Challenge II

High School · Grades 9–12

Curriculum by strand

Challenge II Guide

Available through enrollment in a Classical Conversations community.

Grammar

Latin (Henle Second Year)

Students move into Henle Second Year Latin, translating original passages from Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War alongside systematic review lessons.

Henle Latin Second Year

Henle Latin Grammar

Recommended

Henle Latin Second Year Answer Key

Exposition & Composition

British Literature

Students survey British literature from Beowulf to the twentieth century, beginning with the English Epic Poetry anthology and reading fifteen more works across the year.

English Epic Poetry

Recommended

Words Aptly Spoken: British Literature

Reading list

Debate

Western Cultural History: Art & Music

Students study the history of Western culture through its art and music, tracing how ideas and beliefs shaped the works of great artists and composers.

Marvelous to Behold

Tour Guide: Introduction to Debate

Recommended

Trivium Table: Debate

Recommended

Trivium Table: Rhetoric

Recommended

Classical Music for Dummies

Recommended

State of the Arts: From Bezalel to Mapplethorpe

Recommended

The Gift of Music: Great Composers and Their Influence

Recommended

How Should We Then Live?

Research

Biology

A full year of Apologia's Exploring Creation with Biology, covering the cell, genetics, taxonomy, and the diversity of life with hands-on labs throughout.

Exploring Creation with Biology

Reasoning

Mathematics

Challenge II sets no required math text — any math program may be used at home.

Recommended

Saxon Algebra 2 Homeschool Kit

CC recommends Saxon Algebra 2; any math program may be used at home.

Rhetoric

Formal Logic

Students continue formal, deductive logic with Memoria Press's Traditional Logic II, then turn to Plato's Socratic dialogues and Strunk and White's guide to English style.

Traditional Logic II

Words Aptly Spoken: Socratic Dialogues

The Elements of Style

More in this level

Other resources tagged into this level beyond the strand lists above.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Princeton University Press

Gulliver's Travels

Barnes & Noble Classics

Jane Eyre

W. W. Norton

Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy)

Scribner

Paradise Lost

Penguin Classics

Pilgrim's Progress

Moody Publishers

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Dover Publications

Something Beautiful for God: Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Doubleday

The Canterbury Tales

Penguin Classics

The Hobbit, Or There and Back Again

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt