Josiah Ethan Meadows

Grammar and Composition with Poetry

Language Arts

This writing course is based on the progymnasmata, a series of preliminary rhetorical exercises that began in ancient Greece and continued for more than 1500 years. Students follow a structured approach to learning the various skills for writing and rhetoric. Lessons begin with imitation. Students first learn the skills of narration and paraphrasing, working from given material rather original compositions. As they continue through the course, they eventually develop and present their own ideas.

Cobbett, William. A Grammar of the English Language. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Selby, James A. Classical Composition: Fable, Narrative, Chreia, Maxim, Refutation, Confirmation, & Common Topic. Louisville, KY: Memoria Press, 2010.

Whitling, Matt. The Grammar of Poetry: Imitation in Writing. Moscow, ID: A Logos School Publication 2000.

Algebra I

Mathematics

This first-year algebra course builds the algebraic foundation essential for students to solve increasingly complex problems. Higher order thinking skills use real-world applications, reasoning and justification to make connections to math strands. Algebra 1 focuses on algebraic thinking and multiple representations - verbal, numeric, symbolic, and graphical. Graphing calculator labs model mathematical situations.

"Algebra I." Aleks(R) Adaptive Learning Software by McGraw Hill Education. Accessed September 8, 2015. https://www.aleks.com.

Saxon, John H. Algebra 1: An Incremental Development. Norman, OK: Saxon Publishers, 2003.

Physical Science

Science

This overview of chemistry, physics and earth science is designed to be the last course a student takes before biology. The course's sixteen modules cover basic matter and unit conversions, air, the atmosphere, water, the hydrosphere, earth and lithosphere, factors affecting weather, predicting weather, physics of motion, Newton’s laws, gravity and circular motion, electricity and magnetism, radiation and atomic structure, light and sound, and astrophysics. Hands-on lab experiments are conducting using household chemicals and supplies. Students learn to write 'lab summaries' that will be turned in and graded. One quiz per module will be given in class covering homework assigned.

Wile, Jay L. Exploring Creation with Physical Science. Anderson, IN: Apologia Educational Ministries, 2007.

Latin

Foreign Language

Naso, Publius Ovidius, and Sidney G. Owen. P. Ovidi Nasonis Tristium libri quinque, Ibis, Ex Ponto libri quattuor, Halieutica, Fragmenta. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1915.

Naso, Publius Ovidius, and R. J. Tarrant. P. Ovidi Nasonis Metamorphoses. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Naso, Publius Ovidius, and D. Crisp Helvetius. P. Ovidii Nasonis Epistolarum Heroidum Liber. London, UK: Delphini, 1795.

Maró, Publius Vergilius, and Rosa Elisa. Giangoia. P. Vergilii Maronis Bucolica Carmina. Montella (Avelino), Italy: Edizioni Accademia Vivarium Novum, 2008.

Maró, Publius Vergilius, and Hans H. Ørberg. Aeneis. Newburyport, MA: Domus Latina, 2008.

Maró, Publius Vergilius, and Roger Aubrey Baskerville Mynors. Opera: Recognovit Brevique Adnotatione Critica Instruxit. Oxonii (Oxford), UK: E Typographeo Clarendoniano (Clarendon P.), 1969.

Caesar, Julius, and Hans H. Ørberg. Comentarii De Bello Gallico: Ex Libris I, IV, V Discipulis Legenda. Roma, Italia: Ediciones Academia Vivero Novum, 2010.

Ovid, and E. J. Kenney. Amores ; Medicamina Faciei Femineae ; Ars Amatoria ; Remedia Amoris. Oxonii (Oxford), UK: E Typographeo Clarendoniano (Clarendon P.), 1995.

Honors: Ancient Greek I

Foreign Language

Balme, Maurice George, L. Miraglia, and T.F. Borri. Athenaze: Introduzione Al Greco Antico Volume I. Roma, Italia: Edizioni Accademia Vivarium Novum, 2011.

Cònsoli, Carmelo. Meletēmata Volume I. Montella (Avellino), Italia: Edizioni Accademia Vivarium Novum, 2008.

Barbone, Alessandro. Ephòdion: Antologia Di Autori Greci. Roma, Italia: Edizioni Accademia Vivarium Novum, 2010.

