BB 10/27/23

BRADFORD BULLETIN

VOLUME XVI, ISSUE 15

Oct 27, 2023

 

FROM THE OFFICE

IMPORTANT NOTES:  

  • 2nd Quarter:  Plymouth to bring in extra supplies (required)
  • SOCKTOBER: Socks will be collected through November 3rd at the lower school campus. 

 

LOWER SCHOOL:

  • FROM MRS. MITCHELL:  Did you know that October 31 is Reformation Day?  That might not be the calendar event that comes to mind for most Americans.  Reformation Day marks the anniversary of the day that Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church in 1517.  This sparked a spiritual turning point that led to the formation of Protestantism, which has undoubtedly influenced many aspects of modern life.  While we do not mark or celebrate Halloween at school, we do get excited about this history changing event.
  • Picture day is THURSDAY, 11/2.  **K – 4th grade students must wear their dress uniform!  Sweater included.**
  • Bradford Night:  Mark your calendars!  K – 2nd grade will perform in our annual Bradford Night on Thurs, 11/16 at 7pm.  Friends and family welcome!

UPPER SCHOOL:  

  • Parents Days:  Thurs 11/2 and Fri 11/3 
  • Picture day is Friday, 11/3

UPCOMING

IN THE NEAR FUTURE:

  • Sat, 10/28:
    • Soccer State Championship:  12:00 at:
      NC Wesleyan University (Rocky Mount, NC)
      3400 N Wesleyan Blvd, Rocky Mount, NC 27804
    • Leiden HOUSE SOCIAL
  • Tues, 10/31 First Varsity Boys Basketball practice (3:15-5pm at Old Rec Center) Tu/W/F this week
  • Thurs, 11/2 and Fri, 11/3:  Parents’ Day at Upper School Campus
  • Thurs, 11/2:  Lower school Pictures – K-4th grade students must wear dress uniform!
  • Fri, 11/3:  
    • Upper school Pictures
    • Austerfield HOUSE SOCIAL
  • Sat, 11/4:
    • Scrooby HOUSE SOCIAL
  • Mon, 11/6: First Varsity Girls Basketball practice (3:15-5pm at Old Rec Center) 
  • Thurs, 11/9:  5th grade Hobbit Play (at lower school campus)
  • Fri, 11/10:  NO SCHOOL – Veterans Day observed – Bradford Camp offered for TK – 8th grade students!  (Registration form coming soon.)
  • Thurs, 11/16:  Bradford Night (K – 2nd), 7pm – parents, grandparents, friends welcome!
  • Tues, 11/21:  Thanksgiving Feast and activities (TK – 4th), Declamation and Pumpkin Rugby (5th – 12th)
  • Wed, 11/22 – Fri, 11/24:  Thanksgiving break
  • Fri, 12/1 – Applications open for NEW students
  • Thurs, 12/14 – Christmas Concert (Upper school)
  • Wed, 12/20 – TK Nativity Play
  • Thurs, 12/21 – 
    • End of 2nd quarter
    • NOON DISMISSAL – Christmas break commences!

 

FROM THE TEACHER’S DESK

 

GRAMMAR SCHOOL

 

Transitional Kindergarten (Mrs. Grubb and Mrs. Weber)

This Week
  • The highlight of our week in TK was pumpkins! We harvested seeds, flavored & roasted them, and then were able to enjoy them on Thursday along with some other pumpkin flavored treats. In math, we focused on covering designs with pattern blocks and making a matrix using shape pieces. We also focused on writing number 5. Students were introduced to compound words this week. See if your child can tell you what a compound word is (1 word plus another word, put together to make a new word)! During our Bible time this week, we read about Moses and the Ten Commandments. Next week, we will read about Joshua and begin learning a new Bible verse for November. 

 

Lower School P.E. (Mrs. Bennington)

K – 4th
  • Students did a great job in P.E. this week preparing for the Greek Olympics. All grade levels worked on pacing and increasing their endurance to most effectively run the marathon. 

Lower School Music (Mrs. Bennington)

K-3rd
  • Students did a great job this week working on the following songs: “I Need Thee Every Hour”, Trust and Obey”, and “Tis So Sweet”.  Students are making big strides in correctly matching pitches and singing with confidence. 
4th 
  • Students have been working on recorder songs that reinforce their ability to correctly read and play songs with the notes: G, A, and B. Students did a great job with their  playing test on the piece, “Lullaby”.  Students have been encouraged to take their recorders home and practice their music three to four  times a week. 

