High school classes are $265 each for the 2024/2025 school year (unless otherwise specified below), plus any lab/supply fees. 50% of tuition, plus 100% of lab/supply fees are due at the time of registration. Balances must be paid in full on or before Orientation on July 28 and 29, 2024. August 7, 2023.
Beginning in the 2024/25 school year, we are adding an annual registration fee of $25 for each student in all age/grade levels. The fee will help offset the cost of the security measures we are putting in place in 2024/25. At Orientation this year, you will be onboarded to our new Brightwheel check-in system, and every family member (junior kiddos ages 5 and up included) will also receive a new ID card.
- why they want to take the class
- in what ways they will demonstrate maturity and commitment
Below is our list of High School Co-op Classes for the 2024/2025 school year. Next to each class, we have listed the facilitator for the class, the day, time, and location of the class, the course description, and the required materials and additional lab/supply fees.
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Course Description:
Advanced Composition and Creative Writing is a high school, college-preparatory class which reinforces for students the basics and teaches advanced skills of academic and artistic writing. Its design is based on college expectations of analytical reading and writing.
In the first unit, students will practice the foundational strategies of outlining, editing, and revision in expository and persuasive essays, following MLA guidelines.
The second unit teaches elements of literature and narrative, allowing students the opportunity to write creatively.
The third unit covers the history and formal qualities of five poetic forms. In each unit, we will take class time to practice peer-editing, workshopping, and forming plans for integrating feedback in future work.
This course prepares students for college-level writing assignments and helps them develop strong writing habits, and editing and revision skills necessary for critical thinking and reading.
Required Materials:
Home access to a computer and printer
College-ruled paper for class notes
Pencils and erasers
Pens (red ink)
Highlighters (at least three colors)
1-inch three-ring binder
Five binder dividers with tabs
Algebra 1
Facilitator: Anna Braswell
Course Description:
Class will be structured around Teaching Textbooks curriculum with three lessons assigned weekly. Class day will include presentation of new material (lecture), vocabulary, and samples. Notebooks are required for class notes with in-class quizzes for practice and classroom assignments.
Algebra 2
Facilitator: Anna Braswell
Thursdays, 8:30 – 9:45
Room C102
Class will be structured around Teaching Textbooks curriculum with three lessons assigned weekly. Class day will include presentation of new material (lecture), vocabulary, and samples. Notebooks are required for class notes with in-class quizzes for practice and classroom assignments.
Required Materials:
American English Grammar (Developing the Inner Artist!)
Facilitator: Jenni Stahlmann
Thursdays, 1:00 – 2:50
Room C105
There is also a vocabulary component, which will also be done in class. Students will learn 150 new words and the etymology of those words.
At home, they will read (or listen to the audiobook) for about 30 minutes a day, five days a week. In the first semester, we will study art that was influenced by other art. Did you know Disney’s The Lion King was inspired by Shakespeare’s Hamlet? In the second semester, we will study art that influenced society. Did you know that the way that most of the Western world celebrates Christmas today was heavily influenced by Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol?
Kindness develops creativity! So, in class, we will work collaboratively on a handful of Kindness Projects. And at the end of each semester, students will write a short speech on how it impacted them. Speaking of writing, there are four writing prompts per semester, and for each one, students will write a one-page response. Each semester, they will also work on one larger creative writing project,
Finally, I want students to learn more about what interests them and what they like. That’s where their inner artist is incubated! Students will keep a kind of scrapbook of things that interest them or things they like. And to help fill this book, we will have 12 optional field trips throughout the year. Students are welcome to attend any that interest them. A parent can come too if they want, but siblings will need to stay home for these. We will experience art, music, craftsmanship, performances, architecture, and great food!
