- Teacher: Adam Schmalzbauer
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- Teacher: Adam Schmalzbauer
- Teacher: Megan Simonson
- Teacher: Amelia Uppgaard
American Literature: The purpose of American Literature is to learn the concepts and ideas embodied in literature that shaped America and made her a distinct nation. Students will discuss such themes as liberty, justice, independence, happiness, sacrifice, and other concepts fundamental to the American idiom. Students will be asked to read several great works by American authors and discuss them both in class and in essay form.
- Teacher: Megan Simonson
- Teacher: Jeff Biebighauser
- Teacher: Adam Schmalzbauer
- Teacher: Jeff Biebighauser
- Teacher: Adam Schmalzbauer
- Teacher: Amelia Uppgaard
In this course, students will learn the fundamentals of solid journalistic writing, including specific techniques that will improve writing for not only publication, but for academia and the future workplace as well. Types and techniques include editing, interviewing, in-depth reporting, sports writing, editorial writing and journalism ethics. Writers and reporters from local media outlets may also give presentations. Students will hone their skills through writing exercises and assignments and will create a portfolio of their best writing. Student writing will be used to create the Providence Academy Word (PAW), the school’s online newspaper. Students will also be challenged to seek publication of one or more of their class assignments in a variety of local publications or media outlets.
- Teacher: Megan Simonson
- Teacher: Melissa Simmons
- Teacher: Thomas Jones
- Teacher: Richard Carrillo
- Teacher: Richard Carrillo
- Teacher: Melissa Simmons
- Teacher: Christopher Santer
- Teacher: Beth Wolfe
- Teacher: Hannah Iniguez
- Teacher: Michael Tiffany
- Teacher: Hannah Iniguez
- Teacher: Maggie O'Brien
- Teacher: Michael Tiffany
- Teacher: Darren Rousar
- Teacher: Christopher Santer
- Teacher: Christopher Santer
- Teacher: Christopher Santer
- Teacher: Thomas Jones
This course is designed to familiarize students with the broad outlines of European history from the Renaissance and Reformation to the present. It covers the startling religious, economic, intellectual, scientific, technological, political, artistic, cultural, ideological, and social changes that have come to shape not only Western civilization but also world civilization in general. Because so much of modern history has been dominated by Europe, and because Europeans pioneered the crucial historical processes that have since been experienced, to lesser or greater degrees, by the entire global community, this course focuses particular attention on events and developments in Europe, while at the same time trying to shed light on the changing patterns of interaction, articulation, and domination that have characterized the relationship between the nations of Europe and the rest of the world. There will be a heavy emphasis throughout the course on primary source reading as well as student writing.
- Teacher: Edward Hester
- Teacher: Kevin Keiser
- Teacher: Kelly Harrington
- Teacher: Kevin Keiser
- Teacher: Edward Hester
Economics, as a core elective for seniors, presents to the student an overview of economic theories and principles with an emphasis on the free-market, and from the perspective of economics as the study of human choice (praxeology). Various economic schools will be presented as well. The course content will be presented in a variety of ways including lecture, readings, videos, activities, etc. Students will be expected to demonstrate a proficient knowledge of the course content through both written and oral assessments, including quizzes, tests, essays, and a semester final exam.
- Teacher: Edward Hester
- Teacher: Ian Skemp
After this class you'll never ask a question like that!
- Teacher: Edward Hester
- Teacher: Edward Hester
- Teacher: Steven Firchow
- Teacher: Julie Behrens
- Teacher: Cathryn Quinn
- Teacher: Michael Tiffany
- Teacher: Steven Firchow
- Teacher: Steven Firchow
- Teacher: Diane Hagner
- Teacher: Karen Ostaffe
- Teacher: Karen Ostaffe
- Teacher: Diane Hagner
- Teacher: Julie Behrens
- Teacher: Diane Hagner
- Teacher: Cathryn Quinn
- Teacher: Michael Tiffany
- Teacher: Diane Hagner
- Teacher: Diane Hagner
- Teacher: Colleen Carron
- Teacher: Christopher Fussy
- Teacher: Christopher Fussy
- Teacher: Todd Flanders
- Teacher: Arthur Hippler
- Teacher: Kevin Keiser
This class is a survey of Catholic Theology with an emphasis on the Person of Jesus Christ, His salvific mission, the Catholic Church, and particular apologetical questions. The Catechism of the Catholic Church, Sacred Scripture, and Patristic and Scholastic writings will be utilized in order to engage students and assist them in developing a deeper relationship with their Savior.