Lower School Art (Mrs. Palmer)

3rd
  • We spent our time this week studying about our artist of the quarter, Rembrandt Van Rijn.  Ask your student to share a fact (or several!) about what they learned with you!
4th
  • We began working with our next medium, oil pastels, this week.  Students learned about how to apply pressure, blend and create desired texture with their new medium. 

Kindergarten (Mrs. Rivera and Miss Burdeshaw)

This Week: 
  • The week was filled with excitement, as our kindergarten scholars were anticipating the Greek Olympics on Friday. We learned a few new concepts in math, which were addition facts that added zero to a number, covering a design in different ways with pattern blocks, finding a sum by counting on, making and reading a bar graph, and using logical reasoning to solve a problem. In phonics, we introduced the phonograms “ch” and “sh” and continued to practice sounding out words in our first reader, Pan and the Mad Man. In history, we began a new section on the Judges from the Old Testament. In art, we used crayons and made leaf rubbings from various types of trees. Finally, we had our Greek Olympics! The students had fun racing and participating in all the games, and it was all-around a fun time that everyone enjoyed.
Memory Work: 
  • Genesis 1:1 and review

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

This Week: 
  • We started the week with great anticipation of the Greek Olympics on Friday. First, we had four learning packed days. In math the students learned about adding 10 to multiples of 10, finding missing numbers on hundred chart, identifying pairs, dividing a set of objects into groups of 2, identifying tens and ones, identifying halves, fourths, and eights of a whole, creating and reading a bar graph. We got the opportunity to taste test various apples to see which one would be our favorite and then record the data onto a graph. We’ve enjoyed reading Frog and Toad “The List” and talking about how sometimes being a good friend means just sitting with a friend when they are sad. In history we wrapped up our study of Christopher Columbus and started our book on Pocohontas. For grammar there was good discussion about the moral of the story The Hen and the Golden Eggs as well as more common nouns and proper noun practice. The students have learned more than half their double letter phonograms from the SWR curriculum. Please keep reviewing phonograms using the phonogram app. We had a great time participating in the Greek Olympics on Friday!
Memory Work:  
  • Proverbs 2:6-7
Upcoming: 
  • State projects due Monday, November 13th.

 

2nd Grade (Mrs. Hedgecock & Mrs. Eng)

This Week: 
  • In anticipation of the Greek Olympics on Friday, we have worked hard to complete all our work in just four days.  Learning grammar helps lay a solid foundation for good writing skills.  Recently we have worked with singular and plural nouns, common and proper nouns, simple subject and simple predicates as well as continual review of adverbs and adjectives.  We enjoy writing our own sentences and will soon start writing paragraphs.  In science it is exciting to see a few of the seeds start to poke above the soil.  Learning the names and locations of the continents and oceans helps us understand the world God created and lays a foundation to future travels abroad.   Our goal is to be able to draw a world map!  Our Latin studies this week include classroom commands.  Many of these commands have derivatives that the students are familiar with including repetitive from repete, sedentary from sede and scribble from scribe.  Next time you want your child to sit down try saying “sede” and see if they respond.  
Memory Work:
  • Hebrews 11:13-14
Upcoming:
  • Middle East Country Project  

 

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

This Week
  • Our history card this week tells us democracy began with the Greeks. The Greeks had three main bodies of government called the Assembly, the council of 500, and the courts. Every citizen was expected to vote on every law. We discussed how our government is also composed of three branches, but that we vote for a person to represent us instead of voting on every law ourselves.  In math, we discovered time travel! Students learned about the six different time zones in the United States. We worked on making nouns possessive and translating latin phrases. We  finished off the week with our all day Bradford Olympics! Students competed in the pentathlon, chariot races, and “marathon.” It was a great end to another great week!
Memory Work:
  • I Thessalonians 4:9-10
Upcoming:
  • 11/13 Greek god projects DUE

 

4th Grade (Mrs. Burtram and Miss Abrahamsen) 

This Week
  • Fourth grade has continued our study of poetry this week; the kids have written all different kinds of poetry, and they are really enjoying it. Writing poems filled with science and history content have been challenges for the kids, and they have risen to the challenge. In math, geometry and fractions have taken center stage. The students are learning to recognize acute, obtuse, and right triangles and angles. They are also becoming more adept at working with fractions and recognizing how often fractions are used in everyday life. We reviewed many concepts in Spelling, Latin, and Grammar this week, so, Lord-willing, we will be ready to head into the study of new content with feelings of confidence!
  • Upcoming
    • Memory: Psalm 23: 4-6
    • Field Trip- November 7 to Duke Gardens
    • Feudal System poster project: details will come during the week of November 6 (Project DUE: 11/17)

