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Secondary Class Descriptions

We have many class choices for our Secondary students (11 and up) including Biblical World View, Flags, Art, Veritas Praise, PE, Spanish, Home Ec and many more! Classes do vary some depending on the semester and teachers.

Art - Masters of Art

Masters of Art What is Art? There is no one universal definition of visual art though there is a consensus that art is the conscious creation of something beautiful or meaningful using skill and imagination. Art is everywhere - in the sky, in the trees, at the grocery store, at the lake. You get it. It's all around. In this Art class, we go beyond art technique. We learn about various artists and make our own imaginative spins on their famous artworks. We learn about mediums beyond pencil and paper from clay to watercolor to resists to using pieces from nature. We focus greatly on a student's imagination and creativity to see where that leads him or her.

Biblical Worldview

Biblical Worldview is a required class for all secondary students. The class will open with prayer, receive a Biblical lesson then break into small groups for discussion. Time and discussion will be spent practicing the use of Biblical scriptures and biblical reference tools to find and record Truth to combat lies in our sight, thoughts, speech, counsel, and actions.  Classes will often alternate with a lesson week and an application week.  Lesson weeks will focus on learning and finding Scripture related to what is true. Application weeks will consist of students sharing scripture and the experience of applying what they learned from the prior lesson. 
CLASS REQUIREMENTS:

  • Students must bring their own Bible. (If you don’t have a Bible please contact Virginia and we will get you one to keep.) 

  • Students must bring writing tools for their journals. (colored pens & pencils are acceptable.)

  • Students are highly encouraged to bring highlighters and other supplies for studying and marking in your Bible or journal. 

  • Students must write at least ONE bible verse in their journal. (If you or your child is concerned about writing ability, a simple reference or drawing is acceptable.)

  • Students are highly encouraged to share prayer requests, struggles they may be dealing with in culture or how they would like the class to find truth with Scripture. 

  • Students will work in teams/groups and will rotate sharing with the class their findings. 

Biology

In this class, students will be dissecting 9 different animals throughout the semester. Each week we will examine a different species. Including fetal pig, grass frog, earthworm, lubber grasshopper, crayfish, clam, perch, starfish, and grantia (sponge).  Participation from each student is required. 

Board Games and More!

This fun class will give students time to play games and socialize!  (You MUST participate in games or other class approved activities!)

Requirements:

  • Have Fun

  • Play Games

  • Socialize

Career Exploration

Career exploration is a process that helps students learn about work opportunities and how to pursue their desired careers. It can involve researching, evaluating, and learning about different jobs, both locally and internationally. It can also include learning about yourself, trying new experiences, and creating a plan to achieve your goals. Career exploration can help students understand their options and choose a fulfilling career, which is why many schools consider it an important part of their curriculum.

Casual Debate

Join Mr. Brandon Reed as we go through the basics of debate and discuss various topics and have a few debates ourselves.

Cheerleading

A basic introduction to competitive cheerleading. Cheerleaders will learn a short routine and perform at our Fall and Spring performances. This will include cheers, a dance, jumps, and group stunting. Cheerleaders will need to purchase black leggings and a Veritas Cheer T-shirt. Medical release forms are required.

Comedy Improv

Come be funny with Liz Peak!

Comedy Sketch Writing

Sketch comedy writing students will write short, funny scenes, called "sketches.” A sketch is usually between one and ten minutes long and performed by a group. Students will be writing short sketches both on their own and as a group. At the end of the semester, there will be an opportunity for students to perform some of the sketches they have written.

Computer Programming

More details coming soon!

Cooking

Cooking for yourself, (and later for friends and family) is a wonderful gift. We all love that friends or family member who can whip up a quick delicious meal, or bake something for a birthday. We will explore basic skills in the kitchen. Cleanliness and food safety. Food preparation. Using spices to enhance flavor. Knife and kitchen safety. We will be mixing, blending, chopping, dicing, dredging, frying and baking. We will also cover meal planning and budgeting to prepare students to budget their grocery expenses. We will cover seasonal dishes as fresh foods change in the season and how to prepare what is available locally. Cooking is a social skill with lots of sharing, laughing, and working together as you learn how to enjoy cooking together.

Creative Creations

This class will bring creativity to the forefront with unique creations from everyday scraps of junk. From bolts, aluminum foil and anything lying around the house to pieces of art!

