Four-Year History Cycle
Our curriculum revolves around a four-year historical schema that serves as our chief organizing principle in offering a truly integrated and coherent curriculum. In the course of grades one to twelve, students would repeat this cycle three times (i.e., grades 1-4, 5-8, 9-12). The four year cycle is as follows:
1. Old Testament and Ancient Times 5000 B.C.-A.D.
2. New Testament through Medieval Times A.D. 1-1500
3. Reformation and Early Modern A.D. 1500-1850
4. Modern Age A.D. 1850-Present
This four-year historical cycle serves as the "hub" of the curriculum, and other subjects take this schema as their organizing principle. Thus, when studying the ancients students learn the historical events of the Egyptian, Old Testament, Greek and Roman worlds, the central literature of the time--for example the Bible and Homer, and key philosophical figures, such as Plato and Aristotle.