Grade 11

About the Eleventh Grade Program

Parents will need to complete all sections of the Admission Application and submit the application fee. Our Admissions Staff will call to schedule a school tour. We have very small class sizes so your child will have the attention he or she needs to excel.

Tuition & Fees:

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Curriculum

Bible 11: Understanding the Times I: 1 Credit
To prepare students for adulthood in the world and to prepare their minds for Christian thinking, students learn the Philosophy, Ethics, Biology, and Psychology for Christian Theology, Islamic Theology, Secular Humanistic Theology, Marxist-­‐Leninist Theology, Cosmic Humanist Theology, and Postmodern Theology. Students will be convinced and convicted that the biblical approach to life is the absolute truth.

History 11: US History
Uncover the history of our nation through this comprehensive survey. The book focuses on the causes of events, the strains on the Union, and the underlying issues that have shaped United States history, from the age of exploration through the Obama administration.

English 11: Writing and Grammar
The eight parts of Speech are taught, verbal phrases, clauses, usage, and mechanics. Review the seven sentence patterns and introduce advanced concepts such as tense sequence, perfect verbals, and adverbial nouns. Reference chapters include library skills and study skills. Students are led through the writing process and teach writing strategies such as variety, emphasis, and sentence logic. Writing projects include a research paper, a literary analysis, a folktale, a narrative poem, a hymn, an analytical essay, an interview, a memoir, an analogy, an in-class essay, and a letter to the editor.

Honors Science 11: Advanced Chemistry
The course includes detailed discussions of stoichiometry (with limiting reactants), thermodynamics, kinetics, acids and bases, redox reactions, solutions, atomic structure, orbital hybridization, molecular orbitals, molecular geometry, chemical equilibrium, and nuclear chemistry. Also, students will receive an introduction to organic chemistry, focusing on major functional groups, organic nomenclature, and polymer chemistry. Apologia Educational Ministries.

Honors History 11: Advanced US History
Completing Omnibus III will provide the student a full credit in Modern US and British History I, Doctrine and Theology III, and Modern US and British Literature I. Combining these disciplines will have students grow in their appreciation of the unity of all knowledge, and all the material is taught through a biblical worldview.

Literature 11: Rhetoric
Ancient rhetorics for contemporary students blends the strategies of ancient Greek and Roman rhetoricians with the contemporary writers for a classical delivery.

English 11: Vocabulary Option
Introduced are some of the ways English acquires words—such as allusions, coining, back-formation, folk etymology, and borrowing from other languages.

Upper School Math Requirements

Algebra I Part II
Students complete Algebra I by studying polynomials, rational expressions, radicals, and solving rationals. A look at probability, statistics, and scriptural connections are integrated.

Algebra Functions and Data Analysis
Basic functions of algebra, graphing, and solving equations are explored coupled with statistics and analysis.

Algebra II
Review basic algebraic functions and extend each student’s skills in graphing and in solving equations. Introduce exponential functions, logarithms, and trigonometry. Present more advanced topics such as complex numbers, rational expressions and equations, conic sections, probability, and statistics. A matrix algebra feature, Algebra Around the World, Algebra and Scripture, dominion modeling activities for graphing calculators, and biographical sketches of mathematicians are included throughout.

Geometry
Students are introduced to a balanced study of proofs, theorems, and real-life geometry. Included are area, volume, congruence, similarity, space, transformations, constructions, and trigonometry. The book contains analytic geometry features, Geometry Around Us, Geometry and Scripture, and biographical sketches of mathematicians.

Pre-Calculus
Lessons emphasize functions, graphing, and trigonometry and introduce differential calculus. Math Around the World, biographical sketches of mathematicians, an approximation methods feature, Math and Scripture, and dominion modeling activities for graphing calculators are also included.

Calculus
Students are motivated while fostering understanding and mastery. This brief text emphasizes integrated and engaging applications that show students the real-world relevance of topics and concepts including functions, graphs, limits, differentiation, application of the derivative, exponential and logarithmic functions, integration and its applications, and functions of variables.

Upper School Physical Education Requirements

Physical Education

P.E. and Health are a combined course: 1 Credit
The course consists of strength and conditioning exercises along with physical agility, team work games, survey of multiple sports and rules of the game, and presidential physical fitness exams.

Health:
First Aid, CPR, AED training with certification plus infant CPR. This all‐inclusive course covers all topics necessary for certification. Staywell Company or Family Life Skills.
Health also includes anatomy and physiology as it relates to good health and sport activity including exercising, body mass index, food intake and processing, and training.

Admissions Contacts

Ruby DeCastro-Brown
(757) 502-4507

School Hours

7:00 am–5:30 pm

Discounts

Military and First Responder Discount: Active duty military and first responder families will receive a 5% discount on the yearly tuition.
**Fees are not included. Fees are additional. Only one discount per family will apply.

Grading Scale

A+ 99-100 G.P.A. 4.0
A 96-98 3.8
A- 94-95 3.6
B+ 91-93 3.3
B 88-90 3.1
B- 85-87 2.9
C+ 82-84 2.6
C 79-81 2.3
C- 77-78 2
D+ 74-76 1.3
D 70-73 1
F 0-69 0

Weighted GPA of 0.5 will be added for advanced courses, e.g., dual enrollment, AP, and Honors.

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