- Teacher: Jonathon Janz
- Teacher: Arthur Hippler
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the theological foundations of the Catholic Faith as expressed in both the Apostles’ and Nicene creeds. Students will use the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Scripture, and the writings of prominent theologians to explore more deeply the Person of Jesus Christ, His salvific mission, the Catholic Church, and particular apologetical questions. A heavy emphasis is placed on the articulation of theological concepts in both spoken and written form.
- Teacher: Jonathon Janz
- Teacher: Arthur Hippler
- Teacher: Arthur Hippler
- Teacher: Anne Marie Funk
- Teacher: Kevin Keiser
- Teacher: Todd Flanders
- Teacher: Anne Marie Funk
- Teacher: Arthur Hippler
- Teacher: Kevin Keiser
- Teacher: Yvonne Boldt
- Teacher: Susan Bevington
- Teacher: Michael Plucinski
- Teacher: Elise Sheehan
- Teacher: Yvonne Boldt
- Teacher: Yvonne Boldt
- Teacher: Susan Bevington
- Teacher: Elise Sheehan
- Teacher: Susan Bevington
- Teacher: Dan Hickel
- Teacher: Michael Plucinski
- Teacher: Dan Hickel
- Teacher: Michael Plucinski
- Teacher: Michael Plucinski
Français avancé...vous êtes arrivées!
- Teacher: Martine Hegman
- Teacher: Fran Ramirez
- Teacher: Annie Heitzmann
- Teacher: Martine Hegman
- Teacher: Annie Heitzmann
- Teacher: Martine Hegman
- Teacher: Annie Heitzmann
- Teacher: Joshua Blonski
- Teacher: Jeff Biebighauser
- Teacher: Jeff Biebighauser
- Teacher: Michael Tiffany
- Teacher: Maggie O'Brien
- Teacher: Fran Ramirez
- Teacher: Fran Ramirez
- Teacher: Susan Bevington
- Teacher: Yvonne Boldt
- Teacher: Arthur Hippler
- Teacher: Michael Olson
This course is intended to help students enhance their communication skills and gain more poise and confidence in preparing and delivering a speech to an audience. These life skills are improved by practicing how to effectively organize and orally present information on various topics and in different forms to an audience.
- Teacher: Michael Olson
- Teacher: Melissa Simmons
COURSE OVERVIEW:
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elcome to 8th Grade English and Literature class! I am delighted to have you as a student! And I invite you to prepare your imaginations for a journey where we will encounter heroes, villains, the redeemed, and the fallen. Over the course of the year, you will meet classic characters (Kino, Napoleon the Pig, Scrooge, Scout, Atticus Finch, Romeo, Juliet and many more), and you will grow in your understanding of the great conversation literature presents – the conversation about what it is to be human. You can join the great conversation and, in addition, cultivate new ideas and skills that will develop you into a stronger reader, writer, speaker, and thinker.
Are you ready for the journey?
- Teacher: Michael Olson
- Teacher: Teresa Claypool
- Teacher: Michael Olson
- Teacher: Melissa Simmons
Welcome to 6th Grade English and Literature class! Prepare your imagination for a journey you will never forget. You are about to encounter primeval monsters, sail the high seas, and meet famed heroes. Over the course of the year, you will explore myths, legends and fairytales from ancient Greece, the high middle ages of Scandinavia, and the early 19th and 20th centuries of Britain and Russia. You will also develop new ideas and skills that will help you become a better reader, writer, speaker, and thinker. |
Are you ready for the journey?
- Teacher: Megan Simonson
- Teacher: Dominic Bissonette
- Teacher: Melissa Simmons
- Teacher: Melissa Simmons
- Teacher: Michael Olson
- Teacher: Michael Olson
- Teacher: Darren Rousar
- Teacher: Richard Carrillo
- Teacher: Nicole Clark
- Teacher: Beth Wolfe
The 2D Art Projects class was created to offer middle school students the opportunity for more in-depth explorations in art beyond what is covered in the CKC classes. Each quarter consists of three or four main projects focusing primarily on a range of drawing, painting and mixed-media techniques. Additional, smaller assignments will lead up to or compliment the major projects throughout the semester along with the viewing and discussion of images from art history.
- Teacher: Hannah Iniguez
Music Appreciation 7 focuses on the Romantic Era of music. The class will study the lives and the music of the composers who lived between 1800-1930, and will also study Blues and Jazz. other topics that will be covered will include: music theory, understanding the evolution from classical music to romantic music, and exploring by composing or analyzing a jazz piece.
