BB 09-19-25

BRADFORD BULLETIN

VOLUME XVIII, ISSUE 11

Sept 19, 2025

 

FROM THE OFFICE

IMPORTANT NOTES:  

  • Uniform Reminders:  Sweaters are required for the 3rd and 4th quarters.  Please place your orders now if you have not done so already!  They will be wearing them for school pictures as well.  
  • Zipcast:  Sign up for Zipcast by texting BANC to 833-409-4823.  The Zipcast is delivered straight to your phone via text around 7:00 a.m. on Mondays (or if we are off of school, it comes the next school day).  This is a great tool to stay informed not just on Bradford news, but also the classical Christian movement as a whole. It is good for kids to listen to as well!  Challenge them to listen for the word of the week and listen also for the joke.  They will take in even more!
  • Upcoming events and permission slips for each:

LOWER SCHOOL IMPORTANT NOTES:

FROM MRS. MITCHELL: 
  • Constitution Day was commemorated this week during Forum on Monday and Friday.  Having time all together to consider big ideas is a blessing that we truly enjoy.  The United States Constitution was signed on September 17th two hundred and thirty-eight years ago!  We discussed the historical context as well as the wisdom that our founding fathers had to work together through disagreements to form a government with a unique balance of power.  We hope that students think more deeply about the words that they recite from the Preamble every day.  If you haven’t read the Constitution lately,  I hadn’t either.  You can find it here at the National Constitution Center.
  • Upcoming opportunities to spend time with your student or your student’s teacher!  Parents, we value your time and your presence on campus.  We hope that publishing these signups early will enable you to plan ahead for maximum participation.  We appreciate your joining us when you can.  Click on the sign ups below to register.

UPPER SCHOOL IMPORTANT NOTES:

UPCOMING

NEXT WEEK:
  • Mon, 9/22 – 
    • ACC College Fair for 10th – 12th grades
    • 3:30 HOME Varsity Girls Volleyball
    • 4:00 HOME Varsity Girls Tennis
  • Tues, 9/23-  4:00 – AWAY XC Meet for MS and Varsity teams
  • Wed, 9/24 – 4th grade Field trip to NC Botanical Gardens
  • Thurs, 9/25 – 
    • 7:50 – Archer Prayer Group at Lower school campus – all parents welcome!
    • 11:45 – Upper School Chorus – visit Police Department
    • 4:00 – AWAY XC Meet for MS and Varsity teams
  • Fri, 9/26 – Last day of Q1
    • 1st grade Field trip to Alamance Battleground
    • 3rd grade Field trip to Greensboro Science Museum
    • 3:30 – HOME MS Boys Soccer game
    • 4:00 – AWAY Varsity Boys Soccer game
    • 6:00 – AWAY Varsity Girls Volleyball game
IN THE NEAR FUTURE:
  • Mon, 9/29 – Fri, 10/3 – FALL BREAK
  • Week of 10/6:  Intensive Short Term – 9th – 12th grades
  • Tues, 10/7:  3rd / 4th grade Running Club begins
  • Wed, 10/8:  
    • 7:45 – 11th grade – PSAT at Burlington Christian Academy
    • 3:15 – 10th grade Meeting:  Preview 11th and 12th grade at Bradford
  • Thurs, 10/9:  Coffee and Conversation with Mr. Johnston at Traveling Addiction
  • Wed, 10/15:  Parent – Teacher Conferences (No school for students)
  • Thurs, 10/16:  School Pictures at Lower School  **Dress uniform with sweaters!
  • Fri, 10/17:  
    • School Pictures at Upper School  **Dress uniform with sweaters!
    • 5:30 – Leiden House Social
    • Sat, 10/18:  5:30 – Plymouth House Social
  • Fri, 10/24:
    • XC – State Championships
    • 5:30 – Austerfield House Social
  • Sat, 10/25:  5:30 – Scrooby House Social
  • Thurs, 10/30:  11th Grade – College Info Night (for students and parents)
  • Fri, 10/31:  Greek Olympics at Lower School
  • Thurs, 11/6:  Upper School – Parents Day 
  • Fri, 11/7:  Upper School – Parents Day
  • Tues, 11/11:  Veterans Day – no school
  • Thurs, 11/13:  3rd – 4th grades – Bradford Night Program, 6:30p
  • Fri, 11/14:  5th grade – Hobbit Day
  • Tues, 11/25:  Thanksgiving feast and activities
  • Wed, 11/26 – Fri, 11/28:  Thanksgiving break, no school
  • Mon, 12/1:  26/27 APPLICATIONS OPEN

