WORKLOAD FOR JUNIORS & INTERMEDIATES

 

Every Month

  • Art History: One painting.

  • Music History: One selection of Classical Music for listening 

  • Literature: One complete novel.

  • Virtue: One every month. 

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

Every Two Weeks

  • Composition: One finished writing assignment.

  • Art Workshop: One directed sketch. 

Every Week

  • 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.  

  • History: A few pages a week. 

  • Science: One double sided page per week with minimal information.  

  • Grammar: Usually one lesson per week for Intermediates, one section of a lesson for Juniors. 

Every Day

  • One chapter of a book, 5 or 6 days a week.  

  • Review the Latin vocab flashcards.  

  • Review Grammar term flashcards. 

Optional - We make available in the homework email but we don’t monitor.

  • Typing Club.

  • IXL Math - aligned with the AB PoS.  

  • Duo Lingo Latin starting in second year of Latin for Juniors and Intermediates.

  • Parent Resource.  (One video per term)

  • Health: one item per week.  To satisfy AB Ed. 

  • Safe Environment, one item per week — to satisfy the Ordinariate. 

Exams & Assessments

  • Either written or oral exams in most subjects are administered at the end of each of the four terms. Students are given study guides as well as class time for review.

  • Regular assessments throughout the term are also used to help measure student progress.

Some Readiness Benchmarks 

Typically —

by the end of grade three a student should:

  • have completed a phonics program and be a fluent reader. 

  • be able to print fluently.

  • be able to write a complete sentence independently. 

By the end of grade six a student should: 

  • be proficient in cursive.

  • be proficient at a keyboard.

  • be able to write a unified paragraph independently. 

 

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero