REGINA LUMINIS ACADEMY
CURRICULUM
GRADE TEN
Course Name: Theology II
Grade: 10
Text: The Holy Bible (Douay-Rheims preferred)
The Catechism of the Catholic Church
Father John Laux: Introduction to the Bible (Part III)
Early Christian Writings (Selections)
Eusebius: The History of the Church
Warren Carroll: The Founding of Christendom (Chapters 18-20)
Kolbe Academy Study Guide: The History of the Church
Prerequisite: None
High School Credit: One, Track one
Description:
First Semester: New Testament—teaches the student the content and significance
of the New Testament. Its center is Christ, the center of our Faith. In addition to the
text, students will read much of the New Testament.
Second Semester: Church History I—studies the development of the Church from
the close of the Apostolic age to the conversion of the Roman emperor Constantine,
approximately 90 to 325 AD.
Objectives:
New Testament:
 Relate the Old Testament Messianic prophecies to their specific fulfillment in
the New Testament.
 Understand the history and eternal significance of the incarnation, public
ministry, Crucifixion, and Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.
 Find and explain the New Testament passages which teach the Real Presence
of our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament, as well as the passages referring to the
other six sacraments.
 Trace the development of the Church from its founding by our Lord to the
death of the last Apostle and the closing of public revelation, and to
understand our Lord’s provisions for the continuity of His Holy Church from
then to now.
 Begin to study the saints as our helpers now and examples of how to live the
Christian life, with particular reference to first-century figures.
Church History I:
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Study the Word of God as it moved from the Apostles through the Apostolic
Fathers to the Fathers of the Church
Become familiar with the early Fathers and their works, particularly as they
contributed to the unfolding of Catholic Doctrine and Sacred Tradition.
Apply Christian principles faithfully as a result of studying the examples and
seeing the intercession of saints of the period.
Scope & Sequence:
I. New Testament
A. Introduction: Authors, language, integrity, superiority to OT, chronology
B. Historical Books: The Four Gospels, Acts of the Apostles
C. Doctrinal Books: Epistles of Paul, Catholic Epistles
D. Prophetical Books: The Apocalypse
II. Church History I
A. Early Patristic Age
1. Pope St. Clement I and other early witnesses to papal primacy.
2. St. Ignatius of Antioch: The structure of the early Church and its difficult
position in the Roman Empire.
3. The Didache: early liturgical practices.
B. Growth and Spread of the Church
Eusebius: Apostles, doctrinal battles, missionary efforts, heroism of
persecuted
saints, Constantine’s conversion.
C. Lives of saints: Clement of Rome, Ignatius of Antioch, Polycarp, Justinn Martyr,
Irenaeus, Cyprian, Anthony of Egypt, Athanasius, Helena
Course Name: Geometry
Grade: 9 or 10
Text: Jurgenson, Brown, Jurgenson: Geometry (Chapters 1-12, skip 8-5 to 8-7)
Isaac Todhunter: The Elements of Euclid for the Use of Schools and College.
Prerequisite: Algebra I
High School Credit: One credit, Honors
Description:
A standard study of geometry, enriched with Euclid’s Elements, with periodic review
of basic Algebra.
Objectives:
The student will learn the basics of Euclidean Geometry from a standard text, but
enriched with topics taken from Euclid’s Elements. Basic algebra will be
periodically reviewed so the student is prepared to continue with algebra in the
following year.
Scope & Sequence:
1. Points, Lines, Planes and Angles
2. Deductive Reasoning
3. Parallel Lines and Planes
4. Congruent Triangles
5. Quadrilaterals
6. Inequalities in Geometry
7. Similar Polygons
8. Right Triangles
9. Circles
10. Constructions and Loci
11. Areas of Plane Figures
12. Areas and Volumes of Solids
13. Coordinate Geometry
14. Transformations
Course Name: Latin II
Grade: 9 or 10
Text: Henle: First Year Latin (Units VIII-XIV) and Henle: Latin Grammar.
Enrichment: Translation from Vulgate and reading of Lingua Latina.
Prerequisite: Latin I
High School Credit: Honors, 1 credit
Description:
A continuation and completion of the First Year Latin book, increasing vocabulary
and finishing basic grammar.