Dance

Dance is more than just movements. Dancing tells a story. It is fueled by emotion. It’s a process of feeling and moving through that feeling. It lets you express whatever you’re going through by dancing your heart out and glorifying God. This fun, energetic, and unique class will be taught by TBD. Male dancers would be greatly appreciated and will more than likely receive a featured part in the program. This class requires practice outside of class time.

Performance-based class requires:

  • Regular Attendance.

  • Students must participate in class with a good attitude and readiness to learn. 

  • Practice at home is required.

Drawing

This course is designed for beginner artists who have an interest in learning how to draw or sketch -- or simply want to improve their skills. It covers the tools you'll need to draw and also provide plenty of exercises to practice drawing using different techniques and styles. It will cover drawing people, places, things, and even abstract concepts.

Embroidery & Civic Conversations

This class will be interactive and activity-based. Participation is mandatory. 
My grandmother taught me how to embroider when I was five years old and I've loved it ever since. My skills are traditional, but I try adding a new stitch to my repertoire now and then. I'm just so inspired by all the new embroidery trends out there! Our class will focus on learning the embroidery basics with a new stitch each week. Students will be in groups and responsible for bringing an assigned, informed topic of discussion to class each week. Topics will range from the Bible, World Events, Pop Culture, Weather, Politics, etc. The students will be responsible for introducing their prepared, informed topic to their group and responding to each other while practicing their new stitch. This is not a labor-intensive study/report. We will be learning the art of embroidery and civic conversation.

Etiquette 101

Etiquette classes can cover a variety of topics, including manners, communication, and social graces. The goal of etiquette classes is to help people learn how to behave in a polite society and have positive interactions with others. Here are some examples of what students might learn in etiquette classes:

  • Manners: How to use a napkin, set a table, and avoid chewing with your mouth open

  • Communication: How to make a good first impression, have polite conversations, and avoid using filler words, how and when to use a cell phone. How to make a phone call. 

  • Social graces: How to greet people, make introductions, and show proper body language

  • Compassion: How to share, avoid hurting others' feelings, and show kindness

  • Workplace etiquette: How to define proper correspondence, answer the phone politely, and follow workplace rules

Graphic Design

Intro to Graphic Arts Have you ever seen catchy artwork anywhere? Maybe it was in advertising, your favorite CD, your favorite movie poster, brochure, etc. Stepping into the world of graphic arts starts with the basics. That’s where we will focus on apps such as Canva, PosterMyWall, Adobe Express, etc. (Student may need to provide their own laptop and have access to download free apps.)

Junk Journaling

Have you heard of Wreck This Journal, Mixed Media Art, or Junk Journaling? Whatever your answer, this class is for you! We will focus on putting together a keepsake journal that revolves around you. This is for life events, your favorite things, journaling, letting off steam, your favorite Bible verses - anything that makes you - YOU! You can make this a beautiful work of art or chaos. It’s your choice!

Kitchen Chemistry

More details coming soon!

Nature Journaling

This class will challenge students to a unique combination of nature drawing and journaling. We will observe through the outdoors, pictures and videos in class of nature’s wonders. We can learn a ton of insights on studying nature and keeping an art journal with patience and practice.

PE

Middle & High School PE: We will practice a variety of sports with the goal of gaining fitness, learning new skills, and having a lot of fun with your classmates. The class rotates through both team and individual sports. Fall classes will include Dodgeball, Jump rope, and Futsol (indoor soccer).

Quiz Bowl

Quiz Bowl returns! A class favorite that quizzes students on facts, trivia, and science! Test your knowledge and have fun competing with classmates!

Revolution Flags

Revolution Flags is a student favorite and this class will strive to challenge and encourage your student to use their gifting to Honor the Lord. Learning Flags techniques can be demanding as it will build muscle strength and take discipline. Equally, it is fun to work as a team and exhilarating once you have picked up the techniques.

 

Performance-based class requires:

  • THIS IS A PERFORMANCE-BASED CLASS. IF YOUR CHILD/CHILDREN WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ATTEND THE PERFORMANCE PLEASE NOTIFY THE TEACHER ASAP. (This is important because of the choreography that takes place inside the classroom for the end-of-semester performance. Last-minute changes can be difficult and stressful on the students and teachers.)

  • Students must have their own Flags. (You may rent or purchase your students' flags. If you purchase you may choose your flag color. If you rent your student will be given colors that are available.) 

  • Students must return rental flags at the end of each semester. (No exceptions)

  • Students must bring their flags each week to class. (We do not have extras if your student forgets. They may not be able to practice if they forget to bring them.)