FROM THE TEACHER’S DESK

GRAMMAR SCHOOL

Transitional Kindergarten  (Mrs. Grubb and Mrs. Weber)

It was a joy to be in the kitchen this week making apple pies with the TK students! It was definitely a highlight of the week. On Tuesday, students helped peel and cut apples to make filling. We learned about the ingredients needed and how they work to make the filling delicious. On Wednesday, students filled mini tart pans with filling and then created a unique crust top using stamps. Yesterday was the apple pie feast where we were able to enjoy the fruits of our labor. We were so delighted to have so many family members join us for the feast. Thank you for your help in supplying ingredients and for volunteering your time to help and join us at the feast. While the apples were the star of the week, there were many other lessons and activities completed. We did not have any new math lessons this week but we did review identifying and skywriting numbers 1-10. Next week we will begin incorporating math worksheets into our lessons. Students continued to work in their green writing books this week and practiced holding a crayon properly. A few of our centers this week included: making numbers using play doh, practicing writing numbers on writing tablets, building and drawing Mat Man, identifying rhyming words, identifying parts of a book, and a sequencing activity. We read this week about Adam and Eve and the fall. We discussed what sin is and how much God loves us. Next week we will be reading about Noah.

Lower School Art (Mrs. Knight)

3rd & 4th
  • Our third and fourth graders continued to learn about Raphael this week and studied his compositions St. George and the Dragon and the Sistine Madonna. Raphael helped us to add some tools to our artist toolbox as we learned about techniques he used to create depth in his paintings.  Afterwards we began our first sketch of the year: third graders are working on a Greek soldier while fourth graders are sketching a Viking ship. They are storing their work in a portfolio. Make sure they say the word “portfolio” for you in their best British accent. 

Lower School Music (Mrs. Bennington)

  • Students did a great job this week reviewing the “Doxology” and verses 1-5 of “And Can It Be”. We spent a lot of time on “Non Nobis” in second – fourth grade. Students worked on learning parts for “Non Nobis”. The boys sang the melody and the girls started learning the descant. Third and Fourth grade students also played their recorders today. Please encourage your third and/or fourth grade student to practice their recorder. 

Lowers School P.E. (Mrs. Bennington)

K-4th
  • Students did a great job this week playing various types of games as the weather allowed. Students played catch and hand-eye coordination games. Students are working hard to learn what integrity is and how we apply that to games we play in P.E. 

Kindergarten (Mrs. Rivera and Miss Burdeshaw)

This Week:

Our kindergarten scholars are almost finished with the first quarter! Praise God for his faithfulness in bringing us thus far. In math, we learned how to count, compare, and order numbers 0-5. We also had a review day to go over the different concepts we have learned so far. In phonics, we reviewed the clock face and the loop letters, as well as their respective phonograms. The students have been working hard on their cursive writing skills! In history, we discussed the Tower of Babel and how God confused the languages. In art, we learned about the artist, Raphael Sanzio, who is our artist of the quarter. Raphael was an Italian painter and architect in the late 1400s to early 1500s. One of his most famous paintings is called “The School of Athens.” In science, we continued our unit on the five senses, specifically the sense of touch. The students made a hand craft by glueing five different textured items onto each finger. We then discussed what each item felt like. They thoroughly enjoyed this activity!

Memory Work:

1 John 1 :9 and review

1st Grade (Mrs. Cantaffa & Mrs. Smith)

This Week: 
  • This week in first grade we worked through Chapter 2 in Sadlier Math, practicing addition and subtraction, exploring fact families, and using number lines to solve problems. In reading, we enjoyed The Grand Cat and focused on characters, setting, and vocabulary. In grammar, we continued learning the differences between common and proper nouns and practiced using them correctly in sentences. The students also started their Explode the Code workbooks, which they are really enjoying as they build phonics and decoding skills. In art, we had fun drawing a lion step by step, paying close attention to shapes and details. For science, our Bird of the Month is the Mourning Dove, and we learned about its habitat, diet, and unique behaviors. In history, we finished reading about Leif the Lucky and began learning about Christopher Columbus. Looking ahead to next week, we are very excited for our field trip to the Alamance Battleground. We will also continue studying Columbus in history, keep working on common and proper nouns in grammar, and strengthen our phonics and reading with Explode the Code. 
  • Memory Work:  Review 
Upcoming:      
  • Field Trip to Alamance Battleground 