Objectives:
Student will obtain:
1. Additional Latin vocabulary of approximately 130 words.
2. Ease with Ecclesiastical Latin pronunciation.
3. Increased English vocabulary by knowing Latin roots.
4. Increased understanding of English grammar through analysis of Latin
grammar.
5. Completion of basic Latin grammar and syntax.
Scope & Sequence:
1. Vocative, imperative mood
2. “Suus” and “sui”
3. Passive subjunctive
4. Perfect participle passive
5. “Hic”, “haec”, “hoc”
6. Prepositions ex, ab, de.
7. “Ille” and “is”.
8. Ablative constructions.
9. “Possum”
10. Infinitives in noun constructions.
11. Numerals
12. Irregular adjectives
13. “-io” verbs
14. Rules for time
15. Dative
16. Accusative with infinitive
17. Comparison of adjectives
18. Deponent verbs
19. Irregular verb “eo”
Course: HS Music 2
Grade: 10
Experience Classical Music:
Students will:
Musical Elements/ Theory:
 Understand and identify pentachord and tetrachord patterns
 Understand and identify antecedent and consequent phrases
 Identify anacrusis opening
 Describe Tonic-dominant relationship
 Describe tonic- subdominant relationships
 Write and analyze all chords
o Root position
o Inversions
o Diminished 7th
 Write and analyze all major and minor scales
o Whole tone scale
o Pentatonic scale
 Write inversions of intervals
 Write and identify all key signatures
 Understand and identify all perfect and imperfect intervals and inversions
 Transpose melodic line to an appropriate key and clef
 Orchestral instruments
o Identify transposing and nontransposing instruments
o Identify appropriate clefs for instruments
o Identify appropriate ranges for instruments
 Spell double major. minor, augmented, diminished triads in major/ minor
keys
 Make appropriate use of 7th chords
 Write and analyze appropriate cadences
o Half
o Authentic
o Plagal
o Phyrgian
o Deceptive
 Understand figured bass
 Harmonize a given melody
 Understand meters
o Duple/ triple
o Simple/ compound
o Triplets
o Hemiola
 Understand and Read all Gregorian Chant
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Symbols
Simple Neums
Rhythm
Special neums
Modes
Performance/ Creativity/ Expression:
 Sing accurate rhythms and pitches at sight
 Recognize and sight-sing stepwise passages in major and minor
 Recognize and sight-sing melodies that outline I, V, IV arpeggios in major and
minor
 Sing Gregorian Chant
o Precise diction
o Correct vibrato
Course Name: English Composition and Literature II—Ancient Rome
Grade: 10
Text: Virgil: The Aeneid
Ovid: Metamorphoses
McFarland: Lives form Plutarch: The Modern American Edition of Twelve
Lives: Coriolanus, Caesar, Mark Antony
Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Julius Caesar
Marcus Aurelius: Meditations
Cicero: De Officiis (On Obligations)
St. Augustine: Confessions (Books I – IX)
Sadlier: Composition Level E
Berquist: The Harp and the Laurel Wreath (Rhetorical-Sec. I pp. 219-287)
Prerequisite: None
High School Credit: One, Honors
Description:
This course is a companion to the Roman history course, introducing the student to
the important works of Roman literature, as well as to the use of figures of Roman
history and literature by great writers of later times. A composition component is
included, as well as memorization of poetry or another literary piece.
Objectives:
This course will enable the student to:
1. become familiar with the main examples of Roman literature and their use by
later writers, notably Shakespeare,
2. identify and examine the inter-relationship between the Greek epic (the Illiad and
the Odyssey), and the Roman epic (the Aeneid). (In grade 10, the Catholic epic, the
Divine Comedy, will be added to these),
3. identify the Roman virtue of pietas and its subsequent transformation in
Christianity.
4. further the study and imitation of these genres: epic, tragedy, comedy, and
rhetoric. Biography (Plutarch) and autobiography (St. Augustine) will also be
considered,
5. learn to interpret and distinguish the fourfold senses of theological writings: the
literal, the allegorical, the moral, and the eschatological;
6. trace the effect of the Greek world on the development of Latin literature, as well
as the Greek influence in the works of St. Augustine.
7. Improve his writing skills through the use of a composition text, as well as
writing weekly papers.