Optional Field Trips
Fri, 8/30/24 — Dali Museum, Hawkers Restaurant
Sept TBA — West Coast Black Theatre Troupe, Green Zebra Cafe
Fri, 10/25/24 — Mote Marine, S.O.S, Old Salty Dog Restaurant
Thurs in Oct TBA — SCF Jazz Concert, Linger Lodge Restaurant
Fri, 11/1/24 — Solomon’s Castle
Sat, 11/30/24 — Sarasota Farmer’s Market and Bazaar
Fri, 12/13/24 — Marietta Museum of Art and Whimsy, tour of Ringling College, Used bookstore for lunch
Sat, 1/18/25 — Friendly City Flea
Fri, 2/21/25 — Spanish Point
March TBA — Sarasota Opera House and Tsunami Restaurant
Fri, 4/25/25 — The James Museum of Western and Wildlife Art, 2D Cafe
Fri, 5/9/25 — Artful Giraffe Shop and Pottery Studio, restaurant in village (TBA)
No Fear Shakespeare (Hamlet) by Spark Notes
Emma by Jane Austen
Pygmalion by George Barnard Shaw
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
1984 by George Orwell
Supply fee will cover all grammar materials (syntax lexicon, vocabulary sheets, worksheets, handouts, etc.)
Large, hardcover journal (lined or unlined)
Grammar Binder:
- 1.5” 3-ring binder
- 4 tab dividers labeled as follows:
- Study Tools
- Syntax Lexicon
- Quizzes/Tests
- Course Reference
- About 20 page protectors
- College-ruled lined, 3-Hole punched loose leaf paper
Vocabulary Binder:
- 1.5” 3-ring binder
- 6 tab dividers labeled as follows:
- Quiz 1
- Quiz 2
- Quiz 3
- Quiz 4
- Quiz 5
- Quiz 6
Pencil case or zipper pouch filled with the following supplies:
- Pens (blue or black)
- Assorted Color Ink Pens
- Mechanical Pencils
- Extra Fine Sharpie (for writing on flags and tabs)
- Highlighters (assorted colors)
- White Out
- Post-It Flags
- Post-It TABS (durable, writable)
- Page Reinforcers
- One roll washi tape (any color/design)
1 Subject Spiral Notebook (College Ruled)
Tuesdays, 8:30 – 10:20
Room C102
This course is created using the Notgrass Exploring America history curriculum. As we go through American history from the early 1400s to present day, the students will learn that history has a direct influence on our lives today. The students will have a Bible-based history class that will delve into inspiring stories of people who have acted on their faith and made great strides for our country. Students will have the opportunity to go deeper on a topic of their choosing as they prepare for a class presentation each quarter.
Required Materials:
Notgrass Exploring America: curriculum package (Part 1 & 2, and American Voices)
Notebook
Pencil or pen
Supply Fee:
$10 per student
Course Description:
This course is a high school college-preparatory literature and writing course designed with Hewitt High School Lightning Literature and Composition guides. Hewitt’s Lightning Literature guides provide lessons in literature that will help your student’s reading comprehension, love of books, and their writing as well. For this course, students read eight unabridged books along with short stories, poems, and other shorter literary works that are included within the student guides. According to the instructions in the student guide, students write one paper per literary work.
Required Materials:
(1 st semester)
Lightning Lit. & Composition: American Literature Mid-Late 19 th Century Student Guide
(2 nd semester)
8 Unabridged novels (see below for details)
5 subject spiral notebook
1 st Semester Novels:
- Benjamin Franklin (nonfiction: Autobiography)
- Frederick Douglas (nonfiction: Narrative)
- The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Moby Dick, by Herman Melville
2 nd Semester Novels:
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
- The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane
- The Call of the Wild, by Jack London
Bible Exposition
Course Description:
Do you really know the story of Scripture? Or just pieces to the story? Are you able to open any passage and read the text for what it says as it was meant to be read? In this course, we will explore how we are to correctly read and handle the Word of God as He meant for us to read it. We will study the metanarrative of Scripture, so as we explore and exegete independent books and passages we will be able to read, interrupt, and apply them correctly to our lives.
