BB 12/01/2023

BRADFORD BULLETIN

VOLUME XVI, ISSUE 19

Dec 01, 2023

 

FROM THE OFFICE

IMPORTANT NOTES FOR ALL:  

2024 – 2025 School year:  We are doing a lot of tours for prospective families, and have many on the schedule over the next few weeks. Since space is limited in several classes across all grade levels, we wanted to get a couple of things on your radar regarding the 2024-2025 school year.

  • Applications for the 2024-2025 school year have opened!  Who needs to fill out an application?  
    • Parents who have a child who is NOT currently enrolled at Bradford but they would like to enroll for 2024-2025 (i.e. 4 year olds starting TK).
    • If you have friends and family who are interested in enrolling a child next year, please let them know the applications have opened!  
    • (Please DO NOT fill out an application for children who are currently enrolled.)
  • Enrollment for 2024 – 2025 school year:  
    • For students who are currently enrolled and will be continuing their education with us next year, there is nothing further that needs to be done at this time.
    • Students who are currently enrolled who will not be continuing with us next year, parents must submit a withdrawal notice in writing to the office no later than February 15th.  (Withdrawals after February 15th will incur an opt-out fee.)
  • Mebane on the Move Reindeer 5k:  TEAM BRADFORD – Saturday, 12/16  If you’re interested in running the 5k race downtown Mebane, we invite you to join “Team Bradford” and wear your Bradford gear! When you register, you can simply choose our team from the dropdown menu at the end of the registration.  This should be fun!
LOWER SCHOOL:
  • FROM MRS. MITCHELL:  Chores.  Does that word conjure up a negative or a positive experience in your mind?  A brief conversation with a 2nd grader encouraged me this week.  She needed to throw something away, but the trash had been emptied and needed a new bag.  She assured me that she could solve that problem because her chore this week is serving the class as the trash helper.  Our teachers are to be commended for their diligence to teach not only subject matter, but classroom chores that contribute to personal responsibility and a loving classroom environment.  Well-crafted instruction shapes the heart.  Proverbs 23:12 “Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to words of knowledge.”
  • K – 4th grade parents:  We are enjoying the advent season and planning is underway for our final 1/2 day of the quarter.  We traditionally enjoy several activities together as a school, which includes a special snack and story with Mr. Johnston.  If you are able to contribute snacks or volunteer to serve, please click this link to sign up.

UPCOMING

NEXT WEEK:
  • Fri, 12/1 –
    • Applications open for NEW students
    • Varsity Girls (5pm) and Varsity Boys (6:30pm) HOME games vs. Cape Fear Christian [Graham Recreation Center, 311 College St. Graham, NC 27253]
  • Mon, 12/4:
    • 6:00 pm – Class of 2024 – Senior trip planning and dinner at the Johnston home
    • 6:00 pm – Class of 2025 – Senior Trip meeting at Upper School Campus
  • Fri, 12/8 – 
    • 6th grade – Field trip to Appomattox Courthouse
    • Varsity Girls (6pm) and Varsity Boys (7:30pm) AWAY games vs. Lee Christian
IN THE NEAR FUTURE:
  • Thurs, 12/14 – 
    • 3rd Grade – Field trip to see Nutcracker, 9:30
    • Christmas Concert (Upper school) – 7:00 pm at upper school campus
  • Sat, 12/16 – Mebane on the Move 5k – Register under Team Bradford!
  • Wed, 12/20 – TK Nativity Play
  • Thurs, 12/21 – 
    • End of 2nd quarter
    • NOON DISMISSAL – Christmas break commences!
    • Remember:  No Moms’ Helper or Bradford Plus on early dismissal days.
  • Fri, 1/5: HOME Varsity Basketball games, starting at 5pm
  • Mon, 1/8:  1st day of 3rd quarter
  • Mon, 1/15:  MLK Jr day – no school
  • Fri, 1/26:  4th – 8th Spelling Bee
  • Mon, 1/29:  House Shirt day and Senior Night at basketball
  • Tues, 2/5:  CLT10 (Standardized Test) for 9th grade
  • Thurs, 2/15:  
    • CLT (Standardized Test) for 11th grade
    • Contract opt-out Deadline without penalty
  • Fri, 2/16:  Teacher workday (no school)
  • Mon, 2/19:  Presidents Day (no school)
  • Thurs, 2/29:  3rd – 4th grade, Bradford Night 2.0, 7pm
  • Fri, 3/1 – Sat, 3/2:  PARENTING CONFERENCE
  • Fri, 3/8: End of 3rd quarter – NOON DISMISSAL
  • Week of 3/11:  SPRING BREAK