Honors: Italian II

Foreign Language

This SAT Italian course teaches knowledge of high-frequency vocabulary, appropriate idiomatic expressions, and language structure in context. It emphasizes familiarity with grammatical structures and vocabulary. A mastery of the course material enables students to understand content in reading selections taken from newspapers, magazine articles, fiction, historical works, advertisements, tickets, brochures, forms, and schedules.

Migliorini, Bruno, and Giovanni Nencioni, and Alfredo Schiaffini. L'Italiano Secondo Il Metodo Natura Volume II. Netherlands: H. Veenman & Zonen N.V.-Wageningen, 1962.

Migliorini, Bruno, Carlo Tagliavini, and Piero Fiorelli. DOP: Dizionario Italiano Multimediale E Multilingue Dortografia E Di Pronunzia: Parole E Nomi Dellitaliano A-I/J Vol. I. Roma, Italia: RAI-ERI, 2010.

Migliorini, Bruno, Carlo Tagliavini, and Piero Fiorelli. DOP: Dizionario Italiano Multimediale E Multilingue Dortografia E Di Pronunzia: Parole E Nomi Dellitaliano K-Z Vol. II. Roma, Italia: RAI-ERI, 2010.

Vamba. Il Giornalino Di Gian Burrasca. Torino: Edizione Paoline, 1991.

Introduction to Aristotelian Logic

Philosophy

This logic course is divided into five sections: Terms and Definition, Statements and Their Relationships, Syllogisms and Validity, Arguments in Normal English, and Informal Fallacies. Students learn the fundamental standards for rational thought through written exercises, quizzes, and tests.

Nance, James B., and Douglas Wilson. Introductory Logic: The Fundamentals of Thinking Well. Moscow, ID: Canon Press, 2014.

Violin: All-State Orchestra

Fine Arts

Achieved 9th grade All-State Orchestra

Honors: English Composition I

Language Arts

** Audited course Monday, Wednesday, Friday on the campus of Emmanuel College, Royston, GA.
Completed course work. Editorial feedback on all writing assignments was provided by Prof. Nathan Gilmour, Ph.D.

Plato, and Robin Waterfield. Republic. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Crider, Scott F. The Office of Assertion: An Art of Rhetoric for the Academic Essay. Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2005.

Graff, Gerald, and Cathy Birkenstein. "They Say / I Say": The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2014.

Algebra II/ Geometry

Mathematics

Algebra 2 course description available here.

This geometry course covers materials such as geometry foundations, transformations, congruence, similarity, right triangles & trigonometry, solid geometry, circles and analytic geometry.

"Algebra 2." Aleks(R) Adaptive Learning Software by McGraw Hill Education. Accessed August 1, 2016. https://www.aleks.com.

"Geometry." Khan Academy. Accessed January 2, 2017. https://www.khanacademy.org/math/geometry.

U.S. History: Pre-Colonial to 1865

Social Studies

This course provides a history of America from the pre-colonial period through the Civil War. It examines the basic chronology, significant documents, events, and the social, economic, and political developments that formed our early democratic society.

"US History | Arts and Humanities." Khan Academy. Accessed August 1, 2016. https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history.

Johnson, Paul. A History of the American People. New York: HarperPerennial, a Division of HarperCollins Publishers, 1999.

Meacham, Jon. American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2009.

McCullough, David G. 1776. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2006.

Davidson, James West. A Little History of the United States. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015.

Franklin, Benjamin, Jesse Lemisch, and Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography and Other Writings. New York: New American Library, 1961.

Chemistry with Lab

Science

This course includes vocabulary, reading assignments, lectures, laboratory experiments, and quarterly exams. Topics include matter, atomic bonding, electrons and energy levels, isotope ratios, and reactions and equations. With a special emphasis on the scientific method and data analysis, lab activities teach important laboratory techniques used by chemists, including periodic patterns and reactions and equations. Many AP required labs are included.

David Shormann, Ph.D. (2016). DIVE Chemistry. Digital Interactive Education, USA.

Honors: Latin

Foreign language

Carus, Titus Lucretius, Ignacio Armella Chávez, Jiri A. Cepelak, Luigi Miraglia, and Emlen M. Smith. T. Lucretii Cari De Rerum Natura: Locos Selectos Ad Usum Discipulorum. Roma: Edizioni Accademia "Vivarium Novum", 2012.