 

LOGIC SCHOOL

 

Mrs. Bennington

5th-6th Band
  • Students did a great job turning in their first practice record.  Students were given their second practice record to complete and turn in by Tuesday, October 31st. Practice Records will be due every Tuesday. Students worked on exercises that included their first five notes and performed well on their test on 1.29. Students  also started working on their Christmas Concert Music. 
7th-9th Band 
  • Students did a great job turning in their first practice record. Students were given their second practice record for the quarter and are expected to practice 90 minutes by Tuesday, October 31st.  Practice Records will be due every Tuesday. Students worked on exercises from Unit 4, their Christmas Concert Music, and on their Eb scale. Students did a great job on their  Eb scale test. 

Mrs. Campbell

5th-8th Chorus
  • Chorus students discussed whole notes vs. half notes, practiced hearing and holding parts in harmony, and continued working on a Christmas song.

Mr. Webster

5th-8th Boys’ PE
  • This week we ran a mile and played soccer. 

Miss Stevenson

5th-8th Girls’ PE
  • This week we played basketball and volleyball.

 

5th Grade (Mrs. Owens) 

This Week
  • Students continued to dive into the 1600’s and more specifically we looked at the Massachusetts Bay Colony.  We studied the difference between the Puritans and the Separatists and the reasons for both groups making the journey to the new world.  In Voyage to Freedom, our new literature book, the students are following the journey of the Lovelace family as they board the Speedwell in hopes to make it to Virginia.  In grammar, the students continued to practice using their capitalization and punctuation rules to find mistakes in a friendly letter.  Students have also started studying the basics of chemistry and this week we learned about atoms and what makes up an atom.  Ask your student if they can name the three parts of an atom.  
Memory Work:
  • Psalm 51:10-12 (this week)
  • Isaiah 40:1-2 (next week)
Upcoming:
  • Hobbit Day – Thursday, November 9th 

Mrs. Palmer

5th Art
  • Students have been working on creating oil pastel pumpkin drawings this week.  We have worked on blending, color theory and creating composition in our works of art. 
Mrs. Kromhout
5th Latin
  • We started a new chapter this week, and have been getting to review verbs! We reviewed the present, imperfect, and future tense endings and learned what each of the tenses are used for. 

 

6th Grade (Miss Stevenson)

6th Reading and Literature
  • We are continuing to read Across Five Aprils. We watched a documentary about the battles at Fort Henry and Fort Donnelson to help prepare us for the events of Chapters 4 and 5.
6th Grammar and Writing
  • This week we visited the Mebane Public Library to begin research for our research paper that is due on Wednesday, November 15. An annotated bibliography is due on Wednesday, November 1. 
6th Bible
  • We finished reading the gospel of Matthew this week. Next week we will start working through Mark.
6th History
  • This week we learned about the Opening of the Oregon Territory.
6th Science
  • We prepared for and took a quiz about the criteria for life.
6th Logic
  • This week we started looking at the fallacies connected to making assumptions.

Mr. Hunter

6th Latin
  • This week the students were introduced to the perfect system. Soon they will know all six tenses of the indicative verb in Latin. They also learned about Livy and read some of Lucan’s Pharsalia. 

Mrs. Frueh

6th Math
  • This week was all about decimals. We learned how to compare decimals on a number line; how to use decimals in reporting measurements in the metric system; and how to add, subtract, multiply and divide decimals. 

Mrs. Palmer 

6th Art
  • This week we began working on colored pencil landscapes inspired by the Dutch countryside (in honor of our artist of the quarter, Rembrandt).  Students have been hard at work blending, choosing the correct colors and honing in detail. 

