Course of Study


  • The Trinity Rhetoric School academic program combines the best of Christian thinking with the best of the classical tradition to cultivate thoughtful, perceptive leaders.

  • The academic program provides students with a strong base for selective college admission.

  • The academic program provides students with a wide base of knowledge built around the classical distinctives of classical language, literature, mathematics, natural sciences and the classical language arts.


 

“ADVANCED”
Scope and Sequence 2008-2012

   

  HUMANITIES CORE
(History, Literature, Poetry, Politics, Philosophy)  
MATH SCIENCE FOREIGN LANGUAGE LIBERAL
ARTS
FINE ARTS
 8 credits
required
3 credits required  3 credits required 3 credits
required
 4 credits required 2 credits required
9Classical Gospels, Minor Prophets Alg 1/
Geometry
Biology   Latin 2/
Spanish I
English Composition Elective
             
10Medieval Major Prophets, NT Geometry/
Alg 2
Chemistry Latin 3/
Spanish II
Advanced Argumentation Elective
11British/
European
Pauline,
Wisdom Lit
Alg 2/
Pre-calculus 
Anatomy/ Physics Latin IV/ Spanish III Rhetoric I: Speech
†AP Language
Elective
12American/
†AP Lit
Apologetics Capstone


Rhetoric: Thesis Elective
   
*Phys Ed credits earned through participation in interscholastic sports or equivalent at ¼ credit per season
†Honors courses receive a 1 point GPA bonus for passing grades.



“DISTINGUISHED”

Scope and Sequence 2008-2012
   

  HUMANITIES CORE
(History, Literature, Poetry, Politics, Philosophy)  
MATH SCIENCE FOREIGN LANGUAGE LIBERAL
ARTS
FINE ARTS
 8 credits
required
4 credits required  4 credits required 4 credits
required
 4 credits required 2 credits required
9Classical Gospels, Minor Prophets Alg 1/
Geometry
Biology   Latin 2
English Composition  Elective
             
10Medieval Major Prophets, NT Geometry/
Alg 2
Chemistry Latin 3
Advanced Argumentation Elective
11British/
European
Pauline,
Wisdom Lit
Alg 2/
Pre-calculus 
Anatomy/ Physics/
†AP Science Electives
†AP Latin IV Rhetoric I: Speech
†AP Language
Elective
12American/
†AP Lit
Apologetics Capstone Pre-calculus/
†AP Calculus

†AP Latin V Rhetoric: Thesis Elective
   
*Phys Ed credits earned through participation in interscholastic sports or equivalent at ¼ credit per season
†Honors courses receive a 1 point GPA bonus for passing grades.