Required Materials:
How to Read the Bible Like a Seminary Professor by Mark Yarborough
The Whole Bible Story by William Marty
ESV Study Bible
Teacher provided Teenage Theologian Binder
Supply Fee:
Thursdays, 8:30 – 10:20
Room S104
Course Description:
Required Materials:
- Notes
- OYO
- Questions
- Study Guide Questions
- Quizzes Tests
Supply Fee:
Thursdays, 10:30-12:20
Room S106
Course Description:
This course is a high school college-preparatory literature and writing course designed with Hewitt High School Lightning Literature and Composition guides. Hewitt’s Lightning Literature guides provide lessons in literature that will help your student’s reading comprehension, love of books, and their writing as well. For this course, students read seven unabridged books along with short stories, poems, and other shorter literary works that are included within the student guides. According to the instructions in the student guide, students write one paper per literary work.
Required Materials:
- Lightning Literature and Composition: British Early-Mid 19th Century Student Guide
- Lightning Literature and Composition: British Mid-Late 19th Century Student Guide
- Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
- Ivanhoe, by Sir Walter Scott
- Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
- Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte
- Silas Marner, by George Eliot
- Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens
- The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde
- Stalky and Co, by Rudyard Kipling
5 subject spiral notebook
Supply Fee:
Tuesdays, 8:30-10:20
Room C105
Course Description:
Introduction to Criminal Justice is a high school level course that will begin with a general introduction to the United States criminal justice system (e.g., policing, courts, corrections, and juvenile justice). We will examine a number of factors (media, crime statistics, case law, certain high profile crimes, technology, criminological theory, and public perception) that have influenced our modern day justice system.
Required Materials:
- Notebook for note taking
- Binder (one to start, may need an additional)
- Writing utensils/ highlighter
- The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton and Lara Love Hardin
- A device that can download the e-book will be beneficial, but not required.
- Handouts covered by the supply fee
Supply Fee:
Required Materials:
Supply Fee:
In this ONE SEMESTER economics course, students will learn about the various types of economies and how they address the various factors in the production, consumption, and transfer of wealth. Students will learn a brief economic history of the United States and other countries so as to compare the different types of economies. This will be accomplished by looking at not only individual and business economic factors but also the economy as a whole. Students will learn about the laws of supply and demand, and the importance and impact of economic policies on our economy. They will also learn how money, trade, and markets work as well as how they are measured, and so much more. There will be a mix of reading, lectures, current event discussions, and hands-on activities designed to not only teach the various topics, but make it engaging with a semester end project as well.
- Notebook
- Binder with pocket folder
- Highlighters
- Pens
- Book TBD
Supply Fee:
In this ONE SEMESTER financial literacy and money management course, students will learn basic money skills including budgeting, saving, and investing. They will also learn how to file taxes, pay bills, and so much more. There will be a mix of reading, lectures, and hands-on activities designed to not only teach the various subjects, but make it engaging as well.
Some topics to be covered include: banking (including balancing a checkbook), investing (real estate, CD’s, IRA’s), credit cards (positives and negatives), credit score (what is it, why is it important, and how can you protect it), paying for college (different ways to help pay for college and how to choose a college keeping the cost in mind), insurance (health, car, life, renters, and others), paying taxes (we will actually look at a 1040 form), budgeting (the how and why), and other consumer skills.
Notebook
Binder with pocket folder
Highlighters
Pens
Foundations in Personal Finance: Homeschool Edition – Print + Streaming
Supply Fee:
$10 per student
Class will be structured around Teaching Textbooks curriculum with three lessons assigned weekly. Class day will include presentation of new material (lecture), vocabulary, and samples. Notebooks are required for class notes with in-class quizzes for practice and classroom assignments.
Supply Fee:
$10 per student
This course is designed to provide students with a practical knowledge and understanding of the study of the American government, and its direct connection to its citizens. Students will be able to apply knowledge of the Magna Carta, Articles of Confederation, Ratification, The US Constitution, The Bill of Rights, and demonstrate their understanding of how the American system of government functions on the local, state and national levels as well as the impact on individual citizens. Students will also be able to demonstrate their understanding that US citizens have both rights and responsibilities in order for our government to function to the betterment of our society. Students will actively investigate national, state and local issues, read and participate in discussions, and develop informed arguments using a variety of forms.