- Teacher: Beth Wolfe
- Teacher: Christopher Santer
- Teacher: Christopher Santer
In the Music Appreciation course, students continue the study of Western music starting with the end of the Romanic Era and continuing to the present day. Students are introduced to the lives and compositional works of the world’s great classical composers from 1900-2012. In addition to studying the musical aspects of these compositions, students are exposed to the historical and cultural influences of the time. Music theory, opera, jazz, music theatre, and world music are also discussed as they relate to each time period.
- Teacher: Beth Wolfe
- Teacher: Beth Wolfe
- Teacher: Dominic Bissonette
- Teacher: Christopher Wrede
- Teacher: Kyle Rickbeil
- Teacher: Christopher Wrede
History is a record of the past. In this class we will ask: what drives human behavior? How have humans adapted and improved their societies and way of life? What causes change over time?
- Teacher: Kurt Jaeger
- Teacher: Sherry Felker
- Teacher: Sherry Felker
- Teacher: Julie Behrens
- Teacher: Cathryn Quinn
- Teacher: Michael Tiffany
- Teacher: Sherry Felker
- Teacher: Sherry Felker
- Teacher: Colleen Carron
Please read the syllabus and then click on "Practice Test" to show that you and a parent have read and understand the syllabus.
- Teacher: Christopher Fussy
- Teacher: Colleen Carron
- Teacher: Christopher Fussy
- Teacher: Colleen Carron
- Teacher: Angela Jendro
The 8th Grade Religion course will systematically examine how God reveals Himself to man. This course will examine natural revelation - what can be known about God by contemplating creation itself - and then moving to the two modes of Divine Revelation: Sacred Tradition and Sacred Scripture. Most of the course will focus on an examination of Divine Revelation as found in Sacred Scripture, showing how the Bible can be seen as one story in which the New Testament is hidden in the Old, and the Old Testament is revealed in the New. The central figure of Divine Revelation, and therefore of this course, is Jesus Christ.
- Teacher: Jonathon Janz
- Teacher: Teresa Claypool
- Teacher: Angela Jendro
- Teacher: Stacy Paulsen
- Teacher: Dominic Bissonette
- Teacher: Dominic Bissonette
- Teacher: Dan Hickel
- Teacher: Rachel Fogle
- Teacher: Joshua Blonski
- Teacher: Kaitlin Pfiffner
- Teacher: Annie Heitzmann
- Teacher: Kaitlin Pfiffner
- Teacher: Maggie O'Brien
- Teacher: Kaitlin Pfiffner
To access the updated roster of peer tutors, click here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AB-ELQVLjfzcAkYIluMURuS0eU-8IS9BIplpgZiC7f4/edit?usp=sharing
- Teacher: Jeff Biebighauser
- Teacher: Joshua Blonski
- Teacher: Anne Marie Funk
- Teacher: Martine Hegman
- Teacher: Annie Heitzmann
- Teacher: Arthur Hippler
- Teacher: Sarah Hogan
- Teacher: Jonathon Janz
- Teacher: Kevin Keiser
- Teacher: Maggie O'Brien
- Teacher: Cathryn Quinn
- Teacher: Fran Ramirez
- Teacher: Adam Schmalzbauer
- Teacher: Elise Sheehan
- Teacher: Michael Tiffany
- Teacher: Yvonne Boldt
Providence Academy Upper School Math League
- Teacher: Steven Firchow
- Teacher: Elise Sheehan
- Teacher: Bridget Taylor
The go to place for information regarding
- Auditions for M/US Play Productions
- Fine Art Field Trips
- Coffee House Concerts
- Teacher: Dominic Bissonette
- Teacher: Ann-Marie Killion
- Teacher: Melissa Simmons
Student Ambassadors (including FIT Members) are a group of dynamic students, representative of the diversity within our student body, who are able to balance the demands of an academic workload with the requirements of the Student Ambassador program. Student Ambassadors are able to maintain athletics, arts, and other extra-curricular commitments over and above classes and the Student Ambassador program. Student Ambassadors may take on several duties during the academic year to assist Admissions in attracting new students to PA.
- Teacher: Michael Plucinski
- Teacher: Adam Schmalzbauer
This is the "go-to" spot for information about the 8th grade DC Trip
- Teacher: Dominic Bissonette
- Teacher: Bridget Taylor
- Teacher: Christopher Wrede
- Teacher: Claire Roden