High School Academics - Lake Pointe Academy

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Lower classical levels prepare for this “big stage”

Having been thoroughly trained in the basic academic skills in the junior high years, students engage new, expansive knowledge in deeper ways in senior high school.

Much as junior varsity athletes are expected to “raise their game” at the varsity level's demand of complexity and speed, high school pupils exercise daily to handle greater quantities and qualities of academic material efficiently and with increasing proficiency and eloquence.
This is the Rhetorical stage, and it is a process.
Hallmarks of this stage include mature student preparation, class discussion and engagement, and presentation and response.
By honing more mature academic and communication skills in all subjects, students are prepared for college, including the Dual Enrollment courses that begin in 11th and 12th grades.
The SHALOM liberal arts program exposes students to Science, History, Arts, Languages, Orthodox Christian ministry prep, and Math
English and History are integrated by overlapping content, and other courses are integrated by content, expected skills, and approaches wherever possible.

English curriculum

In high school English, students engage time-honored literature, while they learn to respond to its worthy questions in composition, discussion, and analysis.
Pupils examine the "great ideas and issues" faced by mankind throughout history using the medium of enduring classic prose and poetry, through the lens of a Biblical worldview.
Each year students will read several whole books and works in a variety of genres: novels, plays, short stories, poems, essays and speeches.
Pupils in 9th and 10th grades engage the subject of rhetoric, using the Lost Tools of Writing curriculum. They further develop their composition and communication skills through annual debates and research paper units.
Grammar learned in junior high is exercised in weekly practice, along with being taught to the point of need through composition.
While time-honored and critically acclaimed reading material does not always reflect Biblical principles, the academy studies these selections -- examined and approached within strategic protective boundaries — to ensure students have a thorough understanding of history, culture, and the nature of man.