Mrs. Crotts

7th Grammar and Writing
  • Students reviewed important literary terms and took a quiz.  They are tasked with including these intentionally in upcoming writing assignments.
  • Often students ask the question, “How can I make an A?”  The results are in!  Read, be read to, listen to audible stories and write!  Just as a musician, ballerina, artist or an athlete practices, so to must a reader and writer pick up the sword to better understand and communicate.  Reading and hearing great writing enables a student to grasp grammar mechanics and creative, clear phrasing.  Writing—even five minutes a day—can improve when a student puts what they have heard together on paper.  Also, writing improves when the student works ahead of a deadline and follows this pattern: the student writes, takes a break, rereads the question/issue, then rereads what he or she wrote, takes a break and then reads what he or she wrote out loud, and finally shares the writing with a parent or classmate for feedback.
  • Take advantage of a long car ride or quick trips and listen to audio stories, or always have a book with you and read even if briefly!
7th Omnibus
  • Literature: Students are working hard towards a successful presentation of the Odyssey Play!  We invite you to be part of the audience on Friday, November 3 at 10 A.M.  Thank you for your support in helping students learn lines and spruce up the dynamics…”Louder! More emotion! Just how would Polyphemus (the cyclops) feel after his one eye was ruined?” What would Homer’s audience think?
  • History: We viewed  ancient maps and reflected on what was happening in the Bible during the time of the Odyssey.
  • Bible/Theology: We continued discussions of the Noahic Covenant.

Mr. Johnston

7th Logic
  • We completed chapter one of our Logic text with a chapter test.  Chapter one covered Ad Fontem arguments which is one of three subcategories for Fallacies of Relevance.  We began chapter two, Appeals to Emotion.

Mrs. Frueh

7th Science
  • We have started our unit on Earth’s structure and spent time this week learning about the Earth’s compositional and mechanical layers. We discussed the role that heat and pressure play in determining the state of matter for each layer. We also discussed the role that seismic waves play in allowing us to study these layers hidden deep below Earth’s surface.
  • On their own, students are working on their formal lab reports for the soil investigation. Rough Drafts are due November 8th. This lab report can by typed OR handwritten.
7th Pre-Algebra
  • The students were introduced to the four Properties of Equality and then used them to solve for the unknown in an algebraic equation. They also practiced using the order of operations to simplify more complex algebraic expressions.

Mrs. Palmer 

7th Art
  • We studied Greek order architecture this week.  Students are currently creating small studies in charcoal of Doric, Ionic and Corinthian architecture.  

Mr. Hunter

7th Latin
  • This week the students learned the pluperfect and future perfect forms of the indicative. They also learned about Livy and read some of Lucan’s Pharsalia. At the students’ request, we also covered a portion of Catullus 5. 

 

Mrs. Kromhout

8th Omnibus
  • History: In history this week we reviewed the Byzantine empire and Justinian’s leadership as emperor and began learning about another empire that developed and began growing in the 7th century – the Islamic empire. We are also learning about Anglo Saxon culture and practices as we prepare to begin Beowulf!
  • Literature: We finished the Rule of Benedict this week, having some great discussions about the place of discipline in our lives and learning about the way monks lived and worshiped in the middle ages. 
  • Composition: Students have been working on carefully writing their Augustine essays, which will be due next week. This is their biggest essay so far! We are also learning to write with parallels to make their writing clearer and smoother. 

Mr. Hunter

8th Latin
  • This week the students learned the pluperfect and future perfect indicative forms. They also read selections from Livy, Lucan’s Pharsalia, and Catullus 5. 

Mrs. Frueh

8th Science
  • Our focus this week was on Isaac Newton, specifically his universal law of gravitation. We discussed the role that both mass and distance play in determining strength of gravity on an object. We also discussed Newton’s theological writings and some of his more unorthodox views. 
8th Algebra I
  • The students were introduced to rational algebraic expressions. We were able to apply the many exponent rules that we’ve learned to simplify complex rational expressions. We were also able to apply the distributive property and our knowledge of like terms to simplify the expressions even more.

Mrs. Palmer 

8th Art
  • This week students finished up charcoal studies of fall leaves.  We focused specifically on correct use of the medium as well as contrast. 

Mr. Crotts

8th Logic
  • Students are learning to make and keep note cards with important terms and concepts.
  • We are working on managing our time to complete tasks during our fifty-minute class.
  • Our goal is to learn to use words correctly  in well-formed statements in order to form arguments that are true, persuasive, and avoid fallacies.

 

RHETORIC SCHOOL

 

From the COLLEGE COUNSELING Office:

Parents/9th-12th: 
  • Two upcoming visits from college reps:
    • On Wednesday, November 1st from 11:45-12:20 (lunch hour) a Colorado Christian University rep will be speaking to our students both about the university as well as dual credit opportunities through our elective program and their online course program. 
    • We have a Thales College rep visiting on November 2nd from 2:15-2:45, which happens to also be Parents’ Day – parents, you are welcome to join! Thales offers a unique program, focusing on making their liberal arts education both affordable and practical in part through co-ops and internships for each program. They currently offer programs in entrepreneurial business, mechanical engineering, and classical education. 
Seniors:
  • Seniors should keep a close eye on upcoming deadlines! Many colleges have priority and scholarship deadlines of November 1st. Pray for our seniors as they work through this busy season!

 

Mrs. Palmer 

9th Spanish 
  • Students learned about ER and IR verb conjugations.  We also learned two irregular verbs, their meanings and how to conjugate them.  We studied possessive adjectives as well as continued to work with new vocabulary.

Coach Johnston

9th History
  • Students completed their overview of the Seven Years War/French & Indian War, took a quiz on the political evolution taking place in England during the 17-century, and began to consider the three, repeated, major issues that would combine to form the general causes for the American Revolution: closed border to expansion, taxation without representation, and the quartering of troops in colonial homes.

Mrs. Frueh

9th Geometry
  • We wrapped up our unit on parallel and perpendicular lines with a unit test. The students are becoming skilled in applying the theorems and postulates discussed in class to write geometric proofs. They are also learning the importance of their algebra skills in solving geometry problems.

Mr. Crotts

9th Logic
  • Our class is mastering the process or steps for determining the validity of arguments when all truth values are not present.
  • We have learned to use the information we do have, and following the rules of logic, solve the mystery!

Mrs. Fairchild

9th Advanced Art
  • The students continued to do art analysis and worked to understand paintings by Peter Breugel, Auguste Renoir and Cindy Sherman.  Some of the paintings were challenging to understand and led to discussions on whether art had to be beautiful to be considered good. The Triumph of Death in particular was a difficult painting to consider because the artist wanted us to wrestle with the reality that all humans will eventually die and their souls will pass into eternity.  

Mrs. Hicks

9th Biology
  • This week we looked at Fungus that students brought in. They identified it and did presentations on the various phylum’s. Students also completed a test on Module 4 and a discussion about Biology and the Bible.

Mrs. Crotts

9th Literature
  • Students are reading Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and preparing for an essay.  They were given a list of essay topics such as creation ex nihilo, technology and ethics and consequences, AI (artificial intelligence), or a comparison of “the Modern Prometheus” and Prometheus’ ancient tale.  Also, they were given a “heads-up” on assignments due throughout the remainder of the quarter including a research paper on an author from modern history and a literary term quiz.
  • Often students ask the question, “How can I make an A?”  The results are in!  Read, be read to, listen to audible stories and write!  Just as a musician, ballerina, artist or an athlete practices, so to must a reader and writer pick up the sword to better understand and communicate.  Reading and hearing great writing enables a student to grasp grammar mechanics and creative, clear phrasing.  Writing—even five minutes a day—can improve when a student puts what they have heard together on paper.  Also, writing improves when the student works ahead of a deadline and follows this pattern: the student writes, takes a break, rereads the question/issue, then rereads what he or she wrote, takes a break and then reads what he or she wrote out loud, and finally shares the writing with a parent or classmate for feedback.  
  • Take advantage of a long car ride or quick trips and listen to audio stories, or alway have a book with you and read!

Dr. James

10th Chemistry
  • This week we continued learning about periodic trends and information about elements that can be gleaned from the periodic table. 
  • Next week the students will take their first test of Q2.  Afterward, we will begin a study of chemical bonding.  Friday’s class is available for Parent’s Day.

Mrs. Palmer 

10th Spanish
  • This week students learned about double object pronouns.  We broke down sentences grammatically and learned how to reorder them in a more concise manner.  We continue to work with both present and preterite tenses and we added new vocabulary. 

Mrs. Byrd

10th Algebra II
  • Topics for the week include uniform motion problems, simplifying radical expressions, simplifying complex fractions, equations of perpendicular lines, and fractional exponents.

