- Teacher: Meghan Milovich
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- Teacher: Camero Harris
- Teacher: Meghan Milovich
- Teacher: Adam Schmalzbauer
- Teacher: Jeff Biebighauser
In this course, students will learn the fundamentals of solid journalistic writing, including specific techniques that will improve writing for not only publication, but for academia and the future workplace as well. Types and techniques include editing, interviewing, in-depth reporting, sports writing, editorial writing and journalism ethics. Writers and reporters from local media outlets may also give presentations. Students will hone their skills through writing exercises and assignments and will create a portfolio of their best writing. Student writing will be used to create the Providence Academy Word (PAW), the school’s online newspaper. Students will also be challenged to seek publication of one or more of their class assignments in a variety of local publications or media outlets.
- Teacher: Meghan Milovich
- Teacher: Adam Schmalzbauer
- Teacher: Melissa Simmons
- Teacher: Thomas Jones
- Teacher: Dominic Bissonette
- Teacher: Annie Tillotson
- Teacher: Darren Rousar
- Teacher: Christopher Santer
- Teacher: Beth Wolfe
- Teacher: Christopher Santer
- Teacher: Christopher Santer
- Teacher: Christopher Santer
- Teacher: Thomas Jones
- Teacher: Mike Guardia
This course is designed to familiarize students with the broad outlines of European history from the Renaissance and Reformation to the present. It covers the startling religious, economic, intellectual, scientific, technological, political, artistic, cultural, ideological, and social changes that have come to shape not only Western civilization but also world civilization in general. Because so much of modern history has been dominated by Europe, and because Europeans pioneered the crucial historical processes that have since been experienced, to lesser or greater degrees, by the entire global community, this course focuses particular attention on events and developments in Europe, while at the same time trying to shed light on the changing patterns of interaction, articulation, and domination that have characterized the relationship between the nations of Europe and the rest of the world. There will be a heavy emphasis throughout the course on primary source reading as well as student writing.
- Teacher: Edward Hester
- Teacher: Kevin Keiser
- Teacher: Ian Skemp
- Teacher: Edward Hester
- Teacher: Ian Skemp
- Teacher: Jaime Myrold
- Teacher: Nathan Wentz
The fundamental purpose of the Geometry course is to introduce students to formal geometric proof and the study of plane figures, culminating in the study of right triangle trigonometry, circles and three-dimensional figures. Students begin to prove results about the geometry of the plane by using previously defined terms and notions. Similarity is explored in greater detail, with an emphasis on discovering trigonometric relationships and solving problems with right triangles. This course uses the Big Ideas Math Geometry textbook. Students will investigate, conjecture, validate, generalize, extend, connect, communicate and reflect upon mathematical ideas.
- Teacher: Claire Roden
- Teacher: Michael Gerads
- Teacher: Tim Connors
- Teacher: Colleen Carron
- Teacher: Dan Piper
- Teacher: Jeff McMillan
Political theory analyzes the meaning and significance of fundamental concepts in politics.
Starting from such basic concerns as the nature of politics, humans, power and justice, political theorists explore how these basic starting assumptions organize the laws, practices, and institutions of political and social order.
In this introductory course, students will investigate some of the basic texts in political theory, with the goal of learning how to read texts more analytically and to address fundamental questions in political theory.
This course reads a wide selection of historical texts from Plato to Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
- Teacher: Arthur Hippler
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the theological foundations of the Catholic Faith as expressed in both the Apostles’ and Nicene creeds. Students will use the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Scripture, and the writings of prominent theologians to explore more deeply the Person of Jesus Christ, His salvific mission, the Catholic Church, and particular apologetical questions. A heavy emphasis is placed on the articulation of theological concepts in both spoken and written form.
- Teacher: Jonathon Janz
- Teacher: Arthur Hippler
- Teacher: Arthur Hippler
- Teacher: John Lewin
Earth and Space Science is an introduction to the formation and geological history of Earth, its climate, and its place in the universe. Semester 1 will focus on Earth, its geology, history, and atmosphere. Semester 2 will widen our gaze and explore the vastness of space that our planet inhabits, discussing our solar system, our galaxy, and finally our universe. Students will have regular homework, tests, and projects throughout the year.