2nd Grade (Miss Verroi & Mrs. Eng)

This Week:

We started our study of ancient Egypt in about 3400 BC with the unification of upper and lower Egypt.  For the remainder of the year, we will adventure through HIS STORY by studying Ancient Egypt and how Bible characters crossed paths with Egypt.  It is an exciting adventure of a civilization that has influenced all of history.  We will also study how the Nile River affected Egyptian civilization.   After struggling as a class to “play fair” and “get along” it was such a blessing that our Bible Memory Verse this week was Romans 12: 18 If it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men. 19 Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord. We see small strides in the students choosing to overlook small offenses and not always wanting their own way.  We hope the students will come to realize that living in peace is more enjoyable than having their own way.   Our spelling test was a dictation exercise, which helps the students understand the value of being a good speller. A highlight of the week was hearing classmates read one of their favorite childhood books and learning why it was a favorite.  The students all did amazing with their presentations, thanks to all your help at home.  

3rd Grade (Mrs. Clark and Mrs. Meredith)

This Week:

In math, we learned about three digit subtraction. We also reviewed estimation and rounding to the nearest ten and hundred.  In history, we discussed the division of Israel into two kingdoms: Judah and Israel. Solomon turned away from God and built altars to honor pagan gods for his wives. God promised Solomon that he would not tear the kingdom away from him during his lifetime for the sake of his father, David, but rather from the hands of his son, Rehoboam. In science, students began adding their research to their posters.  Each group is  excited to share what they have learned about their biome’s habitat, location, food chain, and climate.  We are also looking forward to the field trip to the Greensboro Science Center next week!

Upcoming Memory Work:

1 Peter 3:8-9 and 1 John 1:5-6

Upcoming:
  • Field Trip to the Greensboro Science Center September 26, 2025

4th Grade (Mrs. Graham and Mrs. Rankin) 

This Week

Week 6 St. Benedict and Monasticism

Using his experience from previous monasteries, a monk named St. Benedict wrote a document called the Rule of St. Benedict which became the handbook for how monasteries should be governed. Eight hours of work, eight hours of prayer, and eight hours of sleep divided up their time. Students learned how monks preserved and passed on many of the Great Books of the Western World, copying these works by hand. On Wednesday, students embodied this meaningful work by becoming monks in our own Bradford Scriptorium where they created beautiful illuminated letters of their own. We dressed in robes, worked by candlelight, played Gregorian chants, and prayed throughout the day. It was a memorable lesson in history!

Students are working on a new persuasive paragraph, learning to support a thesis with reasons, which they will refine and present next week– this is excellent practice in the art of rhetoric. 

In math, we continued our use of estimating when subtracting numbers. Students are regrouping and deepening their understanding of the importance of place value. We continue to enjoy getting outside for science, collecting leaves to study and classify. Students are beginning to understand the importance of paying attention to the details of life. Doing all things with arete. 

Next Week:

Botanical Gardens Field Trip on Wednesday. 

Upcoming  Memory Work:

Philippians 4:4-8 & Catechism Questions #86 & 87

LOGIC SCHOOL

Mrs. Bennington

5th-6th Band
  • Fifth grade students did a great job learning their first, second, and third notes this week. A lot of time was spent on good playing posture, correctly holding each instrument, where to put hands and fingers, breathing through our mouths, keeping the beat, articulating, and making the correct sounds. Students will have a test on Tuesday 9/23 on  1.8 or 1.9  to assess proper playing technique and understanding of their first three notes. 
  • Sixth grade students continued to review concepts learned last year.  New students were given the opportunity to catch up and current students were given a chance to solidify their understanding of basic concepts. Extra focus was spent on correctly playing a variety of  dynamics.  Students will have a test on 2.11 on Tuesday 9/23. 
7th-8th Band
  • Students did a great job this week on book exercises. Students are showing growth in their range of notes. Students also worked hard on counting and playing a wide variety of rhythms. We continued to review  concepts in an effort to solidify our understanding of basic music theory.  Students will have a small group test on 4.32 on Tuesday 9/23. 

Mrs. Johnston

5th – 8th Choirs

This week, the choirs worked on clapping and counting rhythms, working with different time signatures, and the ability to do so successfully without the help of others. We also worked on identifying pitches based on where you were last to determine where you should go next. The students also spent a great deal of time applying solfeggio to the hymns And Can It Be (5th), Praise to the Lord (6th), and God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (7th/8th). In the song God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, we delved into minor keys and what the corresponding solfeggio would be.