Mrs. Crotts

10th Literature
  • 10th graders presented character sketches from the Iliad.  They took a quiz that involved explanations of three of the numerous poems in the work—poem of rage, delusion/deceit, and glory.  We also spent time talking about how to be challenged more in writing.  Don’t just write, but prepare by thinking and even researching a topic.  Don’t abandon skills learned in past years of brainstorming and organizing through an outline.  Be patient and humble and ask for editing help and then take pride in your finished product.  We briefly discussed a research paper assignment about an author due in December that will include an annotated bibliography.
  • Often students ask the question, “How can I make an A?”  The results are in!  Read, be read to, listen to audible stories and write!  Just as a musician, ballerina, artist or an athlete practices, so to must a reader and writer pick up the sword to better understand and communicate.  Reading and hearing great writing enables a student to grasp grammar mechanics and creative, clear phrasing.  Writing—even five minutes a day—can improve when a student puts what they have heard together on paper.  Also, writing improves when the student works ahead of a deadline and follows this pattern: the student writes, takes a break, rereads the question/issue, then rereads what he or she wrote, takes a break and then reads what he or she wrote out loud, and finally shares the writing with a parent or classmate for feedback.
  • Take advantage of a long car ride or quick trips and listen to audio stories, or alway have a book with you and read!

Miss Oldham

10th Rhetoric I
  • Students gave elevator pitches to Mrs. Fairchild this week. It was an interesting look at how to write an elevator pitch and how to address a new audience. 

Coach Johnston

10th History
  • Students concluded the overview of Israel and we are two days into reading the story of Cyrus the Great. What were the attributes of his character and policies as king which earned him honor ever since? Next week we will begin a brief overview of Phoenician, Assyrian, Babylonian and Persian history which will take a couple of weeks to complete.
10th PE
  • Students played another great game of flag football on Tuesday, which combined improving offensive routes and throws alongside more organized and focused defense highlighted by a number of interceptions that represented missed opportunities last week. We concluded the week with a lighter day of dodgeball on the outdoor courts as students were given multiple challenges with rule/objective changes which forced teams to figure out new strategies in order to gain victories. 

Mrs. Byrd

11th Precalculus
  • We concluded a unit on polynomial functions – learning techniques to locate real and complex roots as well as constructing graphs and equations.
11th Physics
  • On Monday we headed to Walker Field to launch our compressed air rocket.  We spent a day analyzing our data and also worked on other projectile motion problems.

Miss Oldham

11th Literature
  • We continued with Shakespeare Othello. 

Mr. Webster

11th History
  • This week we continued our study with the Carolingian Empire. 

Mr. Hunter

11th NT Greek
  • This week the students continued learning the forms of the present active indicative, and they were introduced to contract verbs. We also discussed the writings of Plato and Aristotle. 

Mrs. Fairchild

11th Elective: Portfolio
  • The students are working out their designs for block printing.  They are to incorporate flora and fauna into their art and demonstrate their ability to create texture.

Coach Johnston

11th-12th Elective: Military History
  • Our class continued to look at America’s growing involvement in both the European and Pacific theaters of World War II. We considered the limited choices that naval officers could make in the Pacific due to a European focus, but how they wisely (and God sovereignly) led them to follow a course of action which would both shock Japan (Doolittle Raid) and effectively defend themselves (Coral Sea, starting to get into Midway). We then jumped to the European theater to see how America opened a second front in the fighting in North Africa through Operation Torch, and despite costly lessons at Kasserine Pass, America would capture nearly one million Axis soldiers prior to its primary attack on mainland Europe. Next week we will conclude Midway and Operation Husky and begin our study of D-day.

 

Dr. Smith

11th-12th Apologetics & Philosophy
  • This week and next we will be exploring the worldview concept. The term was first used by the philosopher Immanuel Kant in the late 18th century. We will explore not only how it was used by Kant and other non-Christian philosophers, but also to what degree it is legitimate to think of Christianity as a worldview and what the strengths and weaknesses are of using the worldview concept within Christian apologetics.

Coach Johnston

12th History
  • Students have had a lot of military lessons applied to sports competitions this week in question and answer moments. We have been learning a number of important terms regarding warfare and applying that to the study of the Seven Years War and French & Indian War in North America.

Miss Oldham

12th Literature
  • We continued with Hamlet. Students do have an outside book to read and write an essay on, so they should be working on that as well. 
12th Rhetoric II
  • Seniors’ first drafts are due Nov. 17th, which is coming up quickly. The time is flying by and the students are learning how to manage their time and the importance of self-discipline. Please be in prayer for them this quarter as they write their theses. 

Mrs. Byrd

12th Calculus
  • We concluded our unit on more complex types of differentiation.  Next we will apply differentiation to various contexts such as velocity and acceleration, related rates, and local linearization.

Mrs. Hicks

12th Anatomy
  • This week we wrapped up the Urinary System. We also started studying  the Respiratory System!