This school year was our family’s 17th as a homeschooling family, and to tell the truth, in years 15 and 16 I struggled with burnout. If the Lord blesses us to homeschool all of our children through to high school graduation, we’ll go for 31 consecutive years; I guess it’s no wonder I hit a hump in the middle of the journey. 🙂

Last year we discovered Classical Conversations, and joined a new location; our whole family is hooked. Classical Conversations (CC) is a one-day-per-week classical model program for homeschoolers in grades K-4 through 12, with classes tutored by CC-trained parents. Next year I will tutor Challenge II, a high school class.

HSLDA (Home School Legal Defense Association) has deemed CC High School “a complete curriculum.”

Here is some more information about the Challenge Program for middle and high school:

Challenge levels offer rigorous college prep work including:

  • American Lit
  • British Lit
  • Ancient Lit
  • Latin
  • American History
  • World History
  • Logic
  • Drama
  • Free Market Economics
  • American Government – including a study of 44 articles, speeches, poems, and legal documents that shaped American government
  • Philosophy
  • Art and Music History through Western Cultural History
  • Poetry and Shakespeare
  • Spanish
  • Apologia Science
  • Saxon math
  • Debate

How is CC different from all other High School options?

Integrated ideas:  Subjects are not taught in isolation. For example, math finds its application and climax in the sciences; similarly literature analysis cannot be separated from philosophy, theology, and history.

Parents retain primary roles of teaching and recording students’ progress.

Accountability and community motivates and encourages students to complete assignments on time and with excellence.

Knowing God and making Him known is the focus of all learning, giving students an impenetrable foundation of biblical truths.  The following resources are used throughout the Challenge program to strengthen students’ knowledge, argue and defend their point of view, and cultivate wisdom and virtue in their lives:  Don’t Check Your Brains at the Door, It Couldn’t Just Happen, Defeating Darwinism, How Should We Then Live?, The Consequences of Ideas, Mere Christianity, Jesus Among Other Gods, and A House for My Name, to name a few. Students are trained to process knowledge in order to see how it glorifies the Lord while also revealing aspects of His divine nature.

High School courses flow nicely into a transcript with more than enough credit hours for graduation. AcademicRecords.net is also offered for a professionally formatted student record.

Please contact Dana Sutko at dsutko AT gmail DOT com for more information about our Classical Conversations community, which meets on Tuesdays at Grace Chapel Church of Christ in Cumming, GA. We currently have openings in Challenge A, B, I, and II (approximately grades 7-10); Essentials (4th-6th grade grammar and writing course); and a waiting list for Foundations (K-4 through 6th grade).

This week I’m attending the free parent practicum (events to help equip parents and tutors for teaching) in Norcross, GA. I was pretty excited on Monday morning when another attendee on the row in front of me held up her phone and showed me the post of mine she’d just received there. Email subscribers are pretty special, so that was exciting for me. 🙂

Here are tutors and parents from this week’s practicum:

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