Christian
Steadfast Christian Classical School is a non-denominational high school located in Canon City, Colorado. Our commitment to the classical model means that we rely heavily on the socratic method, asking students to learn rhetoric by defending their arguments in the classroom (classes are limited to 12 students each); our commitment to follow Christ means that students must ultimately reference scripture as their foundation for knowing, and must conduct themselves graciously.
Curriculum
A sophmore at Steadfast Christian Classical School will read the following works in Literature II: 20th Century
- Manalive by G.K. Chesterton
- “Alibi Ike” by Ring Lardner
- Selected Poems by Robert Frost
- “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- “Talboys” by Dorothy Sayers
- Anthem by Ayn Rand
- The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- The Plague by Albert Camus
- “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- “Fidelity” by Wendell Berry
Classical
We provide an excellent education focused on our humanities curriculum, working our way through the great books chronologically from Ancient civilization until Modernity. Students who graduate from our high school will have read Homer, Plato, the Pentateuch, Sophocles, Athanasius, Ignatius, Augustine, Beowulf, Dante, Machiavelli, Luther, Calvin, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Milton, Pascal, Rousseau, de Tocqueville, Thoreau, Dickens, Tolstoy, Chesterton, Camus, Bonhoeffer and a host of others. To see a full reading list, visit www.thegreatbooks.com.
