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Classical Christian Education

 
DEVELOPING THE WHOLE CHILD
 

Madison Christian School assists parents in biblically training their children by offering succinct and consistent Christ-centered and classical academic instruction and virtue formation.

 

We seek to form students’ souls to know and love God’s truth, goodness, and beauty through time-tested content and teaching practices developing the whole child in a thoroughly Christian atmosphere.

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OUR CLASSICAL CHRISTIAN APPROACH

GRAMMAR STAGE | GRADES K-5

In Grades K-5, we utilize children’s love of song and repetition to help them memorize fundamentals in various subjects to build a vast base of information. Students will find a fun and challenging curriculum that includes Bible, reading, writing, math, history, science, and early Latin concepts taught by caring teachers who engage in a Christ-like manner.

LOGIC STAGE | GRADES 6-8

In Grades 6-8, we make the most of the developmental stage when students begin to question things and are naturally more argumentative. They learn to think critically, form an argument with wisdom and eloquence, and deliver it respectfully.

We continue to challenge our Middle and High School students to become more engaged, self-advocating learners via a thoroughly Christian education including Bible, English, math, science, history, literature, and language.

RHETORIC STAGE | GRADES 9-12

In Grades 9-12, students are armed with facts about the world and have learned to determine truths and fallacies. During this stage, they become independent thinkers and practice persuasive speaking and effective writing as they seek to become winsome and eloquent in their expression. While they pursue distinct areas of study, the integration of their education comes full circle as they seek to make sense of the world through a Biblical worldview.

PORTRAIT OF A GRADUATE

Madison Christian School seeks to provide an education that will serve as a foundation for living as faithful disciples of Christ. Our approach is oriented toward the outcomes of our Portrait of a Graduate.
 
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LITERATURE LISTS

"People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely that the novel is more true than they are."

– G.K. Chesterton

 
KINDERGARTEN
  • Big Brown Bear
  • The Horse in Harry's Room
  • Sammy the Seal
  • Biscuit
  • Morris the Moose
  • The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (read aloud)
  • Charlotte's Web (read aloud)
FIRST GRADE
  • Curious George
  • Caps for Sale
  • Corduroy
  • If you Give a Mouse a Cookie
  • Blueberries for Sal
  • The Little Engine That Could
  • Nate the Great
  • Henry and Mudge
  • Little Bear
  • Peter Rabbit (read aloud)
  • Little Pilgrim's Promise (read aloud)
SECOND GRADE
  • Little House in the Big Woods
  • Little House on the Prairie
  • Days with Frog and Toad
  • Nate the Great
  • Henry and Mudge
  • Wagon Wheels
  • What Really Happened to Humpty?
  • Betsy Who Cried Wolf
  • Tornado
  • Second Grade Rules, Amber Brown
  • Winnie-the Pooh (read aloud)
  • Pinocchio (read aloud)
  • The Boxcar Children (read aloud)
  • Milly Molly Mandy (read aloud)
  • The Velveteen Rabbit (read aloud)
*Typical offerings, may vary slightly from year to year.
THIRD GRADE
  • Charlotte's Web
  • Stuart Little
  • The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
  • The Magician's Nephew
FOURTH GRADE
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
  • Dangerous Journey
  • Mary Poppins
  • From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
FIFTH GRADE
  • Sign of the Beaver
  • Robinson Crusoe
  • Johnny Tremain
  • Seaman
  • Anne of Green Gables
*Typical offerings, may vary slightly from year to year.
SIXTH GRADE
  • Iron Scouts of the Confederacy
  • Children of the Storm
  • Soft Rain
  • The Wright Brothers
  • The Hiding Place
  • Charlotte's Web
SEVENTH GRADE
  • The Magician’s Nephew
  • Greek Myths by Olivia Coolidge
  • The Odyssey translated by Emily Wilson
  • Detectives in Togas
  • Julius Caesar
  • Famous Men of Greece
  • Famous Men of Rome
  • Histories by Herodotus
  • The Bronze Bow
EIGHTH GRADE
  • The Hobbit
  • Beowulf
  • MacBeth
  • The Adventures of Robin Hood
  • Monks and Mystics
  • The Son of Charlemagne
  • King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
*Typical offerings, may vary slightly from year to year.
NINTH GRADE
  • 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
TENTH GRADE
  • 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.
ELEVENTH GRADE
 
All:
  • 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
TWELFTH GRADE
 
All:
  • How Should We Then Live by Francis Schaeffer
  • A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
  • The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • 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.
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DID YOU KNOW?

Latin

Studying Latin builds vocabulary, provides an understanding of English grammar, develops critical thinking, and makes learning other languages much easier.

college ready

According to the Association of Classical Christian Schools, Classical Christian Education schools perform above all other types of schools for career/college readiness, and score higher on the ACT/SAT.
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