High School » High School (9th-12th)

High School (9th-12th)

FURNISHING THE GOOD LIFE, FUELING A FUTURE

Madison Christian's High School includes 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th Grade. The focus of our Christian high school is shaping students' souls to learn Truth, love beauty, and live goodness.

As the Rhetoric Stage of our high school Classical Christian Education, students continue to order their thinking by adding the adornment of beautiful and articulate language. They begin to re-integrate their knowledge, but now with analysis and meaning, developing personal convictions grounded in a Christian worldview. Students are able to articulate not only what is true but also why it is true. The “great conversation” is continued through classic texts that challenge students to develop good aesthetic tastes, think more deeply about the world, and to value the pursuit of wisdom and virtue.

As students approach graduation, there is a “crowning” that takes place as students complete their Senior Thesis which is designed to demonstrate what they have learned throughout each phase of their education. Our goals for our entire program can be summed up in the MCS Portrait of a Graduate. 

High School Curriculum Overview:

High School Overview
  • Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
  • Through the Gates of Splendor by Elisabeth Elliot
  • The Crucible by Arthur Miller
  • A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission by Jonathan Mayhew
  • The Declaration of Independence
  • Origins and Principles of the American Revolution by Friedrich von Gentz
  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Citizen Soldiers by S. Ambrose
  • Letter from Birmingham Jail by MLK Jr.
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  • A Christian Manifesto by F. Schaeffer
  • Animal Farm by George Orwell
*Typical offerings, may vary slightly from year to year.
  • Mythology by Edith Hamilton
  • Art and the Bible by Francis Schaeffer 
  • The Iliad by Homer 
  • Three Theban Plays by Sophocles
  • Fables by Aesop 
  • The Republic by Plato 
  • Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
  • Lives by Plutarch 
  • 1 Maccabees 
  • Cicero: Selected Works
  • Josephus: The Essential Writings ed. by Paul Maier 
  • Apostolic Fathers
*Typical offerings, may vary slightly from year to year.
All:
  • On the Incarnation by Athanasius
  • A Shorter Summa by Thomas Aquinas, edited by Peter Kreeft
  • The Church History by Eusebius
  • City of God by St. Augustine 
  • Quran (selections, online)
  • Le Morte D’ Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
  • The Divine Comedy by Dante
  • The Prince by Machiavelli
  • Selected Writings by Martin Luther
  • Ninety-five Theses
  • St. Francis of Assisi and St. Thomas Aquinas by G.K. Chesterton
  • The Lives of Thomas Becket
English 11 ONLY:
  • The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis
  • The City of God by St. Augustine
  • Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio (selections)
  • Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare
  • Sir Gawain & the Green Knight by unknown author
  • Aladdin, Arabian Nights by unknown author
  • The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
  • The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (selections)
AP Lang ONLY:
  • Everything’s an Argument
  • The Elements of Style by Strunk & White
  • Dead Wake by Eric Larson
  • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  • Fahrenheit 451 (graphic novel)
  • Life of Pi by Yann Martel
  • The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
  • The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  • Maus, Vol. 1 by Art Spiegelman
  • The Things They Carried by Tim O’ Brien
*Typical offerings, may vary slightly from year to year.
All:
  • The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis
  • The Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis
  • Bruchko by Bruce Olson
  • The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • How Should We Then Live by Francis Schaeffer
  • A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
  • Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  • The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray by O. Wilde
  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  • Bonhoeffer by Eric Metaxas
  • Live Not By Lies by Rod Dreher
English 12 ONLY:
  • Enlightenment Reader
  • The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
  • Paradise Lost by John Milton
  • 1984 by George Orwell
AP Lit ONLY:
  • The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
  • A Separate Peace by John Knowles
  • Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Poe (selections)
  • The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Hamlet by Shakespeare
  • The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
*Typical offerings, may vary slightly from year to year.
Athletics
Senior Experience
Service Day
Junior Retreat
Spirit Week