- Teacher: Ashley Hettwer
- Teacher: John Lewin
- Teacher: John Lewin
- Teacher: Kevin Keiser
- Teacher: Michael Plucinski
- Teacher: Yvonne Boldt
- Teacher: Michael Plucinski
- Teacher: Elise Sheehan
- Teacher: Yvonne Boldt
Biotechnology and MSR2
- Teacher: Yvonne Boldt
- Teacher: Michael Plucinski
- Teacher: Gina Unger
- Teacher: Gina Unger
- Teacher: Elise Sheehan
- Teacher: Linda Hoekman
- Teacher: Michael Plucinski
- Teacher: Annie Heitzmann
- Teacher: Fran Ramírez
- Teacher: Annie Heitzmann
- Teacher: Annie Heitzmann
- Teacher: Annie Heitzmann
- Teacher: Kaitlin Pfiffner
- Teacher: Kaitlin Pfiffner
- Teacher: Jeff Biebighauser
- Teacher: Michael Tiffany
- Teacher: Detsy Donohue
- Teacher: Fran Ramírez
- Teacher: Fran Ramírez
Welcome to 6th Grade English and Literature class! Prepare your imagination for a journey you will never forget. You are about to encounter primeval monsters, sail the high seas, and meet famed heroes. Over the course of the year, you will explore myths, legends and fairytales from ancient Greece, the high middle ages of Scandinavia, and the early 19th and 20th centuries of Britain and Russia. You will also develop new ideas and skills that will help you become a better reader, writer, speaker, and thinker. |
Are you ready for the journey?
- Teacher: Ashley Croteau
- Teacher: Megan Simonson
- Teacher: Melissa Simmons
- Teacher: Megan Simonson
This course is intended to help students enhance their communication skills and gain more poise and confidence in preparing and delivering a speech to an audience. These life skills are improved by practicing how to effectively organize and orally present information on various topics and in different forms to an audience.
- Teacher: Michael Olson
COURSE OVERVIEW:
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elcome to 8th Grade English and Literature class! I am delighted to have you as a student! And I invite you to prepare your imaginations for a journey where we will encounter heroes, villains, the redeemed, and the fallen. Over the course of the year, you will meet classic characters (Kino, Napoleon the Pig, Scrooge, Scout, Atticus Finch, Romeo, Juliet and many more), and you will grow in your understanding of the great conversation literature presents – the conversation about what it is to be human. You can join the great conversation and, in addition, cultivate new ideas and skills that will develop you into a stronger reader, writer, speaker, and thinker.
Are you ready for the journey?
- Teacher: Michael Olson
- Teacher: Ashley Croteau
- Teacher: Megan Simonson
- Teacher: Annie Tillotson
- Teacher: Annie Tillotson
- Teacher: Darren Rousar
- Teacher: Darren Rousar
- Teacher: Kelsey Wessels
- Teacher: Nicole Clark
- Teacher: Darren Rousar
Music Appreciation 7 focuses on the Romantic Era of music. The class will study the lives and the music of the composers who lived between 1800-1930, and will also study Blues and Jazz. other topics that will be covered will include: music theory, understanding the evolution from classical music to romantic music, and exploring by composing or analyzing a jazz piece.
- Teacher: Abigail Spichke
- Teacher: Beth Wolfe
History is a record of the past. In this class we will ask: what drives human behavior? How have humans adapted and improved their societies and way of life? What causes change over time?
- Teacher: Barbara Hunter
- Teacher: Christopher Wrede
- Teacher: Hannah Wegner
- Teacher: Christopher Wrede
- Teacher: Jaime Myrold
- Teacher: Michael Mrugala
- Teacher: Tim Connors
- Teacher: Hannah Wegner
- Teacher: Colleen Carron
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- Teacher: Colleen Carron
- Teacher: Colleen Carron
- Teacher: Beth Lasseter
- Teacher: Anne McCulloch
The 8th Grade Religion course will systematically examine how God reveals Himself to man. This course will examine natural revelation - what can be known about God by contemplating creation itself - and then moving to the two modes of Divine Revelation: Sacred Tradition and Sacred Scripture. Most of the course will focus on an examination of Divine Revelation as found in Sacred Scripture, showing how the Bible can be seen as one story in which the New Testament is hidden in the Old, and the Old Testament is revealed in the New. The central figure of Divine Revelation, and therefore of this course, is Jesus Christ.
- Teacher: Beth Lasseter
- Teacher: Eric Duffy
- Teacher: Dominic Bissonette
- Teacher: Dominic Bissonette
- Teacher: Gina Unger
- Teacher: Eric Duffy
- Teacher: Ashley Hettwer
- Teacher: Ashley Hettwer
- Teacher: Detsy Donohue
- Teacher: Fran Ramírez
- Teacher: Fran Ramírez
- Teacher: Kaitlin Pfiffner
- Teacher: Sarah Keller
- Teacher: Kaitlin Pfiffner
- Teacher: Angie Mahoney
- Teacher: Dominic Bissonette
- Teacher: Elise Sheehan
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- Teacher: Dominic Bissonette