 

FROM THE TEACHER’S DESK

 

GRAMMAR SCHOOL

 

Transitional Kindergarten (Mrs. Grubb and Mrs. Weber)

This Week
  • The TK students were excited to return to school this week after their break. We jumped right into reading of Jesus’s birth and began practicing for our nativity performance happening in a few weeks. The students have already worked so hard on learning songs and are excited to present it to you in a few weeks. Our focus this week was on the birth of Jesus. Next week we will focus on the shepherds. In math this week we practiced writing numbers 5-7 and introduced clocks learning to tell time to the hour on a digital and analog clock. Our letter of the week was C. We practiced writing C and talked about its sound. Next week our letter will be O. In centers this week we introduced word families, reviewed math concepts, completed a journal entry about our Thanksgiving break, and learned the life cycle of a Christmas tree. 

 

Lower School P.E. (Mrs. Bennington)

K – 4th
  • Students did a great job in P.E. this week. Students got a chance to complete various team building activities, play several rounds of Bingo, and some classes even learned a couple of line dances. 

Lower School Music (Mrs. Bennington)

K-3rd
  • Students worked on our hymn for the quarter, “O Come All Ye Faithful”. Students learned part of the harmony line for this piece as well.  We also worked on several other Christmas Carols in preparation for Christmas. Students did a great job. 
4th 
  • Fourth grade students worked on identifying pitches on the staff. They also worked on identifying notes that stay the same, that are a  step apart, and that skip. We ended classes by playing several songs on the recorder. 

Lower School Art (Mrs. Palmer)

3rd
  • Students finished drawing their self-portraits this week.  We also inked in our portraits and will soon be painting them.  We did these self portraits in an effort to mimic our artist of the quarter, Rembrandt. 
4th
  • Students began sketching a mixed media seasonal drawing.  We will be sketching, inking and painting these surprise drawings that will be sent home around the end of the quarter. 

Kindergarten (Mrs. Rivera and Miss Burdeshaw)

This Week: 
  • Our kindergartners had a great week back at school from Thanksgiving break! In math, we learned how to identify even and odd numbers, how to number a clock face, how to show time to the hour on a clock, and we practiced adding two to an even number. In phonics, we started our new reader “To The Rim of The Map,” and we added on the phonograms, “ow” and “ou.” In history, we reviewed our timeline of historical events and our history fact song. In art, we discussed the artist Rebrandt and in science, we had a visit from a local dental hygienist, who explained the importance of taking care of our teeth. 
Memory Work: 
  • 1 Corinthians 10:13 and review

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

This Week: 
  • The students have come back from Thanksgiving break ready for 3 full weeks of learning and showing what they know! We are also enjoying this special season of celebrating the birth of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus. The lights on our class trees remind us of The Light of Life that came into the world over 2,000 years ago. Take a moment to read John 1:1-14. In math the students are writing dates using digits, creating and reading a bar graph, creating and reading a venn diagram, and ordering two-digit numbers. They are also learning more complicated time and money skills. In history, we are beginning on our journey of learning about the courage, hard work, and faith of the pilgrims. Reading has the students learning about how God will clean the blackest of hearts when someone turns to Him. The students have done a great job in putting their sentence writing knowledge to use while practicing their spelling words. We’ve been practicing the use of pronouns in grammar. In art, the students had the opportunity to color a picture similar to one of Rembrant’s paintings. There has never been a cuter group of zoologists than the ones in first grade science learning all about the classifications of animals.
Memory Work:  
  • Psalm 1:1-2/ Catechism Questions 14 &15
Upcoming:      
  • Christmas Celebration, half day, end of the quarter, and start of Christmas break is December 21st

 

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

This Week: 
  • After a few days off it was nice to see the students again and see their enthusiasm for learning.  Our Bible memorization has continued in Hebrews 11.  From time to time have your students recite verses 1 through 22.  They are up to the challenge!  Math has become more complicated as we start learning how to multiply sevens.  We can sing the 7-14-21 jingle but are now learning to remember what each of the numbers represents. Please put a little extra time into memorizing the x 7s this week.   You can also help your students by pointing out equal groups as you come across them in your daily life.  The students have ventured into writing a two-point expository paragraph with great success.  We started a new chapter book: Patricia MacLachlan’s Newberry Medal winning book Sarah, Plain and Tall.  In history it has been fun to be Egyptologists and decipher hieroglyphics and learn the importance of the Middle Kingdom in Egypt in leaving records for future generations to learn about their culture.  
Memory Work: 
  • Hebrews 11 up to verse 22

