Challenge II

“Challenge II leads students to weigh the value and impact of choices executed by literary figures and heroes, historical leaders, artistic greats, and other persons of influence.

Students study the flow and development of ideas that shaped Western thought and culture and how they have led to twentieth-century thinking.

British literature, Latin 2, traditional logic, algebra and geometry, Western cultural history, and biology provide the academic core.

Advances in language skills, research, writing, dialogue, and debate continue as Challenge II moves into a more rhetorical format than earlier Challenges. Elocution or “style” in written and oral presentations gains importance as students learn and practice new types of rhetorical skills, including persuasive, impromptu, and debate presentations” (classical conversations.com, 2021).