  • Students are highly recommended to purchase a “Flag Team Shirt”. (If this isn’t applicable to your student, they need to wear a dark gray shirt for the performance.)

  • Students must practice at home. (Instruction videos are on our Facebook page and website.)

  • Students must be willing to listen and learn the movements. (We ask that all students bring their best attitude to class.

Robotics

Robotics is an interdisciplinary branch of computer science and engineering. Robotics involves design, construction, operation, and use of robots.

Spanish I

This course introduces students to effective strategies for beginning Spanish language learning, and to various aspects of Spanish speaking culture. This course encourages interpersonal communication through speaking and writing, providing opportunities to make and respond to basic requests and questions, to understand and use appropriate greetings and forms of address, to participate in brief guided conversations on familiar topics, and to write short passages with guidance.

Stop Motion

What is Stop-Motion?
A kind of animation using individual photographs that create motion by taking and framing the photos together through video. Still pictures are pieced together and flipped through rapidly to give the illusion of a movement or time passing, which creates a movie. 
Class Purpose: Choose a Biblical story to make a movie about.

Survival / Foraging

This class will be a fun, exciting hands-on class for anyone. Survival skills build personal confidence and comfort with God’s created world. There’s something a little odd about an animal that relies on gadgets, machines, and a thing called money in order to stay alive. That’s us – the human race. Most of us no longer know how to spend a comfortable night or two in the woods, let alone provide for our own long-term needs directly from what God has provided through creation. Survival skills are what you need to know in order to take care of yourself and prosper in a wilderness or emergency situation. They include both intellectual knowledge like edible wild plant identification and concrete, and hands-on techniques like how to make rope. Some survival skills are ancient and traditional 

know-how that our ancestors developed before the advent of modern conveniences; others involve the use of human-made materials and contemporary approaches.

 

 This class will include:

• Finding water

• Making a water filter

• Building a fire

• Finding shelter

• Medicinal plants

• Making rope

• Tie multiple knots

• Trapping

• Fishing

• Poisonous plants and berries to avoid 

• Safe foods to find in different terrains 

• Making a compass

• Navigation using stars

 

I have a passion for natural healing so in each week we will also learn how to reprogram our bodies to rely on what God has already provided for us to stay healthy. We will learn what plants can be used to heal.

I was a Girl Scout (when that was still considered a good thing) and my husband was an Eagle Scout so I will glean from his wisdom shared with me and I believe this will be a very enlightening class.

The New Testament

A group study on the New Testament. Join Mr Reed in class as we read and discuss the book of Mathew along with personal testimonies and experiences with God as we draw closer to him in communion. Brandon has a love of the word and will read through parts of the New Testament with students and have weekly discussions on scriptural text.

Veritas Praise

Veritas Praise is an advanced class for students who are experienced in music and/or leading worship. Every student involved will be required to participate. We take our time in worship seriously and this class is about bringing your best to God. There will not be any time or tolerance for goofing off, non-participation, or unpreparedness. If at any time this becomes a problem and a distraction to the class, students will be asked to leave the class and find another class option for the remainder of the semester. We truly only want students who are passionate about Glorifying God through their songs and music. 

 

WE ARE NOT A PERFORMANCE CLASS BUT THERE ARE REQUIREMENTS:

  • Students must have their own instruments. 

  • Students must bring their instruments each week to class and the necessary supplies needed to play instruments. (amps, chords, pedals etc.)

  • Students must already know how to play their instruments well enough to be able to learn songs weekly and independently. (The teacher is not teaching students HOW to play the instrument.)

  • Students must be able to play within a group/band setting. (this is why bringing your items to class every week is vital!! If one person forgets, it affects the whole group!) 

  • Students will need 1” binder, pencil with erasers, and highlighter.

Website Design

More details coming soon!

Worshiping Hands

Worshiping Hands is a class that equips kids with a new way to Worship the Lord and communicate through American Sign Language. They will learn a song that will be performed at the end of the Semester performance. Additionally, they will learn basic conversational ASL. In 1 Corinthians 9:16-23 Paul explains that he has, "Become all things, to all people" so that the gospel might be proclaimed. The goal in class is to equip your children with a useful skill that is versatile and can be used to Glorify God.

Performance-based class requires:

  • Regular Attendance.

  • Students will need a solid black shirt for performance.

  • Students must participate in class with a good attitude and readiness to learn. 

  • Practice at home is required.

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