 

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

This Week
  • Your students have now memorized 100 words in Latin. They can conjugate verbs, decline nouns, and translate Latin sentences.  We began multiplying using an algorithm that will come in handy as we continue to solve harder and bigger math problems. Using a variety of strategies to attack problems helps us to get faster in solving them. Students launched into writing using the Story Sequence Outline. We are discovering key story elements such as plot, character, setting, conflict, climax, and resolution.  As we continue to work on our writing skills, students will have the opportunity to demonstrate their mastery of  those skills taught by entering the Burlington Writer’s Contest next quarter. In grammar, we are exercising our editing skills to correct Friendly letters and sentences. And in science, we continue to explore God’s creation and the beauty it demonstrates of His character, logic, and order. Newton discovered three laws of motion that govern our world, but decoding gravity was only part of Newton’s contribution. His other major mathematical preoccupation was calculus. Students observed first hand through a series of experiments just how these laws work. They may even be inspired to try out a few at home! 

 

4th Grade (Mrs. Burtram and Miss Abrahamsen) 

This Week
  • Fourth grade hit the ground running after the Thanksgiving Break. Our reading in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe has brought us to the climactic point at which the White Witch and Aslan have made a pact which will save Edmund’s life. We have discussed at length what true obedience is and how obeying someone who is commanding you to sin is NOT true obedience. The famous Battle of Hastings has been our topic of discussion in history; we have also continued our studies in chemistry. In our math lessons, we are moving to higher level multiplication as we are now multiplying two and three digit numbers together. In grammar, we reviewed all different editing skills, and we will be working on applying these skills to our own writing assignments in the coming days.
  • Upcoming: Ephesians 4:1-6 (due 12/8); Medieval Feast Day- December 20

 

LOGIC SCHOOL

 

Mrs. Bennington

5th-6th Band
  • Students worked hard on preparing all of their Christmas Concert music this week. Practice Records are due Tuesday. 
7th-9th Band 
  • Students worked hard on preparing all of their Christmas Concert music this week. Practice Records are due Tuesday. 

Mrs. Campbell

5th-8th Chorus
  • Chorus students enjoyed time with performance vocalist Beth Gardner again this week!  She continued assisting in vocal technique as we worked on songs for the upcoming Christmas concert.  Practice records are due on Tuesday.

Mr. Webster

5th-8th Boys’ PE
  • This week the boys ran a mile and played basketball. 

Miss Stevenson

5th-8th Girls’ PE
  • Middle school girls played soccer this week in PE.

 

5th Grade (Mrs. Owens) 

This Week
  • We have had a fantastic week back after our Thanksgiving break.  We are continuing to progress through our History cards and this week we spent extra time on how to study and memorize the facts.  We also began to learn about The First Great Awakening and we studied and discussed Jonathan Edwards famous sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.”  We are nearing the end of Voyage to Freedom and will soon start our next book, “Witch of Blackbird Pond.”  In Math we have compared and simplified decimal numbers, divided a decimal number by a whole, and learned to write decimal numbers in expanded notation.   
Memory Work:
  • Isaiah 40: 5-6 (this week)
  • Isaiah 40: 7-8 (next week)
Upcoming:
  • Element Project due Wednesday, December 13th 

Mrs. Palmer

5th Art
  • Students began sketching a mixed media seasonal drawing.  We will be sketching, inking and painting these surprise drawings that will be sent home around the end of the quarter. 
Mrs. Kromhout
5th Latin
  • We reviewed the pluperfect tense, wrote stories with our Latin vocabulary, and took the chapter 9 test.  

 

6th Grade (Miss Stevenson)

6th Reading and Literature
  • We finished reading Across Five Aprils this week! For the rest of the quarter we will be reading A Christmas Carol. Since, for most of the students, it is their first exposure to Dickens, we will be reading it out-loud together in class. 
6th Grammar and Writing
  • This week in Grammar I handed out study sheets that will hopefully help the students prepare for a compare/contrast essay that we will begin toward the end of the third quarter. My hope is that they will start to develop good research habits and skills by the time they reach 9th grade. 
6th Bible
  • This week we finished up the gospel of Mark and started on Luke.
6th History
  • In History this week we learned about the battle of Gettysburg. 
6th Science
  • Students studied for and took a quiz on bacterial structure this week.
6th Logic
  • In Logic this week we discussed the Making Assumptions fallacies of circular reasoning and equivocation.