Miss Stevenson 

5th-8th Girls’ PE
  • We continued playing ultimate frisbee this week.

5th Grade (Mrs. LaTour and Miss Johnston) 

This Week
  • 5th learned more about the third declension adjective endings and which form has three different terminations. We learned and reviewed the job of prepositions and the object of the prepositions and practiced classifying sentences. In history, we learned about three different men who explored the Northeast in the 14th century. In literature, we continued seeing Bilbo develop and grow in character throughout his journey with the dwarves. We started a new unit in science and the students learned all about their body systems project. It was a busy week as we anticipate the end of the quarter. Let’s end well! 
Memory Work:

Romans 12: 11-13

Mrs. Knight

5th Art
  • In art this week, we have been continuing to work on our first project, a sketch of Columbus’s ship the Niña. We have been singing a song “The Nine Fundamental Laws of Drawing” to introduce techniques we will be learning throughout this year. 

6th Grade (Mrs. McDorman and Miss Stevenson)

6th Reading and Literature
  • We are continuing to work our way through Call of the Wild.
6th Grammar and Writing
  • Students submitted the final draft of their Personal Narrative Essays this week. We also started working on the first persuasive essay from the Lost Tools of Writing book.
6th Bible
  • In Bible this week we continued to work through the gospel of Matthew.
6th History
  • This week in History we learned about the Cherokee Trail of Tears.
6th Science
  • Students submitted their Scientific Method projects this week! It was fun to see what they have spent the past few weeks working on!
6th Logic
  • This week we reviewed how to identify a red herring fallacy in an argument. 

Mrs. Crotts

6th Math
  • We have worked with dividing decimals this week!  L o n g division is so much fun!! 🙂

Mrs. Wright

6th Latin
  • This week the 6th grade Latin students finished translating chapter two of Lingua Latina.  They re-read section three in order to pay even closer attention to how the possessive pronoun in the 1st and 2nd person singular works in the text and then reproduce it themselves in exercises.  The main objective in chapter two is to learn how the possessive is expressed in the genitive case, which the class has worked hard to master.  They also took a practice pensa (test) on this material and we reviewed it together in order to  prepare for their upcoming pensa next week.

Mrs. Palmer

6th Art
  • We made great progress this week on our charcoal shoe still life drawings. Students worked to create the correct values as well as hone detail on their drawings. I am excited to see these come to fruition. 

Dr. Wright

7th Omnibus
  • Final drafts of research papers were submitted last week.  Students have returned Gilgamesh and Hammurabi books.  Copies of Homer’s Odyssey have been distributed, and we had our first read through of our Odyssey script, in preparation for the play next quarter.  Students have chosen their declamation speech, and are in the process of choosing specific portion(s) of that speech to memorize and recite.  

Mrs. Frueh

7th Science
  • We had a lot of fun this week learning about acids and bases in the context of soil chemistry. We explored the pH scale by testing several different substances using a red cabbage indicator solution. The students then determined whether each substance was an acid or a base and where each fell on the pH scale. This is an experiment that could be repeated at home with red cabbage and other simple household materials. 
7th Pre-Algebra
  •  This week’s lessons included multiplying and dividing multiple fractions, using prime factorization to find the Least Common Multiple of a set of numbers, and finding the average of a data set. Ask your student if they can describe three different ways to find a common multiple of a set of numbers and if they can explain the advantages of the prime factorization method over other methods.

Mrs. Palmer 

7th Art
  • Students worked hard this week and made progress on their original comic strips. They have used line in a variety of ways. I am excited to see these as they come together. 

Mrs. Wright

7th Latin
  • This week the 7th grade Latin students did some extra work around English grammar as it applied to their Latin sentences.   They re-read section three of chapter two in order to pay closer attention to identifying the parts of speech seen in the sentences presented and to specifically look for the possessive pronoun in the 1st and 2nd person singular as this is the main objective of this section.  Overall the goal of the chapter is to learn how the possessive is expressed in the genitive case to which the class has worked hard to master.  They took a practice pensa (test) and their chapter two pensa this week.
7th Logic
  • This year the 7th grade Logic class will cover 28 fallacies.  These fallacies are divided into three categories.  Unit 1 covers Fallacies of Relevance, in other words, does the argument RELATE to the issue at hand?  Within Fallacies of Relevance are three subcategories.  Last week we finished the first subcategory called Ad Fontem or “to the source.”  This week we begin to move into the second subcategory called Appeals to Emotion.  These are fallacies that, as you can predict, instead of sticking to the issue at hand will appeal to the audience’s emotions.  The students have been introduced this week to the Appeal to Fear and the Mob Appeal.  A big shout out to Dr. Wright (aka ‘Socrates’) for making his appearance in class this week!