Carus, T. Lucretius, and Michael Du Fay. T. Lucretii Cari De Rerum Natura Libri Sex Vol. I. London, UK: Delphini, 1823.

Carus, T. Lucretius, and Michael Du Fay. T. Lucretii Cari De Rerum Natura Libri Sex Vol. II. London, UK: Delphini, 1823.

Carus, T. Lucretius, and Michael Du Fay. T. Lucretii Cari De Rerum Natura Libri Sex Vol. III. London, UK: Delphini, 1823.

Flaccus, Quintus Horatius, and Ludovicus Desprez. Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera Interpretatione et Notis. Philadephila, PA: Delphini, 1835.

Honors: Ancient Greek II

Foreign Language

Balme, Maurice George, L. Miraglia, and T.F. Borri. Athenaze: Introduzione Al Greco Antico Volume II. Roma, Italia: Edizioni Accademia Vivarium Novum, 2011.

Cònsoli, Carmelo. Meletēmata Volume II. Montella (Avellino), Italia: Edizioni Accademia Vivarium Novum, 2008.

Barbone, Alessandro. Ephòdion Β (Ephòdion II): Antologia Di Autori Greci (Apollodoro - Erodoto, Senofonte - Giamblico). Roma, Italia: Edizioni Accademia Vivarium Novum, 2010.

Barbone, Alessandro, and Tommaso Francesco Bórri. La Tavola Di Cebète: Testo integrale, commento e note. Montella, Avellino: Edizioni Accademia Vivarium Novum, 2008.

AP: Italian Language and Culture

Foreign Language

The AP Italian Language and Culture course emphasizes communication (understanding and being understood by others) by applying the interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational modes of communication in real-life situations. This includes vocabulary usage, language control, communication strategies, and cultural awareness. The AP Italian Language and Culture course strives not to overemphasize grammatical accuracy at the expense of communication. To best facilitate the study of language and culture, the course is taught exclusively in Italian. The AP Italian Language and Culture course engages students in an exploration of culture in both contemporary and historical contexts. The course develops students' awareness and appreciation of cultural products (e.g., tools, books, music, laws, conventions, institutions); practices (patterns of social interactions within a culture); and perspectives (values, attitudes, and assumptions).

Migliorini, Bruno, and Giovanni Nencioni, and Alfredo Schiaffini. L'Italiano Secondo Il Metodo Natura Volume III. Netherlands: H. Veenman & Zonen N.V.-Wageningen, 1962.

Migliorini, Bruno, Carlo Tagliavini, and Piero Fiorelli. DOP: Dizionario Italiano Multimediale E Multilingue Dortografia E Di Pronunzia: Parole E Nomi Dellitaliano A-I/J Vol. I. Roma, Italia: RAI-ERI, 2010.

Migliorini, Bruno, Carlo Tagliavini, and Piero Fiorelli. DOP: Dizionario Italiano Multimediale E Multilingue Dortografia E Di Pronunzia: Parole E Nomi Dellitaliano K-Z Vol. II. Roma, Italia: RAI-ERI, 2010.

German

Foreign Language

Römer, Gudrun. ASSIMIL German Lehrbuch 4 Audio-CdS 1 Mp3-CD. Köln: ASSiMiL, 2014.

Jackson, Eugene, Adolph Geiger, Robert D. Vanderslice, and Arnold Leitner. German Made Simple Learn to Speak and Understand German Quickly and Easily. New York, NY: Three Rivers Press, 2006.

Music Violin Concertos

Fine Arts

Rhetoric

Language Arts

This composition course provides instruction in the gathering and evaluation of information and its presentation in well-organized expository prose. The course includes instruction in invention, arrangement, logic, style, and revision.

Crowley, Sharon, and Debra Hawhee. Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students. Harlow: Longman, 2009.

Adler, Mortimer Jerome, and Charles Van Doren. How to Read a Book. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014.

Addison, Joseph, and George Washington Greene. "An Essay on Virgil's Georgics," in The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurds Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection ; and Macaulays Essay on His Life and Works. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1888, 379-388.