Mr. Hunter

6th Latin
  • In addition to reading from the Vulgate and learning about Suetonius, the students reviewed their vocabulary and the relative pronoun. They also learned about all four verb conjugations. 

Mrs. Frueh

6th Math
  • The concepts practiced this week included calculations with rates, powers of 10, and equivalent fractions, decimals and percents. We ended the week with a cumulative test.

Mrs. Palmer 

6th Art
  • Students began sketching a mixed media seasonal drawing.  We will be sketching, inking and painting these surprise drawings that will be sent home around the end of the quarter. 

Mrs. Crotts

7th Grammar and Writing
  • We spent class time reaffirming what constitutes a complete sentence (not just the presence of a subject and verb since those are found in dependent clauses as well); what is a thesis statement; and how to make transitions in an essay/paper.  The students shared their knowledge of informal and formal letters and segued  into how to write such in an email.
7th Omnibus
  • Literature: Students spent one class period reading further in C.S. Lewis’ Til We Have Faces.  We discussed themes: ” veil”, “die before dying”, and “no face to face until we have faces”.  Students will write an in-class short essay on one of these themes.
  • History: We visited the world of an archeologist and focused on the Hittites and how they copied Babylonian features which posed  challenges to archeologists. 
  • Bible/Theology: We tied in Til We Have Faces’ theological links–the veil can represent sin and the need to do admit to a person’s sin and the need for a Savior…

Mr. Johnston

7th Logic
  • 7th Grade completed our discussion on Chapter Two dealing with faulty appeals to emotion.  Review this with you kids and I think it will lead to many profitable discussions around the dinner table.  We will move on to Red Herrings next week.

 

Mrs. Frueh

7th Science
  • Our new unit of study is earthquakes and volcanoes. This week, we looked at where on Earth’s surface earthquakes are most likely to occur and what causes them. We have also recently discussed the engineering of buildings designed to withstand earthquakes and practiced building some ourselves with dry spaghetti noodles and marshmallows.
7th Pre-Algebra
  • The concepts practiced this week included calculations with percents, ratios, and proportions. We ended the week with a cumulative test.

Mrs. Palmer 

7th Art
  • Students worked this week on their charcoal architecture final drawings.  We began with placement and proportion and will aim to work on accuracy, gray scale and honing detail. 

Mr. Hunter

7th Latin
  • In addition to learning about Suetonius, the students reviewed this week’s vocabulary and the forms of third declension nouns. They read some lines from Sulpicia and Hildegard, as well as portions of Luke 2 in the Vulgate. 

 

Mrs. Kromhout

8th Omnibus
  • History: We spent some time this week discussing how to pull historical facts together to write an essay; the students will write an open-book in-class essay next week as practice! We also learned more about Charlemagne and his Carolingian world.
  • Literature: The students are having an excellent time reading further into Fellowship of the Ring!! We have learned the back story of the ring, 
  • Composition: Students are beginning to revise their essays as well as work on writing poems. 

Mr. Hunter

8th Latin
  • In addition to learning about Suetonius, the students reviewed this week’s vocabulary and the forms of third declension nouns. They read some lines from Sulpicia, Hildegard, and the Vulgate. 

Mrs. Frueh

8th Science
  • We have started our new topic of study: mechanics and motion theory. This week we learned the difference between scalar and vector measurements and practiced making calculations of distance, displacement and speed. The students have also chosen their groups for the self-propelled vehicle projects. The goal is to have a working prototype of a vehicle by December 15th. The vehicles will be raced in early January.
8th Algebra I
  • The concepts practiced this week included adding rational expressions without common denominators, using the power rule for exponents, and making conversions of volume. We ended the week with a review of graphing linear equations.

Mrs. Palmer 

8th Art
  • Students have been wrapping up several different projects this week.  Some students were finishing a charcoal landscape drawing while others worked on a literature-inspired drawing.  Many of these are already displayed at upper campus – check out their hard work if you get a chance!

Mr. Crotts

8th Logic
  • We are learning categorical statements, which are those that affirm or deny something about a given subject. These statements have quantity and quality, and can be affirmative or negative. We are also learning about contradictions, contrariety, subcontrariety, subimplication, and superimplication.