Dr. Wright

8th Omnibus 
  • We continue through Athanasius, and are likely to finish that book next week.  We have been studying Roman history of the first four centuries, and memorizing the Nicene Creed.  Students have chosen their declamation speech, and are in the process of choosing specific portion(s) of that speech to memorize and recite. 

Mrs. Wright

8th Latin
  • This week the 8th grade Latin students did some extra work around English grammar as it applied to their Latin sentences.   They re-read section three of chapter two in order to pay closer attention to identifying the parts of speech seen in the sentences presented and to specifically look for the possessive pronoun in the 1st and 2nd person singular as this is the main objective of this section.  Overall the goal of the chapter is to learn how the possessive is expressed in the genitive case to which the class has worked hard to master.  They took a practice pensa (test) and their chapter two pensa this week.

Mrs. Frueh

8th Science
  • This week, we continued using dimensional analysis to convert between the metric system and the U.S. Customary System. We also discussed the difference between the Fahrenheit, Celsius, and Kelvin temperature scales. We learned three different strategies that can be used to convert between the different scales.
  • Quarterly Unit Exam: Wednesday, September 24th
8th Algebra I
  • We continued our work this week solving algebraic equations. We added the use of the distributive property, combining like terms, and collecting x-terms from opposite sides of the equal’s sign. Ask your student what strategies they have learned to isolate a variable in a multi-step equation.
  • If your student is struggling with this process, they are encouraged to seek help! The tutoring lab is open Monday through Thursday and is an excellent resource for students struggling in Algebra.

Mrs. Palmer 

8th Art
  • Patience is the name of the game for the famous artwork magazine project students are currently working on. We are aiming to correctly match nuances in color as we study a famous work of fine art. It is slow going but we are making progress!

RHETORIC SCHOOL

From the COLLEGE COUNSELING Office:

9th-12th:

Seniors
  • Seniors concluded the Resume Development and Interview Preparation Class with Dr. Mike Meredith and Mr. Rick Vogel. 
  •  Alamance Community College is hosting a college fair on Monday, September 22 at 10:30 AM-12:30 PM. This is an opportunity to visit with admissions representatives from various colleges such as Elon, Liberty University, NC State, Appalachian State, UNC Schools, etc.  Please fill out the permission slip that was emailed last week and let me know how many parents and students are able to attend and drive.
  • Three college admissions counselors will address students from 8:15 AM-9:00 AM on Thursday, September 25. (Grove City College, Bob Jones University, and Patrick Henry College)
  • Sign up at College Board for the SAT and ACT for Fall or Spring dates.
  • Narrow college choices and visits and also begin the application process.  Speak with teachers, coaches, and bosses to request recommendation letters.  Share your Activities List with them.
  • Focus on scholarship applications and deadlines.
  • College Counselor Meetings are available! Email for a time slot: mcrotts@bradfordacademy.org 
Juniors
  • Alamance Community College is hosting a college fair on Monday, September 22 from 10:30 AM-12:30 PM during the school day. This is an opportunity to visit with admissions representatives from various colleges–Elon, Liberty University, NC State, Appalachian State, UNC Schools, etc. Please fill out the permission slip that was emailed last week and let me know how many parents and students are able to attend and drive.
  • Three college admissions counselors will address students from 8:15 AM-9:00 AM on Thursday, September 25. (Grove City College, Bob Jones University, and Patrick Henry College)
  • Juniors take the PSAT at BCA on Wednesday, October 8 from 8 AM-12 noon.
  • Junior/Senior Preview Day is scheduled for Wednesday, October 8 from 3 PM-4 PM in Room 305.
  • Junior Info Night will be October 30 from 5 PM-6 PM in Room 305.
  • Juniors are required to take the ACT to receive the NC Opportunity Scholarship. Register at College Board.  
  • Juniors are encouraged to take the SAT for the first time in the spring.
  • Add to your Activity List for activities/jobs/hobbies/awards during 9th-12th grade years.
Sophomores
  • Alamance Community  College is hosting a college fair on Monday, September 22 from 10:30 AM-12:30 PM during the school day. This is an opportunity to visit with admissions representatives from various colleges–Elon, Liberty University, NC State, Appalachian State, UNC Schools, etc.  Please fill out the permission slip that was emailed last week and let me know how many parents and students are able to attend and drive.. 
  • ACC Librarian, Rebekah Scott will address 10th Graders about academic online research on September 26 from 9:25 AM-10:00 AM.
  • Junior/Senior Preview Day is scheduled for Wednesday, October 8 from 3 PM-4 PM in Room 305.
  • Add to the Activity List for activities/jobs/hobbies/awards during 9th-12th grade years.
Freshman
  • ACC Librarian, Rebekah Scott will address 9th Graders about online research for papers and scholarships on September 23 from 10 AM-10:45 AM.
  • Begin your Activity List for activities/jobs/hobbies/awards during 9th-12th grade years.

