Chrysostom ACADEMY
Upper SchoolClassical Upper School Approach
Classical Upper School education continues to return to the ancient goal of education: teaching children to think and learn for themselves by imparting to them the tools of learning. The goal is to promote the type of inquiry that ultimately allows students to discover for themselves that which is true and beautiful.
Our curriculum is vigorous, and seeks to serve our students as they discover their purpose and abilities after graduation. Upper School students are supported as they decide to continue their education in a college or technical undergraduate environment or take the path of work or entrepreneurship.
9th Grade
I. Orthodox Christian Studies
- Way of the Pilgrim, Part I
A Monk of the Eastern Church (Fr. Lev Gillet) A Year of the Grace of the Lord
St. Theophan the Recluse, Unseen Warfare
St. Germanus of Constantinople Commentary on the Divine Liturgy
II. Composition
- Harvey’s Revised Grammar
III. Literature
- Summer Reading: Mythology, Edith Hamilton
Julius Caesar, Shakespeare
The Odyssey (Fagles Translation)
Oedipus Cycle of Sophocles
The Aeneid (Fagles Translation)
The Iliad (Fagles translation)
Psalms
IV. History and Geography**
- Ancient History
V. Mathematics
- Elementary Algebra
Elementary Geometry
Classical Mathematics
The Elements, Euclid
VI. Science (Nature Study)**
- Astronomy
VII. Languages
- Lingua Latina Per Se Familia Romana
VIII. Fine Arts
- Art
- Iconography and Church Art and Architecture **
- Studio Art
- Music
- Sacred Music
- Choir
- Orchestra
10th Grade
I. Orthodox Christian Studies
- Met. Kallistos Ware, The Orthodox Way
- St. Sophronius of Jerusalem, On the Divine Liturgy
- St. Ignatius of Antioch, Letters
- St. Irenaeus, Against Heresies
- St. Clement of Rome, Letter to the Corinthians
II. Composition
III. Literature
- Summer Reading: Beowulf, Seamus Heaney
- Divine Comedy, Dante
- Canterbury Tales (Selections), Geoffrey Chaucer
- Hamlet, William Shakespeare
- Henry V, William Shakespeare
- Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
- Selected Sacred Writings
- Psalms
III. History and Geography**
- Medieval History
IV. Mathematics
- Geometry
- Euclid’s Elements
- Algebra II
V. Science (Nature Study)
- General Biology
VI. Classical Languages**
- Linqua Latina Per Se-Pars I Familia Romana
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**Denotes areas where texts need to be selected.
11th Grade
I. Orthodox Christian Studies
- St. Nicholas Cabasilas, On the Divine Liturgy
- St. Athanasius, On the Incarnation
- St. Basil, On the Holy Spirit
- St. Leo the Great, The Tome
- St. John Damascene, On the Divine Images, book I
- Fr. John McGuckin, The Eastern Orthodox Church. A New History
II. Literature
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—Mark Twain
- Scarlet Letter—Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Moby Dick—Herman Melville
- A Good Man is Hard to Find, Flannery O’Connor
- Selected Sacred Writings
- Psalms
III. History and Geography**
- Early Modern History and United States History
IV. Mathematics
- Algebra II
- Pre-Calculus
V. Science
- Chemistry
VI. Classical Languages
- Lingua Latina Per Se
- Homeric Greek
VII. Fine Arts
- Art
- Iconography and Church Art and Architecture
- Music
- Sacred Music
- Choir
12th Grade
I. Orthodox Christian Studies
- Elder Cleopa, The Truth of our Faith, 2 vols.
- Nikolai Gogol, Meditations on the Divine Liturgy
- Fr. Seraphim Rose, Nihilism
II. Literature
- Crime and Punishment—Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Brothers Karamazov—Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Heart of Darkness—Joseph Conrad
- The Metamorphosis—Franz Kafka
- A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich—Alexander
- Solzhenitsyn
- Selected 19th and 20th Century short stories
- Selected 16th-20th Century poetry
- Selected Sacred Writings
- Psalms
III. History and Geography**
- Modern History
IV. Economics
V. Mathematics
- Pre-Calculus
- Calculus
VI. Science
- Physics
VII. Classical Languages
- Lingua Latina Per Se
- Homeric Greek
VIII. Fine Arts
- Art
- Iconography and Church Art and Architecture **
- Music
- Sacred Music
- Choir