Faith, Reason, Culture of Life.

At Chesterton Academy, students experience the joy of Christ, an education for college and for life, a sense of camaraderie, and opportunities to learn leadership and grow in character. We do everything in our power to keep expenses low and provide an education affordable to every family, because we see Christ in every student. Discover Chesterton.

Welcome to Chesterton Academy of the Sacred Heart

CURRICULUM OVERVIEWFRESHMAN

YEAR

The Ancient World

SOPHOMOREYEAR

The Early

Medieval Period

JUNIORYEAR

High Middle Ages to the Renaissance

SENIORYEAR

The Modern World

HUMANITIES

Homer, Sophocles, Virgil, GKC: Orthodoxy

Augustine, Chaucer, Shakespeare, GKC: Ballad of White Horse, St. Francis

Dante, Shakespeare, Cervantes, GKC: St. Thomas Aquinas

Austen, Dickens, Dostoyevsky, poetry, short stories, GKC: Everlasting Man

Early Civilization, Greece, Rome

Early Church History, Early Medieval, Crusades

High Middle Ages, Renaissance, Reformation, Counter-Reformation

American Revolution, French Revolution, Civil War, Industrial Communist, Sexual Revolutions

Pre-Socratics, Intro to Plato and Aristotle, Formal Logic, Rhetoric

Plato and Aristotle Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, Early Modern Philosophy

Economics/Philosophy (Hobbes, Rousseau, Locke, Smith, Marx, GKC, Belloc)

Catechism; Old Testament

Old Testament;New Testament

CatecheticalTopics I

CatecheticalTopics II

Composition andRhetoric I

Composition andRhetoric II

Latin I Latin II Latin III or Spanish I Latin IV or Spanish II

MATH AND SCIENCE

Algebra Boot Camp, Euclidean Geometry, Analytical Geometry

Algebra II/Trig Pre-Calculus Calculus or Statistics

Physical Science Biology Chemistry Physics

FINE ARTS

Choir, Music Theory and Appreciation

Choir, Music Theory and Appreciation

Choir, Music Theory and Appreciation

Choir, Music Theory and Appreciation

Ancient Art History, Calligraphy, Drawing

Late Roman, Early European, Byzantine, Pastels, Color

Late Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Oils

Classical, Romantic, Modern, Oils, Watercolors

Full Length Play (Comedy)

Full Length Play (Drama)

Full Length Play (Shakespeare)

LITERATURE

HISTORY

PHILOSOPHY

THEOLOGY

COMPOSITIONAND RHETORIC

LANGUAGE

MATHEMATICS

SCIENCE

MUSIC

ART

DRAMA

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FINE ARTS LITERATURE

MATH

SCIENCE PHILOSOPHY

THEOLOGY

LANGUAGE

THECATHOLIC

FAITH

HISTORY

What is the Chesterton Academy model? It begins with a classical, integrated curriculum. Students read Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, Virgil, Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Teresa of Avila, Dostoyevsky. . . and G.K. Chesterton.

At Chesterton Academy, history, literature, philosophy, and theology are braided together. The sciences and the humanities are also intimately connected, so that the logic of math is seen in philosophy, and God’s handiwork is seen in the sciences.

Faith and reason meet in every class.

Equal emphasis is given to the arts, so that every student learns to draw and paint, sing in the choir, act on the stage, give speeches, and engage in debate.

Each year builds on the previous, so that by the end of senior year, we have articulate, clear-thinking, well-rounded, and, very importantly, joyful human beings.

Our rigorous and integrated curriculum prepares students for success on the SAT and ACT standardized tests.

A RIGOROUS, CLASSICAL EDUCATIONat an affordable price

COLLEGE PREP:RESULTS TO DATE

Chesterton Acad,MN Class of 2016

Nat’l AvgState of IL

28.4

21

20.8

ACT Performance Relativeto 2015 National Average

Mean ACT scores for students who have completed 3 or more years at Chesterton Academy (Class of 2016)

- Rigorous classical curriculum that prepares students for college and for life

- Daily Mass

- Affordable tuition ($4,700 for 2017-18)

- Faculty takes Oath of Fidelity to the Magisterium

- Training culture warriors - defending truth, the family, and the culture of life

- Regular and committed involvement in pro-life activities and strong ties to established pro-life organizations

- Options for sports and extracurricular activities

The mission of Chesterton Academy is to raise up a generation of joyful leaders and saints, educated in the classical tradition and the truths of the Catholic faith, abounding in the skills and character requisite for success in college and professional life as well as in building up the kingdom of God, and to excel in service of family, of country, and of Christ our Lord.

To that end we seek to form our students:

intellectually, by teaching them not only the great classics of Western thought from Plato to calculus, but the interrelationship of the great ideas, to learn not what to think but how to think;

in character, especially in the four cardinal virtues of Prudence, Temperance, Fortitude and Justice which we believe are the foundations of leadership in professional life, the family, the nation, and in the service of Christ;

and spiritually, so that they may use the skills they acquire at Chesterton Academy in Faith, Hope, and Charity, to build up the Kingdom of God in this life and be with Him in everlasting happiness in the next.

In the words of G.K. Chesterton, we seek to teach our students that “there is a whole truth of things and that in knowing and speaking it we are happy.”

An Exceptional High School Experience

Our Mission

About G.K. Chesterton

ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS NOW!

For more information contact us at:

Phone: 309-508-2155Website: chestertonacademy.orgE-Mail: chesterton.of.peoria@gmail.com

Opening in Peoria Area for Fall 2017

Chesterton Academy of the Sacred Heart is a member of the Chesterton Schools Network, a collaborative venture of Chesterton Academy and the American Chesterton Society. The mission of the Chesterton Schools Network is tohelp inspire and encourage parent-led schools across the nation offering affordable, rigorous, classical curriculum taught through the lens of the Catholic faith. Learn more at www.chestertonacademy.org.

Chesterton Academy of the Sacred Heart admits students of any race, color, national origin, and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admission policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.

Chesterton Academy of the Sacred Heart is named for the Englishman G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936), who was considered one of the world’s most outstanding men of letters in the early 20th century and its most original thinker. He was an accomplished essayist, novelist, and poet, who wrote a hundred books on all different subjects. At the beginning of the 20th century, he foresaw and addressed many of the destructive trends that have continued in our culture today. As a recognized defender of the faith, a literary genius, and a stellar example of Christian charity, Chesterton is a perfect model on which to develop an integrated education.