9th-12th Grades:

  • Looking ahead: The Alumni Panel will be on Thursday, December 18, 2025 from 1:45 PM-2:30 PM. 
  •  Career Day will be Thursday, February 26, 2026, from 12:30 PM-2:30 PM.

Mrs. Palmer 

9th Spanish 
  • Students took their first chapter test this past week. We also began learning to conjugate -AR verbs in the present tense. 

Coach Johnston

9th History
  • Students began a short second unit on the Reformation and the religious wars of Europe that resulted from the connection between church & state policy. We read Luther’s Here I Stand speech and as we shifted our attention towards America, the land where many immigrants from war-torn lands would travel to, we read and discussed James Madison’s Memorial & Remonstrance against establishing a state-backed church in Virginia. It was good to be reminded of several key truths: that each man’s standing before God his/her Creator is more fundamental than the authority that the state holds over us. That Christianity is a God-supported faith that succeeds without the support of state governments, even in the face of state-backed persecution. That Christianity’s teaching (purity) and its witness and service (efficacy) are stronger without the support of government, rather than with the support of government, along with twelve other reasons that Madison argues. We will continue to overview this important time in world history as we consider the religious wars, conflicts for independence, assassinations, and the growth of the church during the 16th and early 17th century.

Ms. Oldham

9th Rhetoric I
  • Students continued to work on finding thesis statements as well as identifying the three rhetorical appeals in a speech.

Dr. Byrd 

9th Bible Survey 
  • We have finished studying the book of Joshua. We have had our hearts blessed to learn about the faithfulness of God to the people of Israel as they conquered the Promised Land. God had promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that He would give them the Land. We were reminded that God keeps His promises (Joshua. 21:45). God used Joshua to bless the people and he followed carefully God’s Word (Joshua 1:8-9).
  • Test on Leviticus – Joshua on September 26th. 

Mrs. Frueh

9th Biology
  • We wrapped up our unit on Kingdom Monera (bacteria) with a cumulative exam. Our study of this unit has revealed the level of irreducible complexity found within bacteria, cells which many secular scientists have labeled the “simplest” forms of life on earth. Ask your student why the descriptive “simple” is deceiving for members of Kingdom Monera and why life on earth could not exist without bacteria.
  • Living specimen presentations will take place next week. It looks like it will be a lovely weekend to get outside and find a small artifact of life on Earth to identify, classify, and present to the class.

Mrs. Frueh

9th Geometry
  • We started our third unit this week on parallel and perpendicular lines. We started the unit by defining important vocabulary and identifying the types of angles formed when a transversal crosses two parallel lines. We added several new postulates to our resource books that we will use in the coming weeks to write proofs regarding lines and angles.

Mrs. Crotts

9th Literature
  • Students completed final edits to essays.  They also read more of Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities.  They also wrote a fictional tale in class about a Dickens ice skating scene.

Mrs. Fairchild 

9th – 11th Art Foundations
  • Our first watercolor plein air project is underway. We are hoping the weather continues to hold and that we can complete it before the end of the quarter. In addition to working on our painting, the students are being quizzed on Philippians 4:8 and we have had some short worldview discussions.

Mrs. Bennington

9th-11th Band 
  •   Students are showing growth in their range of notes. Students also worked hard on counting and playing a wide variety of rhythms. We continued to review concepts in an effort to solidify our understanding of basic music theory.  We also sight read several pieces to help better gauge our level of playing. Students are doing a great job!