 

RHETORIC SCHOOL

 

From the COLLEGE COUNSELING Office:

Upcoming for 8th-12th: 
  • Bradford Alumni College Panel –  Wednesday, December 20th, 1:30-2:30pm
    • Several of our Bradford alumni (college freshman through seniors!) have graciously agreed to come back to Bradford to talk to our students about college life, their college experiences, and what they learned throughout the college search and application process! We are excited to have them back with us and to hear their wisdom.
Juniors:
  • All the juniors should have their PSAT scores now – if they have not seen them, let me know and I can help them to access their scores! 
  • In January and February we will plan to have SAT study sessions once a week in the afternoon to study for the SAT. 
  • I would also like to begin meeting individually with juniors throughout December and January to begin nailing down and planning next steps.
  • Also, as a reminder: 
    • Their PSAT score is an indication of how they might do on the SAT or ACT; they can look up colleges of interest and see how their scores compare to the average students accepted to that school
    • I recommend that all students take at least the SAT or ACT in March, though they could also take both tests
    • Taking the tests in March will give them time to evaluate where they are and make appropriate study goals for taking the test again either later in the spring or in August
    • The goal is to have a strong score in hand by October before they apply to colleges
      • Applying to many college’s scholarships requires applying to the college in October or November to qualify!
Seniors:
  • Now is the time to focus on applying for scholarships! Parents, you can be of help to your students by helping them to research scholarships that fit their qualifications. 
    •  College Essay Guy’s Scholarship Info – here is more detailed information and exercises for finding scholarships; he also has information about filling out the FAFSA and other financial matters
    •  Scholarship Tracker – students can make a copy and keep track of scholarships you have found and want to apply to on this document

 

Mrs. Palmer 

9th Spanish 
  • This week we have continued learning a variety of stem-changing verbs in the present tense.  We focused on both E:IE and O:UE verbs.  We continued on with new vocabulary and students took a quiz on Friday. 

Coach Johnston

9th History
  • This week, our class began to cover the debating, writing and more debating and ratification of the US Constitution. We have talked about a lot of important founding fathers who were/not there and what roles they played. We have also begun to talk through the major arguments that required a solution in order for the Constitution to come into existence.

Mrs. Frueh

9th Geometry
  • We have moved on from triangles to quadrilaterals. The focus this week was on parallelograms. We learned six different ways to prove that a given quadrilateral is indeed a parallelogram.
  • Students also started work on their bridge project. This project, which is being done in pairs, will allow students a chance to apply their knowledge of angles and geometric shapes to engineer a strong truss bridge.

Mr. Crotts

9th Logic
  • Our new unit of study moves from using truth tables to prove arguments as valid or invalid.
  • We are now learning to use formal proofs of validity to deduce an argument’s conclusion from its premise(s).

Mrs. Fairchild

9th Advanced Art
  • We have begun work a mini art mock trial.  This is a soft introduction to this process which will prepare them for their final major project at the end of the year.  They divided into teams and began researching the painting Las Meninas.  This painting includes a self-portrait of the artist while he is painting something on a large canvas.  The debate revolves around what is being painted on the canvas.  Is the artist painting a portrait of the princess who is standing front and center of the painting or is the artist painting a picture of the king and queen who are reflected in the mirror at the back of the painting.  Both teams have already discovered some very interesting facts about the painting and are preparing their opening statements and evidence for the trial.  

Mrs. Hicks

9th Biology
  • This week students completed presentations on their assigned parts of the cell! They did a wonderful job. We also completed a food lab where we constructed an animal cell out of various types of food.

Mrs. Crotts

9th Literature
  • We visited the Mebane Library to complete research on an author from modern history.  They learned about annotated bibliographies as well as filtering sources to determine if a source is accurate.

Dr. Byrd

9th-10th Bible Survey
  • This week we have been studying the book of Psalms. We have seen how the Lord has given us this book as a book of songs for worship. The Psalms also expresses various emotions to the Lord.
  • We are working on memorizing as a class Colossians 1. 

 

Dr. James

10th Chemistry
  • This week we reviewed Test 2 (chemical bonding), the students learned how to determine oxidation numbers for the atoms of various molecules, and we began an introduction to nomenclature.
  • Next week we will continue with chemical nomenclature, and the students will learn how to balance equations.

