Lighthouse Academy
SCHOLAR PROJECTS
(not all projects are offered every year)
JUNIOR PROGRAM - UP TO AGE 12
The Junior Program is a parent-run program and is for homeschooled children under 12 years of age. The goal of the Junior Program is for our children to have a place to interact with other sweet kids and be exposed to the fun of learning about all the wonderful things in the world alongside friends. The Junior Program operates based on the philosophies of leadership education as taught in the book A Thomas Jefferson Education by Oliver DeMille, and promotes a Christian worldview. The Junior Program functions as the younger half of the commonwealth, Lighthouse Academy Scholar program, for kids 12 and up, and serves as a funnel into that group for those families who desire to continue on. The Junior Program is not a drop-off group.
Key of Liberty - Ages 12+
Key of Liberty is a two-semester Practice Scholar level project studying America's founding period, specifically the American Revolution and the United States Constitution. Students learn through lectures, writing opinion papers, giving presentations, memorization, field trips, debate, simulations, and reading. Books and document studies focus on biographies of the Founding Fathers as well as original documents.
GEORGICS - AGES 13+
Georgics is a Practice Scholar project. The purpose of Georgics is to give students the tools to take ownership of their own education by studying the principles of Georgics: providence, self-validation, mission, land ownership, community stewardship, local interdependence, and entrepreneurialism. Scholars become homesteaders and take charge of their own education and their lives.
SHAKESPEARE CONQUEST - AGES 12+
Shakespeare Conquest is an amazing, two-semester Practice Scholar project that inspires students to study the works of the greatest poet-philosopher of all time. During the first semester, students study a Shakespeare tragedy in depth through weekly reading assignments, in-class discussions, and opinion papers. Other assignments include memorization and giving a presentation on an Elizabethan era topic. During the second semester, students will have several weeks of actor’s training while studying one of Shakespeare’s comedies. Then they delve into Shakespeare even further by preparing and performing the play they just studied.
SWORD OF FREEDOM - FALL SEMESTER
HERO PROJECT - SPRING SEMESTER
AGES 12+, PREFERABLY AFTER COMPLETING KEY OF LIBERTY
SWORD: This one-semester, Transition-to-Apprentice-Scholar project provides students an exciting look into one of the most interesting periods of our nation’s history: the Civil War Era.
HERO: This one-semester, Transition-to-Apprentice-Scholar project is designed to empower our current Hero Generation to form a link to the Hero Generation of World War II. We do an intensive study on the leaders, and learn the difference between true leaders and demagogues.
PYRAMID PROJECT - AGES 13+
This is a Transition-to-Apprentice-Scholar project. The purpose of the first semester of Pyramid Project is to provide an atmosphere where the characteristics of a scientist are developed, truth is sought after and recognized, logic and reason are developed, and the desire to study math and science, along with the ability to do so, becomes a life-long habit.
QUEST I, II, & III - AGES 14+
Quest is an Apprentice Scholar project. It is a two-year course for students 14 years and older. In Quest, our goal is to learn to read like a lawyer, write like an author, speak like an orator, and think like a philosopher. Through Quest, students will awaken their sense of personal mission and ignite their passion to pay the price for a great education. The mentor takes students through the study of great leadership in history, using original documents and intensive essay and research writing.
CLASSICAL ACTING - AGES 14+
This is a two-semester Apprentice Scholar project for scholars who have had two years of Shakespeare Conquest. Exceptions can be made for youth 15+ with permission from the class mentors if the scholar has completed one year of Shakespeare and has a private audition. This class hones the skills developed in Shakespeare. We'll be studying plays from different time periods giving the scholars an understanding of the history of drama.
FAMILY FOUNDATIONS - ADULTS
Family Foundations is a two-semester adult project that brings together the adults in the community to grow in their own scholarship and mentor one another in the principles of a leadership education. As parents develop their understanding of a leadership education, they will be empowered to identify the needs of each child in their family and be inspired to fulfill those needs.