Johnson, Samuel The Yale Edition of The Works of Samuel Johnson Volume 3. New Haven; London: Yale University Press 1958-2018.

Homer, George Chapman, and Allardyce Nicoll. Chapman's Homer. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998.

The Shepheardes Calendar - Edmund Spencer

SAT Math Prep

Mathematics

"SAT Math practice." Khan Academy. Accessed September 15, 2017. https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/sat/sat-math-practice.

U.S. History: 1865 to Present****

Social Studies

The course builds on the content learned in U.S. History: Pre-Colonial to 1865 by exploring the major events that shaped 19th & 20th century America.

"US History | Arts and Humanities." Khan Academy. Accessed September 15, 2018. https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history.

Washington, Booker T. Up from Slavery. New York: New American Library, 2000.

McCullough, David G. Mornings on Horseback. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2003.

Grant, George. Carry a Big Stick: The Uncommon Heroism of Theodore Roosevelt. Elkton, MD: Highland Books, 1996.

Astronomy

Science

Schaaf, Fred. 40 Nights to Knowing the Sky: A Night-by-night Skywatching Primer. New York: Henry Holt, 1998.

Ryan, Jay. Signs & Seasons: Understanding the Elements of Classical Astronomy. Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.: Fourth Day Press, 2007.

Lewis, C. S. The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Honors: Latin translation Golius 1615

Foreign Language

Translation of Epitome Doctrinae Moralis by Theophilus Golius. The book is an abridgment of Aristotle’s Ethics and was used as a textbook at Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard. Theophilus Golius (1528-1600), a professor of moral philosophy in Strasbourg, wrote Greek and Latin grammars and texbooks on three Aristotelian branches of practical philosophy. His textbook [Epitome Doctrinae Moralis] on moral doctrine was published posthumously in Strasbourg in 1615 and reprinted in Frankfurt (1617), Strasbourg (1621), Cambridge (1634), and London (1662). The Epitome Doctrinae Moralis is arranged according to the books and chapters of Nicomachean Ethics. He often quotes Greek expressions, but does not discuss philology.

Golius, Theophilus. Epitome Doctrinae Moralis. Oxonii (Oxford), UK: W. Baxter, 1823.

French

Foreign Language

This SAT French and SAT French with Listening course teaches knowledge of words representing different parts of speech and idioms within culturally appropriate contexts. Ability to select an appropriate word or expression that is grammatically correct within a sentence. Understanding of such points as the main and supporting ideas, themes, and setting of a French passage. Selections are drawn from fiction, essays, historical works, newspaper and magazine articles, and everyday materials such as advertisements, timetables, forms, and tickets.

Jensen, Arthur M. Le Français Par La Méthode Nature. Copenhagen, Denmark: Naturmetodens SPROG-Institut, 1954.

Violin: All-State Orchestra

Arts

Achieved 11th grade All-State Orchestra

Physical Education

Mountain biking.

World Literature

Language Arts

This course is not a survey of the world's national literatures but rather selections of literary masterpieces coming from different cultures. Students will read and analyze literary works in their social, historical, and cultural context from the Renaissance to our modern day period. The course canon is made up of essays, novels, poems, political treatises, plays, and short stories with the express aim of demonstrating how these cultures developed and how their ideas contribute to and still inform contemporary societies today.

Wilson, Douglas, Gene Edward Veith, and G. Tyler. Fischer. Omnibus V: The Medieval World. Lancaster, Penn.: Veritas Press, 2010.

Machiavelli, Niccolò. The Prince. London: Penguin Books, 1988.

Voltaire, Frédéric Deloffre, Jacques Van Den Heuvel, and Roland Barthes. Candide Et Autres Contes. Paris: Gallimard, 1992. (Writing assignments in English)

Jones, Gareth Stedman. Karl Marx and Friederich Engels: The Communist Manifesto. London: Penguin Books, 2002.

Shakespeare, William. Complete Sonnets. New York: Dover, 1991.

Orwell, George. The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1956.

Gibian, George. The Portable Nineteenth-century Russian Reader. New York: Penguin Books, 1993.

