High School · Grades 9–12
The Senior Year of Faith and Reason
Foundational reading for parents alongside Challenge IV: recovering an imaginative, full-orbed Protestant vision of culture, grounding education in the objective values it must not debunk, and building the skilled listening a graduating senior's parents need for the year's transitions.
Mathematics
Challenge IV sets no required math text — any math program may be used at home. CC's own Trivium Tables reference chart and a portable laminated whiteboard offer optional supports for number work and open-ended practice.
CC recommends a senior-level Saxon course; any math program may be used at home.
Calculus & Physics
Students study the mathematics of change with Mitch Stokes's Calculus for Everyone, working through the physical problems that gave rise to calculus alongside the mathematics itself.
Bible & Theology
Students read Scripture alongside C.S. Lewis's Mere Christianity and Reasoning Together: Words in the Word, reasoning through the faith as the year's capstone theology work.
The History of Ideas
Students trace the history of ideas through Daniel Boorstin's The Discoverers, using humanity's long search to know the world as the ground for the year's debate.
Latin (Henle Fourth Year)
Students finish the Henle sequence with Fourth Year Latin, reading Cicero and Virgil in the original, with the shared Henle Grammar reference and Trivium Tables Latin.
Ancient Literature
A capstone year reading the founding works of Western literature — Hesiod, Homer, Virgil, and Sophocles — guided by Leithart's Heroes of the City of Man, culminating in the Senior Thesis.
Other resources tagged into this level beyond the strand lists above.
