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Sample Course Plans

Curious about our course plans?  View some samples online!

   
 

The books and resources to obtain and how to use them are detailed for the family, grade by grade. Materials recommended are suitable to the home school; both the student and the teaching parent will find them easy to use. Many texts have unit quizzes, and answer keys, too. Where texts do not include their own pace and plan of study, we have added weekly or quarterly course plans. Our parent guides, course outlines and newsletters also suggest a variety of alternative means for gaining and demonstrating mastery of academic skills and subject material.

After evaluating the student's assessment your curriculum advisor puts together a personalized curriculum guide for the student that includes course notes, lesson plans, and book ordering information for each course that is recommended for the student's skill level.

Below you will find sample pages from a handful of our courses.  The Academy has developed hundreds of courses that can be classified into four categories:

  • Grammar School - courses designed for students in grades Pre-1st through 8th.

  • General Education - courses intended for non-academic, remedial, or concrete learners.

  • College Preparatory - courses designed to equip the student to step into the college classroom.

  • Liberal Arts - courses that introduce the students to the classics and focus on analytical thinking, reading, and writing.

 

Click on the links below to view sample pages from the following course plans.  You will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer to view the sample pages.  Adobe Acrobat Reader is available for free download from the Adobe website.   

Religion


Religion 1       (Standard: Grade 1)

36 Week Course Plan: Faith & Life 1 : Our Heavenly Father

Introductory Catholic Apologetics       (Standard: Grade 12/General Education)
18 Week Course Plan: A Philadelphia Catholic in King James's Court; Where We Got the Bible...Our Debt to the Catholic Church

 

English / Language Arts


Formal Composition I      (Standard: Grade 9/College Prep.)

18 Week Course Plan: Formal Composition I using Format Writing



Grammar & Composition V      (Standard: Grade 5)

36 Week Course Plan: Voyages in English 5/Paragraph Strategy III

Phonetic Spelling      (Standard: Grades 3-8)
W.I.S.E. Guide for Spelling with St. Thomas Aquinas Academy Steps

 

Languages


Latin Intro.      (Standard: Grade 6)

Prima Latina Teacher Manual, Prima Latina Student Text, Pronunciation CD

 

Algebra


Algebra I      (Standard: Grade 9/College Prep.)

Jacobs' Elementary Algebra

 

Social Studies / World History


Greek History      (Standard: Grade 9/Catholic Liberal Arts)

36 Week Course Plan: Christ the King: Lord or History; Old World and America; Greenleaf Guide to Famous Men of Greece; Herodotus’ The Histories; Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War; Xenophon’s The Persian Expedition (Anabasis); Plutarch’s Rise and Fall of Athens (Parallel Lives); Alexander the Great

 

Science


Introductory Physics      (Standard: Grade 5)

36 Week Course Plan: Usborne Book of Science with lab.

 
   
   



 

 

 

 

 

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