed Homework Emails weekly, on-going updates about events and activities, and by having different parent volunteers present most days in the school. Our doors and inboxes are always open!