Students continue refining their craft through weekly writing in many forms—creative pieces, poetry, essays— as well through the completion of three research papers—president, state, and topic of choice. Regular practice strengthens both structure and imagination, while lessons build steadily toward independence in editing, research, vocabulary, and stylistic control. Many assignments draw from history and science, allowing students to explore the ideas they study through the music of language. As expression and understanding begin to intertwine, writing becomes an act of order and insight—a reflection of God’s beauty shaped in words.

Texts & Resources: Andrew Pudewa’s Teaching Structure & Style, student selected research texts

Using Shurley English Level 7, students review foundational grammar and advance toward more complex structures that prepare them for the Dialectic years ahead. Weekly at-home lessons pair with classroom reinforcement through recitation, analysis, and discussion. Grammar becomes less a set of rules and more an architecture of thought—revealing how sound language builds sound reasoning. Quarterly exams offer moments to measure progress and celebrate mastery as students move toward maturity in communication.

Texts & Resources: Shurley English Level 7

With Veritas Press History Cards: 1815 to the Present as their compass, students navigate the major events that shaped the modern world—from industrial innovation to exploration, reform, and global conflict. Maps, readings, dramatizations, and hands-on projects invite them to see history as a living narrative threaded with God’s providence. Through creative reenactments, famous speeches, and geography challenges, they cultivate both memory and meaning—discovering how every era carries forward the story of His faithfulness.

Texts & Resources: Veritas Press History Cards: 1815 to the Present; A History of US volumes 4-10; Soft Rain; By the Great Horn Spoon; Bull Run; A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt; and Finding Langston.  

Students explore the hidden structure of creation through the study of chemistry, discovering the elegance of atoms, molecules, and matter. Using God’s Design for Chemistry & Ecology, they learn that every reaction and element reflects divine order. Experiments and collaborative projects invite curiosity, precision, and awe, while preparation for the ACTS STEM Fair channels observation into discovery. Through these explorations, the material world becomes a hymn of design—its smallest parts resonating with purpose and praise. 

Texts & Resources: God’s Design Series: Properties of Atoms and Molecules and Properties of Matter

Students embark on Wheelock’s Latin, moving through the first twelve chapters with growing confidence in translation, syntax, and vocabulary. Lessons draw connections between Latin and English, illuminating how structure gives rise to meaning. Chants, parsing, and exercises cultivate fluency and joy in discovery, while preparation for the National Latin Exam offers both challenge and reward. As language becomes logic made luminous, students sense that disciplined study is itself a form of praise—the mind delighting in the order of truth.

Texts & Resources: Wheelock’s Latin