Integrated Humanities
Integrated humanities trains students to read history, literature, and Scripture as a single unfolding story, grasping not just what happened but what people loved, worshiped, and built. The whole school studies one historical cycle together each year, beginning with the Ancient cycle from creation through first-century Rome, so that every student shares in one great conversation about the world God is making.
Latin (Primary E and up)
Latin sharpens memory, grammar, and precision while handing students the key to the classical and Christian inheritance beneath Western civilization. We teach it through Picta Dicta, which pairs each word with an image rather than a translation list, because a language learned concretely is remembered and loved rather than merely memorized.
Music
Music forms students into music-makers rather than music-consumers, training the voice, ear, body, and imagination together. We use the Kodály approach because God made a singing world and commands His Church to sing, and because it meets children where they naturally begin before growing them into real musical literacy.
Art
Art teaches students to see the world symbolically and biblically, reading stones, altars, temples, and cornerstones as the God-given signs they are. Our first-year course, "The Rock of Our Salvation," traces the ancient era from Creation to Constantine through more than thirty great works, because craftsmanship is a calling before God and the gospel triumphs over every pagan darkness.
Logic (Secondary Prep)
Logic equips students to think clearly, define their terms, and tell truth from faulty reasoning, which is the groundwork of honest and persuasive speech. We introduce our secondary prep students to Canon Press's Introductory Logic because a Christian must reason well to love God with the mind and defend the truth with charity.
Grammar and Writing
We want students to excel in communication and to know that every word matters, so grammar and writing grow together throughout their years at TCA.
Grammar
Grammar teaches students to handle language with care and precision, knowing that every word matters in loving God and neighbor well. We use the Well-Trained Mind's cyclical program and weave it through our humanities, so that grammar is applied and absorbed across everything they study rather than learned and forgotten.
Writing
Writing forms students into clear, ordered thinkers who can shape their thoughts and persuade with truth. We build from the Institute for Excellence in Writing into the ancient progymnasmata, integrated across history, literature, and Bible, because writing should grow out of everything a student is learning.
Spelling/Phonics
Spelling and phonics give students the inner logic of English, so that they read and spell by understanding rather than by memorizing. We use Spell to Write and Read (SWR) because a student who grasps how words actually work becomes a confident reader who can decode anything on his own.
Geography
Geography grounds everything students learn in history and literature in the physical reality of the world God made. Their journey runs from "blob mapping" the continents in kindergarten to drawing the whole world from memory, every country and capital, by their secondary prep years, because knowledge takes root when the hand and the eye learn together.
Science
Science leads students to observe, experiment, and reason their way into the order and wonder of God's creation rather than merely memorize facts. We use Berean Builders because it follows the historical unfolding of discovery in step with the eras students study in humanities, weaving science into the larger story of civilization.
Mathematics
Mathematics teaches students not merely what to think but how to think, building deep understanding, number sense, and disciplined problem-solving. We use Singapore Math's mastery approach because slowing down to reason carefully helps students see the order and beauty God has woven into creation.