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Challenge B

Age 13+

Ownership Builds Discipline


Taking ownership of themselves and their work, students build a foundation of discipline that can help them work hard, think deeply, and communicate clearly while also preparing for the upper-level Challenge programs.

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Students own their own work – but not their own education.

Challenge B is a power-packed, Christian-based curriculum program where students are stretched to excel academically while engaging in activities like writing short stories for a class anthology and participating in Mock Trial. Challenge B becomes a milestone in students’ academic and personal homeschool growth. They begin the year as children and finish as young adults. Challenge B prepares students for the more rigorous course load and faster pacing of the high school-aged Challenges I through IV.

As with our other programs, parents will appreciate the support and accountability provided by their local community. Four days of traditional homeschool is supplemented by one day meeting in a group setting, allowing these teenage students to present their work and wrestle through ideas with their peers, all while being guided by a Director who helps frame these conversations in a Christian worldview.

All Great Thinkers Start Somewhere

The Six Strands of Challenge B.

Make sense of the world through the universal building blocks of math. Each week, students further their understanding in math as the conversation centers around the ideas of numbers, shapes, laws, relationships, operations, equality, and inequality. Students’ work centers around the universal math building blocks of pre-algebra.

Building on the foundation laid in Essentials and Challenge A, homeschool students continue honing the skill of learning a foreign language, with an emphasis on memorizing vocabulary, declensions, and conjugations. With time, practice, and self-discipline, Latin students develop solid study skills that transfer to other studies.

There’s so much to explore through scientific inquiry. Students have a unique opportunity to spend the year studying science using purely classical methods. This interdisciplinary, community-based approach helps students integrate hard presentation skills with the subjects of history, science, writing, math and Latin.

Students move through the classical model, from grammar, to dialectic, to rhetoric, as they study the history of astronomy. The depth and breadth of study is driven by each individual’s spirit of inquiry and willingness to seek answers to their questions. In the first semester, these young adults spend fifteen weeks researching scientists who have left a mark on modern science.

In the second semester, students spend ten weeks reading and discussing the creation/evolution debate. The last five weeks are devoted to a simple section on chemistry, in which students study how to use the periodic table and build models of atoms.

All good arguments require careful critical reasoning. The first semester is an introduction to the vocabulary and concepts of logic. Purposefully simple in scope, this semester allows students to review the vocabulary and lessons repeatedly. In second semester, students reflect on the works of featured artists and composers and consider how the arts influence and are influenced by culture. The creation of a multi-year, ongoing timeline enables students to integrate major persons and events with the art periods and philosophical ideas of the time.

The brightest minds are both investigative and inventive. This is a continuation of the literature seminar begun in Challenge A, and alternates between at-home and in-community study. In the first semester, focused on Junior Classics, students will experience the lives of many characters as they study story elements, ask good questions, and write narrative and expository stories. Through invention, arrangement, and elocution, students practice the first three canons of rhetoric.

In the second semester, students transition to the adult reading level recommended in the higher Challenges by studying short stories from various famous writers they will encounter in Challenges I–IV. At home, students take the entire semester to write a short story of their own.

During the first semester, students practice debate skills through their study of current events. Students practice thinking through both sides of an issue and choosing a position.

Students spend the second semester preparing a case to be heard in a county courthouse at the end of the semester. Taking on roles of attorneys and witnesses, students decide on the most effective way to present their case and perform it for their parents, friends, jury, and a judge. This is a highlight of the Challenge B homeschool experience.

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Laura
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I am a grandmother homeschooling my 9-year-old granddaughter who has been through a lot of trauma with both parents. The moms, Tutors and Director have truly been encouraging and most accepting of this old grandma and her granddaughter. We are going into our 5th year at CC.

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My CC community breathes flavor, energy, and structure into my homeschool. The steady support, motivation to learn perpetually, and sweet fellowship is vital to me personally and to my family.

Cecile
CC Parent

As a longtime homeschooler, you can find 350 Classically-centered curricula on the market. What sets CC apart isn’t the carefully crafted history sentences, the infectious list of pronouns the kids chant, or the way you can tweak it to be whatever you want at home. It’s the community.

Heather
CC Parent

But what about socialization? I have to admit, I heard this question a couple times when I first decided to homeschool, but most people I come across don’t ask it anymore. If they do inquire about how I keep my kids socialized, I get to tell them about the amazing community God brought into our lives with Classical Conversations.

Wendy
CC Parent

My CC Community has been an integral part of our homeschool experience. I can’t imagine being on this journey alone, as a ‘lone wolf.’ I love how CC covers aspects of homeschooling that I would not get to on my own, such as weekly science experiments and art projects, and memorizing a world history Timeline of events. CC provides a ‘one stop shop’ for all of my homeschooling needs.

Autumn
CC Parent

Community is a very valuable part of CC. What other curriculum has weekly modeling lessons for us parents?

Heather
CC Parent

Our CC family is so much more than a group of fellow homeschoolers. They are the family who can truly understand my daily struggles as a homeschooling mom. They are the family who supported me emotionally and mentally when my husband passed away. They are the family that welcomed me with open arms when we had to move out of state and join a new CC family! There is nothing comparable to our CC family. I am so truly grateful.

Janelle
CC Parent

My director and fellow parents are tutors are more than colleagues; they’re friends. I’m thankful for the support, accountability, and friendship they offer.

Melissa
CC Parent

My community is my tribe. They are an extension of my family and make a difference in my success as a homeschooler.

Niki
CC Parent

We needed accountability and a group. Then CC came to my area. I could focus on enjoying learning alongside my children! My kids flourished, recognizing the education they were receiving in a CC community was different than many of their peers.

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I was all over the place for my first six years of homeschooling. An hour into the first information meeting I went to, I was blown away. This was what I was looking for! An educational philosophy I believed in AND a roadmap to do it!

I no longer woke up from the middle of the night in a panic that I was missing something or doing something wrong. I was surrounded by parents who had a desire to educate excellently, helping me be my best. I was no longer spending energy trying to find a curriculum and support group that would work. My energy was now focused on growing as a classical learner alongside my kids.

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I was afraid to homeschool, I had family that tried it and thought, ‘If they can’t do it, how can I?’ At an information meeting, I learned CC would support me, provide a community and teach ME. Now, I’ve homeschooled two children through high school. I feel confident teaching my children hard subjects!

Krystal
CC Parent

Even as a former educator, I needed curriculum assistance and overall support from a community. I learned to relax and enjoy the children God had given me and the purpose of education.

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