Mrs. Palmer 

10th Spanish
  • This week we learned a variety of irregular preterite verbs.   These verbs are tricky and require practice.  We also worked with reading and listening in the target language.  Students also took a vocabulary quiz. 

Mrs. Byrd

10th Algebra II
  • Topics for the week included: chemical mixture problems, metric to english unit conversions, and ideal gas law problems.  We also spent a class period working on a 2nd Quarter Project dealing with maximizing area and quadratic equations.

Mrs. Crotts

10th Literature
  • The students worked on final edits to their research paper, read the book of Psalm, and began writing a psalm.  They also concluded watching The Most Reluctant Convert in order to compare this documentary’s biographical presentation to their author research paper.  Next, time allowing, we will begin reading/discussions of Metamorphoses as a jump start on Ancient Roman literature.

Miss Oldham

10th Rhetoric I
  • Students worked on their research and annotated bibliographies this week. 

Coach Johnston

10th History
  • Students took their Unit 2 test on Ancient Israel, Phoenicia and Persia. We have begun to read and discuss the introductory overviews available in the appendices of our upcoming book The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides. We have briefly examined various Greek city-state governments, forms of education, military policies, and freedoms.
10th PE
  • Students spent two days enjoying the warm afternoon of brisk near-winter days outside playing basketball. 

Mrs. Byrd

11th Precalculus
  • We’re working through properties of logs, solving exponential and logarithmic equations, and various log and exponential models such as population growth, radioactive decay, and the richter scale
11th Physics
  • We’ve begun a new unit on work and energy.  Trying to define energy, discussing conservation of energy as well as how the “initial energy” in the universe came about made for some interesting discussion and points to a divine, supernatural creator.  Students also spent time working on their egg drop device prototypes.  We ended the week with a cumulative first semester test.

Miss Oldham

11th Literature
  • Students began Romeo and Juliet this week! 

Mr. Webster

11th History
  • This week we covered the lives of peasants and the nobility in the High Middle Ages, as well as the revival of trade in Western Europe. 

Mr. Hunter

11th NT Greek
  • The students reviewed the forms of the imperfect indicative and took a quiz on the imperfect and this week’s vocabulary. They also read portions of 1 John 1-2 and Luke 2. 

Mrs. Fairchild

11th Elective: Portfolio
  • We switched things up a bit this week since the class has recently had to miss a few opportunities to work on their projects due to Declamation and SATs.  The students kicked off their medieval embroidery project by studying Genesis 1-4 and selecting something from the passage of Scripture to create a design. Their medieval style of design is apparent in the symbolism and even in the way they have depicted the human form. We are eager to see the designs develop and to watch the different techniques they use to create texture.

 

Coach Johnston

11th-12th Elective: Military History
  • Students have been reading and discussing portions of EB Sledge’s book, With the Old Breed, a personal account of the USMC’s campaigns at Peleliu and Okinawa.

Mrs. Palmer

11th-12th Elective: Spanish 3 / ESL
  • Students worked on reviewing tricky verbs this week (“ll” and “p” verbs).  We worked particularly on listening and speaking skills in the target language this week.  Students also took a vocabulary quiz.

Dr. Smith

11th-12th Apologetics & Philosophy
  • This week we have been focusing on a Christian view of knowledge. In particular, we have looked at the seven aspects of everyone’s theory of knowledge, and how only biblical Christianity can account for all seven, while all non-Christian views can only account for six of the seven. Ask your son and/or daughter if they can name all seven and explain which biblical doctrine gives Christianity the only credible basis upon which we can claim to know anything. 

Coach Johnston

12th History
  • This week, our seniors took their unit test on the American Revolution. We will begin a brief survey of major events that will not fit within one specific unit but are necessary background for understanding future material (and some application to current events.

Miss Oldham

12th Literature
  • Students read excerpts of Walden by Thoreau. Next week: The Importance of Being Earnest! 
12th Rhetoric II
  • Students got their theses back and met with Dr. Smith and Mr. Johnston. They also got verses to memorize for a Christmas recitation! I will be sending out an email with more information if you would like to come. 

Mrs. Byrd

12th Calculus
  • The main topic of the week has been using the derivative to locate the extrema of a function as well as to identify where a function is increasing and decreasing.  We’ve covered the extreme value theorem, global and relative maximums and minimums, the first derivative test, and the candidates test to locate absolute extrema.

Mrs. Hicks

12th Anatomy
  • This week students completed presentations on their assigned blood components. They did a wonderful job. We also completed a lab about blood typing!