What a rigorous curriculum says about Christ
At Beacon Hill, we believe children can learn. Some will exceed others in intellect and wisdom. Some will struggle in profound, even disheartening, ways, but we are not discouraged. The Risen Christ gives us encouragement. Human nature is intellectually broken, but Christ is able, in the words of John Milton, to repair the ruins of our first parents. We set our standards high, therefore, as an acknowledgement of Christ’s power. He is an effective teacher, he makes discipleship effective, and we should expect all Christian students to learn well on account of him.
A Top-Down Approach
Most people looking at the curriculum on this website will be interested in the Grammar School. I would encourage you, however, to first consider the Rhetoric School curriculum. We designed our curriculum with the end in mind. What do we want our graduates to be like, to be able to do? The Logic and Grammar curricula are then the steps we believe will lead us to those goals.
Our Vision of a Beacon Hill Graduate
- covenantally faithful and involved in their local church
- knowledgeable of the whole Bible, and desirous to obey every word
- competent and confident to sing unto the Lord
- having as their highest aim to serve the Lord and their fellow man
- regular in prayer
- able to effectively communicate their beliefs and ideas through various methods and media, both oral and written
- inquisitive regarding nature, and skillful in the the scientific method
- knowledgeable of the scope of history, from creation to the present, and able to explain how Christ is at the center of the story, and also their own place in the story
- able to form and analyze a wide range of arguments, able to recognize logical fallacies
- able to read very difficult literature with profit and enjoyment
- able to tackle complex real-world problems using Algebra, geometry, and statistics
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Plans for Rhetoric School Curriculum (9-12)
Logic School Curriculum (7-8)
