T E R E S I A N U M
ACADEMY
SCHEDULE
Courses
The following courses will be offered, Monday through Thursday: Latin and Ancient Greek, Theology (Sacred Scripture), Philosophy and Literature (Cosmology), the Muses (Music and History), Physics, Math (Geometry and Algebra). The classes will be taught in as Socratic fashion as fits the subject. The foreign languages will be taught through immersion in the respective languages, literature, and grammar – and through dramatic recreations in the target languages.
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Classes are distinctly tailored for young men and young women: single-sex classrooms, as feasible. The subjects to be covered are the same, but the 1) length and sort of continuous instruction may be slightly different. 2) reading material will sometimes vary. 3) some classes may be broader (or, on the contrary, more specific) in scope for one or the other sex. In general, girls seem to benefit from a more unified presentation; boys from the more particularly focused; the sum of the content, however, will overlap and end up nearly identical.
HISTORY/MUSIC
THEOLOGY
MATH
LATIN/GREEK
PHYSICS
PHILOSOPHY & LITERATURE
UPCOMING DATES
05 SEP
First Day of School
09 OCT
Columbus Day
No Classes
01 NOV
No School
All Saints' Day
20 NOV
Thanksgiving Break
No School NOV 20th-24th
Theology: generally, the study of God and how His creation relates to Him. Specifically this year, the careful reading and study of the Old Testament of Holy Scripture, through the interpretive lens of the Church’s Liturgies, Fathers, and later commentators.
Philosophy: a reflectional study of what is, how it is, why it is. begins, in the first year, with the Physics of Aristotle, and John Philoponus’ and St. Thomas’ commentaries).
Science: (Physics first, as in philosophy, but a physics rooted in the physical world). This will be a class that studies and shows the philosophical underpinnings to all scientific study of matter and motion (the basis for the further study of chemistry and biology, both of which assume matter and motion, and their “energetic” interplay) – so, a philosophical physics.
Math: to understand this important “level of abstraction” - and what the human mind can do with this abstraction.
The study of Geometry has such a history – thanks to Euclid – and is so fundamental to the man’s daily life that no educated person (of any colored collar) can afford to be ignorant of it.
SCHEDULE
MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY
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7:30- 8:10 Between Masses:
Two days per week: History
Alternate two days: Music
8:10-8:20 Prime/Terce
8:30 Mass
After Mass and Thanksgiving: Breakfast
9:30 – 10:10 Physics (Novare)
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10:20 – 11:00 Geometry / Algebra
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11:10 – 11:20 Sext
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11:20-12:00 Lunch and Recreation
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12:00-1:00 Latin: (Angelicum Academy)
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1:10 – 1:50 Theology – Old Testament
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2:00-2:40 Philosophy and literature
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2:45 – 2:55 None
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3:00 – 4:00 Greek: (Angelicum Academy)
Languages, Literature, and History: Latin and Ancient Greek (the languages and their literature, in history). It is understood that the history of each subject is integrated into its presentation; so, too, is it expected that competent, accurate, and eloquent composition is a part of each course – no longer a separate matter. In these classes we will learn the rhetoric of the greatest authors and how to imitate and re-create their styles – along with the circumstances in which they wrote.
Antiquity through the Ages (history, literature, and composition): Hesiod and Ovid (cosmogony); Philo, Plutarch, Jerome, and Athanasius (biographies); Shakespeare and Sienkiewicz (historical fiction); Statius and Euripides (Oedipus and family); Sts. Ignatius and Basil, St. Jerome and Cicero (Letter-writing).