Specifically, the course aims to develop knowledge and understanding of the following:
- The ideals and beliefs shared by Americans and the meaning of citizenship.
- The historical, cultural, and philosophical foundations of the U.S. government system.
- The significance of the Magna Carta, Articles of Confederation and Ratification.
- The U.S. Constitution and the components and balances of the federal government.
- The importance and relevance of the Bill of Rights and Amendments.
- Understand the importance of participating in government.
You will need a spiral notebook with paper and a writing utensil. We will be taking notes as well as completing a lot of in class activities so you will need these materials each and every day for class.
For curriculum, we will utilize a variety of sources. No book purchase is required. Student supply fee will cover the cost of printed materials all of which will be provided.
Supply Fee:
$30 per student
This class is geared toward 8th graders and up. This course is designed to develop and enhance life skills the students will need for everyday life. This class will focus on personal, interpersonal, and communication skills. Also, this course will explore other topics such as personal finance/money management, home management, health/wellness, and more. These skills will help prepare students to be successful when they become independent and on their own.
Required Materials:
1-2 inch binder
spiral notebook
writing utensil
Supply Fee:
$10 per student
Required Materials:
Exploring Creation with Marine Biology 2nd edition
Exploring Creation with Marine Biology Tests, 2nd edition
Carbonless Laboratory Notebook – available on Amazon
3 ring binder with 5 tabs labeled:
- Notes
- OYO Questions
- Study Guide
- Tests
- Quizzes
Lab Fee:
An introduction and exploration into the world of digital photography. In this class we will learn the basics of photography: the exposure triangle, framing and lighting, color balancing, landscapes, portraits and much more. Students will learn how to use their own camera to capture the wonder of God’s creation in the world around them.
Required Materials:
- DSLR or mirrorless digital camera with an interchangeable lens system
- Memory card compatible with camera
- Memory card reader to transfer files to a computer
- Photo editing software such as Lightroom or Darktable (needed after winter break)
- 4×7 photo album to hold prints
Supply Fee:
$50 per student
Beginning Sewing (Fall Semester)
Intermediate Sewing (Spring Semester)
Tuition: $105 (each semester)
Sewing machine with manual.
Extra needles and bobbins that fit your machine.
Sewing scissors
Sewing pins
Assortment of colors of all purpose threads
1/2-1” binder
*Optional iron
Fabric TBD
$25 per student
This course is designed as a first-time introduction for high school students to the works of one of the most influential writers of all time. We will focus on familiarizing ourselves with the language of Shakespeare’s writing and enough history of England and English theater to contextualize the works, their format, humor, and vocabulary. We will read a selection of sonnets, and two plays throughout the year. Students can expect to be capable of reading Shakespeare independently by the end of the year.
Required Materials:
- Pencil case with the following
- Pencils
- Red ink pens
- Highlighters in three colors
- One 1-inch binder with writing paper
- At home access to a computer and printer
Texts- No Fear Shakespeare editions of Romeo and Juliet, and Much Ado About Nothing
Supply Fee:
$10 per person
Room C212
Required Materials:
College-ruled, spiral notebook with perforated pages for class notes
Pencil case with the following supplies
- Pencils and erasers
- Pens (blue or black)
1-inch three ring binder
Access to a computer at home
A USB flash drive
Sound Speech student textbook from Bob Jones University Press (978-1-57924-620-4)
Room S106
This course is created using the Notgrass Exploring World History curriculum, covering creation and ancient times to the present day. As we learn about the flow of history through the ages we will better understand the world we live in. The students will have a Bible-based history class with inspiring stories of people who have acted on their faith and made great strides for our country. Students will have the opportunity to go deeper on a topic of their choosing as they prepare for a class presentation each quarter.
Required Materials:
Notgrass Exploring World History curriculum package (Part 1 & 2, and In Their Words)
Notebook
pencil or pen