Mrs. Johnston

9th-11th Bradford Chorale

We are dusting off some old repertoire, working on balance and listening skills. The students have done an excellent job “speed-learning” music, while also paying attention to some of the finer details. It’s amazing how a piece can constantly be improved even though some had already performed it in past years. We also spent time studying the Circle of 5ths (key signatures, order of sharps and flats). Finally, we learned the hymns Like a River Glorious and All Glory, Laud, and Honor to continue building our sight-reading skills.

Dr. James

10th Chemistry
  • This week we finished our lessons on atomic structure, focusing on electron configuration and how it contributes to reactivity.
  • Next week the students will take their third test of Q1. 

Mrs. Palmer 

10th Spanish
  • Students took their first chapter test this past week. We also compared and contrasted verbs in present and preterite tenses.  

Mrs. Byrd

10th Algebra II
  • We’ve completed our unit on linear functions and are in the middle of an application project involving best fit lines and average age of marriage data.  Next week we will begin a new unit on absolute value functions.

Mrs. Crotts

10th Literature
  • Students completed final edits to essays.  They completed reading the book of Job and wrote a poem of lament and hope.  Students learned about some of the main symbolism as they began reading the Iliad…rage, grief, etc.

Miss Oldham

10th Rhetoric II
  •  Students recited poetry and discussed the rhetorical appeal of logos. 

Coach Johnston

10th History
  • Students continued to read and discuss the history of Ancient Israel. We considered the Kingdom era of kings Saul, David and Solomon while also looking at how that era ended with the splitting of the nation during the reign of Rehoboam. Students will take a quiz on Ancient Israel next Wednesday (9/24).

Dr. Smith

10th Historical Theology 
  • We have completed looking at the foundational issues that have to be addressed in order to think, speak and write about the history of Christian theology, and have now begun looking at the first few centuries of that history. We begin this portion learning about the Greco-Roman culture in which the early church was birthed and did its initial theological work. 
11th Precalculus
  • We’ve been learning about polynomial functions this week.  We are learning how to identify key features from the functions and produce simple sketches of the functions.  Next we will learn how to find the roots (zeros) of polynomial functions which involves several algebra skills such as generating candidate lists, factoring, and synthetic division.  

Miss Oldham

11th Literature
  •  Students finished their journey through Dante’s Inferno. Next week they have a paper, a presentation, and a project due for this class, so they did receive a study hall on Friday to work on it as well. 

Dr. Smith

11th NT Greek
  • Students will take a test on the first nine chapters of the text. They have been improving in both their pronunciation of the Greek and translation abilities.

Mr. Webster

11th History
  •  This week we discussed the life of St. Augustine and how he both positively and negatively affected the Middle Ages. We also discussed the role of monasteries in the medieval church and how missionary work was facilitated through these local monasteries.  

Dr. Smith

11th-12th Apologetics
  • Students have just completed reading about the explanation of the gospel and how it is part of the gospel. We are looking at how God’s sovereign authority in accomplishing the gospel is organically united to its explanation as seen through the lives of Jesus, Peter and Paul. 

Coach Johnston

12th History
  • Students concluded our study of the American Revolutionary War and have begun to study America’s constitutional convention and how our current government was established. They were particularly pressed to recognize the many disagreements between leaders at the convention, and how delegates repeatedly had the option to insist on winning debates, leave the convention or find a compromise. One of the striking things about the convention will be the amount of compromises that will work (temporarily – like slave compromises; long-term – like federalism and state/population based compromises in the Senate/House of Representatives and Electoral College). Students were reminded that this was because the delegates largely recognized the significance and value of unity and the cost of disunity. I hope that that was a helpful lesson in the context of what has recently happened in American history.

Ms. Oldham

12th Literature
  •  Students began The Red Badge of Courage and they turned in their first independent book essays.  
12th Rhetoric III
  •  Seniors are meeting with mentors and continuing to work on research for their theses. We will begin writing during IST week after Fall Break, so if they’ve done well this quarter, the writing should not be too much of a hardship. Please be in prayer for our seniors as they work on and think through their theses. This is not an easy task, but they seem to be handling it well. 

Mrs. Byrd

12th Calculus
  • We are at the introductory level of derivatives – the second of three major topics for this course.  We began with a limit definition of a derivative.  Next we will learn a series of “shortcut” rules that will help us find various derivatives and then move on to several applications.