Challenge IV

“Challenge IV students sink their teeth into ancient writings of Homer, Virgil, and Hesiod, as well as modern writings of Lewis, Zacharias, and Leithart.

In the first semester, students survey the Old Testament and highlight the poetry of Scripture through a study of the Psalms.

They translate The Aeneid from Latin into English through Henle, while translating creation into number through math and physics.

Students read some of the past’s greatest writers, as well as contemporary works; they create, consider, and converse; debate, discuss, and digest the good, the true, and the beautiful.

The optional senior thesis is a capstone project, combining all the classical skills of rhetoric acquired by the student into a final original persuasive work that is defended publicly before a panel.

Challenge IV crowns the Challenge years by contemplating duty, honor, and leadership across the ages and into our own day” (classical conversations.com, 2021)..