Curriculum
Our team represents decades of collective experience of classical Christian education, particularly in a home-education setting. We’ve chosen curriculum from various publishers that we believe represents some of the best of the best of classical Christian education and will help cultivate wisdom and virtue in your student.
Curriculum Overview
Distinguishing features of our curriculum include:
- Comprehensive liberal arts and sciences curriculum, covering history, geography, literature, science, math, English grammar, spelling, writing, Latin, and the arts
- Acknowledgment in all disciplines of Christ as creator, sustainer, and redeemer
- Integration across grade levels, where possible, to enrich and streamline at-home days, and foster a lifestyle of learning in your home
- Extensive curated memory work, including:
- Weekly catechism questions, answers, and proof verses
- Monthly and quarterly hymns
- Lengthy Scripture passages & poetry
- Subject-specific memory work
- Systematic training in developing virtue by cultivating good habits and character traits based on our propriety Habits & Virtues Framework
- Humanities (Bible, Geography, History, Literature) - Tapestry of Grace; Veritas Press (History Timeline)
- Language Arts
- Composition - Tapestry of Grace Writing Aids (Grade 3); Classical Copybooks (Memoria Press)
- English Grammar - Shurley Grammar
- Handwriting - Handwriting Without Tears
- Phonics, Spelling, Reading - Spell to Write and Read
- Supplemental Reading Material - All About Reading (readers); custom literature lists
- Latin - Song School Latin (Grades 1 & 2); Latin for Children (Grades 3-5)
- Mathematics - Dimensions Math (Singapore Math)
- Science - Elemental Science for the Grammar Stage
- Enrichments
- Art Appreciation - Simply Charlotte Mason Picture Study (Grades K-2); Veritas Press History of Art (Grades 3-6)
- Art Technique - Weekly Classes
- Music Appreciation - Simply Charlotte Mason Composer Study
- Music Technique - Weekly Classes
See for Yourself
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Grammar School Cycles: Humanities and Science
Following a kindergarten year in which students are introduced to the entire story of history and a range of scientific disciplines, all of our Knox Classical students hop aboard our current year of a four-year cycle studying the humanities (including Bible, history, literature, and science) and science. While the rigor and focus of these studies varies based on whether a student is at the grammar, logic, or rhetoric stage of his or her education, this four-year-cycle approach means that, Lord willing, students will revisit historical time periods and scientific disciplines three times over the course of their first through twelfth grade education.
Organizing all of our students’ humanities and science studies based on this cycle offers a couple of rich benefits. First, as explained and recommended in the Well-Trained Mind by Susan Wise Bauer and Jessie Bauer, aligning the study of scientific disciplines with the approximate times they arose during history gives students the foundation to recognize connections between historical events and the advancement of science. This also means that, unlike most modern educational methods that teach history in detached units (e.g., a year of American history, followed by a foray into ancient history, and then a stint on the peoples native to North and South America), our students will understand history as a cohesive whole.
Second, integrating humanities & science studies across grade levels furthers our mission as a collaborative school by streamlining home days and ensuring that siblings can learn together. And even during on-campus days, integrating our studies provides the opportunity to mix ages and grade levels for certain projects or demonstrations—and also gives our students a sense of community as they all learn about the same things at the same time.
We’re starting our four-year cycle in the 2024—2025 school year with “Year 1” and progressing to Year 2 in 2025—2026, Year 3 in 2026—2027, and so forth, before going back to Year 1 for another, deeper round of study.
Humanities (Tapestry of Grace + Veritas Press Timeline) & Science (Elemental Science) Cycles
| Kindergarten | Year 1 (2024-2025) | Year 2 (2025-2026) | Year 3 (2026-2027) | Year 4 (2027-2028) | |
| Humanities | Primer (Creation - Modern America Today) | The History of Redemption: The Books of Moses - Western Rome Falls | Between Ancient and Modern: The Middle Ages - Age of Revolutions | The Nineteenth Century: Napoleon's World - The Gilded Age | The Twentieth Century: Darn of the Twentieth Century - The Postmodern World |
| Science | Intro to Science | Biology | Earth Science | Chemistry | Physics |
