All Things Clay

Teacher: Sarah Schoen

Students will learn clay hand-building techniques. Students will focus on functional and decorative pottery with a variety of traditional and modern techniques. Participants learn freehand and mold techniques to make a wide range of forms, from bowls and mugs to wall hangings and other items. Forms will be complimented through painting and finishing techniques that add color and design to the work.

Teacher: BobbiSue Murray

Talking with your hands?! Awesome! This beginner-level course is designed to not only give students a fun yet challenging way to obtain a basic linguistic and conversational understanding of ASL, but to dive deep into Deaf culture. Students will discover new ways of communication, the different language barriers Deaf people experience on a daily basis, and a general sense of how to communicate with our Deaf neighbors and friends in our community. This class is open to 7th-12th grade students.

Baking Essentials

Teacher: Sarah Schoen

This course is a study of the fundamentals of baking including dough, quick breads, pies, cakes, cookies, tarts and basic items made in a bakery. Topics include baking terminology, tool and equipment use, formula conversions, functions of ingredients, and the use of proper flours. This class is very hands on and students will work in groups for most of their bakes created in the school’s kitchen.

Developing Drawing I/II

Teacher: Sarah Schoen

Design Elements and Principles, Drawing, Painting, Aesthetics, Art criticism

This is a studio art course that focuses on the elements and principles of design in a two-dimensional format. Students will be introduced to artists past and current, who communicate successfully by using the language of art.

Students will:

• Increase skill in communicating their own ideas.

• Gain confidence in their drawing ability and painting, learning to perceive rather than assume

• Learn drawing techniques such as contour line drawing, linear perspective, atmospheric perspective, and shading

• Use pencil, colored pencil, oil pastel, markers, charcoal, and ink in subjects including still life, portrait, landscape, and abstract designs.

We will have friendly critiques of our work using the four steps of art criticism: describe, analyze, interpret, judge. Each student will compile a portfolio of their completed work from which they will select pieces to be entered in the annual Spring Art Show.

Famous Artists and Styles

Teacher: Sarah Schoen

This is a fun studio art course based on art history and significant art movements and artists of the past. We will learn from the Masters, become acquainted with their styles, and try their techniques. Each age and culture has unique things to teach us about art and creativity.

Projects will include 2D and 3D materials, possibly including block printing and tile mosaic.

Each student will compile a portfolio of their completed work from which they will select pieces to be entered in the annual Spring Art Show.

Fiber Arts

Teacher: Sarah Schoen

This course is relaxing in the process while still being challenging in technique and creativity. Most of the work will be done during class time. We will explore weaving with such materials as fabrics, yarn, ribbon, string, paper, beads, and more, on various shapes and types of looms. We may also employ decorative stitchery in our work. In addition to weaving, we will learn the art of needle felting! Needle felting is processing dyed sheep’s wool fibers into colorful designs, small usable items, and small sculptures. The possibilities are innumerable, and this is a very satisfying and intriguing process. Students will select works to be entered in the annual Spring Art Show.

Teacher: Chad Temple

It is one thing to believe something is true, and yet something completely different to know why it is true and even better when you can defend your belief that it is true. If you cannot defend your belief it may end up like a balloon held by a child, too easily blown around and eventually popped by a strong wind (or a mean brother). Our children deserve more than that. They deserve to be confident in this Christian faith, able to weather any wind of doubt.

In this course we will discover the beauty and the intellectual strength of the Christian faith they hold. We will realize that reason does not need to be suspended for us to hold to the Christian faith. We will learn how to think through the claims made against Christianity, to detect the weaknesses of the argument, and how to present an argument solidly anchored in truth. Right now as you read this, there are professors preparing lesson plans designed to separate your child from their faith. Let’s give our children the intellectual tools necessary to weather that storm.

Teacher: Chad Temple

Philosophy is like the ink of a broken pen, it is everywhere. If you have ever wondered if there is a God, why you exist, if there is such a thing as freedom, what determines right from wrong, how do we know what we know, what about science and religion, or a whole long list of other questions, you have thought philosophically. These are questions that need to be answered if we are going to be able to engage our culture effectively, missionally. In this class, we will cover logic, critical thinking, the concept of truth in our postmodern culture, philosophy of religion, philosophy of science, and the major philosophers. All of this will strengthen our ability to understand the culture we live in and the people God desires us to reach.

Landscape Design and Gardening

Teacher: Sarah Schoen

Topics include basic botany, soils, growing annuals, perennials, trees and shrubs, fruits and vegetables, lawns, pests and diseases of plants, plant classification, and selected subjects of local interest. We will learn the different planting “zones”, how our food is produced and effects the environment; as well as students will get to experience growing some of their own species from seed.

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Spanish I (8th Grade Only)

Teacher: Leigh Anne Silva

Students will learn several basic verb endings and grammatical structures as well as pronunciation and basic vocabulary. They will develop basic reading, writing, and entry-level conversation skills. Students will study vocabulary. Students will need to have a basic understanding of English grammar before beginning this course.

Teacher: Chad Temple

Students will study Jesus and the compelling way that He lived. The class will focus on three basic, yet life-changing principles:

• Be With Jesus

• Become Like Jesus

• Do What Jesus Did

With these concepts as the guide, students will learn about prayer, how to read Scripture, how Jesus cared for those forgotten, among other topics. The goals of the course will be to teach students how to study the way Jesus lived so that they love Him more and pattern their lives after His.

Teacher: Elizabeth Inskeep

Yearbook is a fun class where students learn many valuable lessons such as; beginning photography, time management, the importance of meeting deadlines, and working together as a team. This class is hands-on and as with other classes-- there will be homework.

Course Objectives:

• Develop a theme

• Design a cover and title page that reflect the theme both verbally and graphically

• Creating visually pleasing design layouts effectively using graphics and color

• Write copy for spreads

• Determine photo ideas and take photos

• Edit and finalize pages

• Meet publication deadlines

3D Art

Teacher: Sarah Schoen

Students will learn how to design, experiment, and create original, 3D art using recycled materials and other objects. We will also work collaboratively to create installation sculptures. Students will learn how to design, experiment, and create original work out of clay as well as other three dimensional materials such as: yarn, paper, cardboard, felt and more.