Statistics / Many-Model Thinking

Mathematics

Evidence shows that people who think with models consistently outperform those who don't. And people who think with lots of models outperform those who use only one. Models help us to better organize information. Models improve our abilities to make accurate forecasts. They help us make better decisions and adopt more effective strategies. The models covered in this class provide a foundation for future social science classes, whether they be in economics, political science, business, or sociology.
Prerequisite: Algebra

Page, Scott E. The Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You. Perseus Books Group, 2018.

"Statistics and probability." Khan Academy. Accessed August 20, 2018. https://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics-probability.

AP: US Government and Politics

Social Studies

AP U.S. Government and Politics provides a college-level, nonpartisan introduction to key political concepts, ideas, institutions, policies, interactions, roles, and behaviors that characterize the constitutional system and political culture of the United States. Students study U.S. foundational documents, Supreme Court decisions, and other texts and visuals to gain an understanding of the relationships and interactions among political institutions, processes, and behavior. They also engage in disciplinary practices that require them to read and interpret data, make comparisons and applications, and develop evidence-based arguments. In addition, they complete a political science research or applied civics project.
AP exam scheduled for 05/06/19.

"AP® US Government and Politics." Khan Academy. Accessed August 20, 2018. https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-us-government-and-politics.

Kirk, Russell. The Roots of American Order. Washington: Regnery Gateway, 1992.

Biology

Science

This course covers materials such as chemistry of life; water, acids, and bases; properties of carbon, macromolecules, energy and enzymes, structure of a cell, membranes and transport, cellular respiration, photosynthesis, cell signaling, cell division, classical and molecular genetics, DNA as the genetic material, central dogma (DNA to RNA to protein), gene regulation, biotechnology, developmental biology, bacteria and archaea, viruses, evolution and the tree of life, history of life on earth, ecology, biodiversity and conservation, behavioral biology, principles of physiology, human biology, and plant biology.

"Biology." Khan Academy. Accessed August 20, 2018. https://www.khanacademy.org/science/biology.

Latin

Foreign Language

Califf, David J. A Guide to Latin Meter and Verse Composition. London: Anthem, 2002.

Arnold, Thomas Kerchever, J. F. Mountford, and George Granville Bradley. Bradleys Arnold: Latin Prose Composition. London: Longmans, 1938.

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, and L. D. Reynolds. Dialogorum Libri Duodecim. Clarendon P., 1977.

AP: French Language and Culture

Foreign Language

The AP French Language and Culture course emphasizes communication (understanding and being understood by others) by applying the interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational modes of communication in real-life situations. This includes vocabulary usage, language control, communication strategies, and cultural awareness. The AP French Language and Culture course strives not to overemphasize grammatical accuracy at the expense of communication. To best facilitate the study of language and culture, the course is taught almost exclusively in French. The AP French Language and Culture course engages students in an exploration of culture in both contemporary and historical contexts. The course develops students' awareness and appreciation of cultural products (e.g., tools, books, music, laws, conventions, institutions); practices (patterns of social interactions within a culture); and perspectives (values, attitudes, and assumptions).
AP exam scheduled for 05/08/19.

Jensen, Arthur M. Le Français Par La Méthode Nature. Copenhagen, Denmark: Naturmetodens SPROG-Institut, 1954.

Miquel, Claire, Maia Gregoire, and Odile Thievenaz.Grammaire Progressive Du Francais, Intermediare. CLE International, 2006.

AP: US History

Social Studies

AP U.S. History is designed to be the equivalent of a two-semester introductory college or university U.S. history course. In AP U.S. History students investigate significant events, individuals, developments, and processes in nine historical periods from approximately 1491 to the present. Students develop and use the same skills, practices, and methods employed by historians: analyzing primary and secondary sources; making historical comparisons; utilizing reasoning about contextualization, causation, and continuity and change over time; and developing historical arguments. The course also provides seven themes that students explore throughout the course in order to make connections among historical developments in different times and places: American and national identity; migration and settlement; politics and power; work, exchange, and technology; America in the world; geography and the environment; and culture and society.
AP exam scheduled for 05/10/19.

Shaw, John T. Rising Star, Setting Sun: Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and the Presidential Transition That Changed America. New York ; London: Pegasus Books, 2018.

"AP® US History." Khan Academy. Accessed August 20, 2018.
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-us-history.

Violin: All-State Orchestra Auditions

Fine Arts

Physical Education

Road Cycling