Grammar
Latin (Henle Third Year)
Students move into Henle Third Year Latin, reading Cicero's orations alongside systematic grammar review with the shared Henle Grammar reference.
Challenge III
Secondary School · Years 9–13
Curriculum by strand
Program guide
Challenge III GuideAvailable through enrollment in a Classical Conversations community.
Exposition & Composition
Shakespeare & Poetry
Students read five Shakespeare plays closely — from Much Ado About Nothing to Hamlet — using Leithart's Brightest Heaven of Invention, alongside a poetry strand built on The Roar on the Other Side.
Brightest Heaven of Invention: A Christian Guide to Six Shakespeare Plays
Book
Year 11
The Roar on the Other Side: A Guide for Student Poets
Book
Year 11
Recommended
Tales from Shakespeare
Book
Year 9
Reading list
Debate
US History
Students survey American history across the year through A Patriot's History of the United States, using it as the basis for debate and current-events discussion.
Research
Chemistry
A full year of Apologia's Exploring Creation with Chemistry, covering atomic structure, stoichiometry, acids and bases, thermodynamics, and equilibrium with hands-on labs throughout.
Reasoning
Mathematics
Challenge III sets no required maths text — any maths programme may be used at home.
CC recommends Saxon Advanced Mathematics; any maths programme may be used at home.
Rhetoric
Formal Logic & Philosophy
Students take up music theory as the logic of harmony with Math in Motion in the first semester, then survey the history of Western thought with Reasoning Together: Philosophy in the second.