8. Commit to memory once per quarter a poem or literary piece.
Scope & Sequence:
I. Virgil: The Aeneid, books 1-6
Epic, in imitation of Homer. A call to Roman patriotism and pride, yet with Greek
inspiration. Enormously influential throughout history.
II. Ovid: Metamorphoses
Book I can well be compared with the Old Testament; book 4 with Shakespeare’s
Romeo and Juliet. Books 5 and 6, as well as much of the rest of the work, contains
important Greco-Roman myths. This is the real source for the great part of the
information found in books of mythology.
III. Plutarch, biographies, and William Shakespeare, plays
Plutarch was Shakespeare’s source for many of his plays. These are studied
together to show Shakespeare’s transformation of the Roman material into his
Elizabethan context.
IV. Marcus Aurelius: Meditations
The Emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote spare Stoic epigrammatic observations that
contrast sharply with Tacitus’ devastating portraits of his debauched predecessors.
They can usefully be compared with the precepts of the Christianity he persecuted
so ferociously.
V. Cicero: De Officiis (On Obligations)
An essay in which Cicero expounds his conception of the best way to live, behave,
and observe moral obligations.
VI. St. Augustine: Confessions
Spiritual autobiography of a great saint, one of the most widely read religious books
of all time, highly regarded by Catholics and non-Catholics alike.
Course Name: History II
Grade: 10
Text: Livy: The History of Rome from its Foundation (The Early History of Rome
(Books I-III) and The War with Hannibal (Books XXI-XXIV, XXVI-XXX))
John McFarland: Lives From Plutarch: The Modern American Edition of Twelve
Lives (Marcus Cato, The Gracci, Cicero)
Tacitus: The Annals of Imperial Rome
St. Augustine: De Civitate Dei (Books I-V, XIII-IX)
Susan Wise Bauer: The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest
Accounts to the Fall of Rome (Selections from Chapters 49-84)
Warren Carroll: The Founding of Christendom (Chapters 18-20) (Teacher
only)
Prerequisite: None
High School Credit: One, Honors
Description:
This course examines the pre-Christian and early Christian world as seen through
the rise and fall of the Roman Empire. It covers highlights of Roman history from
the founding of Rome to the fall of the Empire in 476 A.D., with background from St.
Augustine on the conflict of Catholicism with paganism in Roman society.
Objectives:
The course will enable the student to:
1. become familiar with the political and religious developments of this period,
2 know and understand the significance of the important events, dates, persons and
places in the Western Europe of 753 B.C. to 476 A.D.
3 trace the cause and effect of political developments in the ancient world and, by
extension, in the modern world.
Scope & Sequence:
Rome, Kingdom and Republic (753-27 BC)
Sources: Livy and Plutarch: Marcus Cato, The Gracci, Cicero
The Roman Empire (27 BC to 476 AD) Sources: Tacitus and Augustine
Augustine: I. Christianity did not cause the fall of Rome, 2. Pagan gods never
protected men’s souls, 3. Physical evils were not prevented by the gods, 4. Divine
justice and the growth of the Roman Empire, 5. Providence and the greatness of
Rome, 8. Classical philosophy and the refined paganism, 9. Pagan deities, demons
and Christian angels.
Course Name: Biology I
Grade: 9 or 10
Text: Wile & Durnell: Exploring Creation with Biology
Handouts on Church teaching on Faith/Reason and Evolution
Prerequisite: None
High School Credit: One, Track I
Description:
Biology I is an introductory course in biology, giving a broad overview of the
science, and including laboratory work.
Objectives:
Students will be able to define life, employ the scientific method, understand
classification of life and be able to classify many organisms. They will learn the
basics of cellular function, structure and reproduction, as well as the basics of
Mendellian Genetics. Students will also be able to articulate and defend the Church’s
teaching on science and reason and how this relates to the theory of evolution.
Students will acquire the ability to organize, to interpret, and to communicate data
gathered in laboratory research.
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Definition of life, scientific method, method of classification
Monera
Protista
Fungi
Chemistry of life
The Cell
Cellular reproduction and DNA
Genetics
Evolution: The theory and Church teaching on science and reason.
Ecology
Invertebrates
Arthropoda
Chordata
Plantae: Anatomy and Classification
Plantae: Physiology and Reproduction
Reptiles, Birds and Mammals