Homeschooling through high school can be intimidating for families. Our hope at Capital Christian Homeschool is to help you feel confident as you enter secondary education at home.

While there is flexibility in curriculum choices for homeschooling high school, we would like to keep things simple and hit Michigan’s graduation requirements.

Our dream is to have a full rotation of high school classes (other than math) at our group, allowing freshmen to enter and complete high school curriculum in a supportive and encouraging learning community.

While a full rotation of classes is our hope, we trust God to provide willing facilitators to make this plan a reality from year to year as He sees fit.

Below are the graduation requirements that we would like students to have the ability to complete at Capital Christian Homeschool:

English Language Arts (4 Credits)

Proficient Communicators allows students to cover college and career reading, writing, and speaking standards for high school.

Each year allows the student to dig deeper into these requirements in preparation for writing beyond high school.

These classes can be listed on a transcript as:

• Composition and Speech 1
• Composition and Speech 2
• Writing, Film, and World Religions
• Journalism and Speech

Online Learning Experience

Through high school classes, students will gain experience utilizing a Google classroom.

Because ProCom (and likely other high school classes) will utilize Google classrooms, students can count these classes towards the online learning experience graduation requirement.

Health, Nutrition, and PE (1 credit)

This is NOT YOUR STANDARD HEALTH CLASS! Apologia’s Health and Nutrition class is a rigorous science curriculum. If you choose, you can count this class as both health and nutrition AND a science credit.

This curriculum touches on psychology, biology, human anatomy, and chemistry, laying a foundation for future science courses.

A small portion of this class will be devoted to physical education, allowing students to implement concepts learned in the homework and to meet the PE requirement. 

We hope to offer this class for high school every three years during the science hour. It is a great option for students who have not yet completed Algebra 2 and aren’t ready for chemistry or physics.

This class can be listed on your student’s transcript as:

• Health, Nutrition, & PE
• Survey of Psychology, Biology, Human Anatomy, and Chemistry

Science (3 credits)

For grades 9-10, we would like to offer this rotation of classes every 3 years:

• Biology 
• Health, Nutrition, & PE
• Earth, Agricultural, Forensics, Environmental, or Marine Biology

For grades 11-12, we would like to rotate the following classes:

• Chemistry 
• Physics

Social Studies (3 credits)

The following rotation of classes would cover the history and personal finance requirements:

• Government and Economics
• American History 
• World History
• Personal Finance and Career Exploration

Visual, Performing, and Applied Arts (1 credit)

Arts courses during the 4th period will rotate covering visual, performing, and applied arts.

• Worship Ministry
• Digital/Fine Arts
• Art History
• Photography

World Language (2 credits)

We like to offer language classes during the fourth period:

• Spanish 1
• Spanish 2
• ASL

At Home

Students will need to also complete 4 credits of mathematics at home to meet all the graduation requirements. 

As with other homeschool facilitated group classes, homework must be completed at home prior to class. Parents are still their student’s teachers and are responsible to assist their student and monitor work.

Grades are sometimes suggested by the facilitator for work done in class. It is the parent’s responsibility to record this and combine it with grades for the work done at home. This should then be listed on the student’s transcript.

Here is a sample transcript you can use.

Drop-Off

High school students have the unique option of being dropped off for classes. Parents must pay the required drop-off fee and sign the appropriate paperwork to take advantage of this option. 

Parents of drop-off students will also still need to monitor and facilitate the student’s work outside of class.