Mr. Hockel and Ms. Yeh created a joint humanities and art assignment where students were to create a visual representation of the Shield of Achilles. Students were to depict 3-5 scenes from Book 18 of the Iliad, where Homer describes in detail the shield…
In the last month our students have grown immensely in their thought and their habits. Pouring over Plato and hammering out Homer have kept them busy as they ask questions over telos and join the Greeks in their search for meaning. Concurrently, our students have been mapping the stars and learning the patterns of thought and reality in their geometry class…
My dear ones,
It brings me great pleasure to write to you about this endeavor that we have undertaken, this great work that God has set out before us: the building of the first Catholic high school in Northern Colorado. This effort is the culmination of decades of devotion to Christ, and we, His fortunate and humble servants, have been tasked with the cultivation of His school and the Church Militant in this, our home.
Therefore, if the family is the Domestic church, then we can say that the liturgy of the Domestic church is the family meal. The family meal is perhaps the most overlooked and undervalued asset that the family possesses.
For those of you looking for something to do over the summer (and over quarantine), we have compiled a list of texts at the recommendation of our staff and some affiliates. These texts vary from the Great Books to simply good texts remembering the spirit of Chesterton who had said that he had read a number of great books, but that he wished he had read more good ones. For those of you who embark on the challenge, enjoy your reading!
So what, then, is classical education? Classical education is a chronologically synchronous education which, following the trivium, aims to develop the student in their ability to be a critical thinker such that they can enter into their cultural heritage, and thereby better understand their own lineage.
For five days in August of 1993, Colorado was aflame with the love of the Church. His Holiness, Pope John Paul II came to World Youth Day in Denver, and its impact has resonated upon the state and her denizens for decades after—many of us who live in Colorado (especially those lucky enough to have attended the event) were drawn irrevocably closer to the heart of Christ at witnessing the momentous occasion.
The desire that Catholic families in northern Colorado had displayed for nearly 40 years is now becoming a reality with the opening of the Chesterton Academy of St. John Paul II in Windsor in the Fall of 2020.
The selected candidate will teach the following to an inaugural 2020-2021 9th-grade class: Euclid’s Elements; analytical geometry; astronomy; and earth sciences/geology.