e-course classes & Descriptions
We are pleased to provide these high quality, educational courses in an on-line format.
What is an E-Course?
An E-Course is an Enhanced On-line course. It offers the family much more than just video instruction. It is designed to give an integrated experience for the student, providing clear over-arching concepts that govern the lesson, biblical focus, an opportunity to discuss the major ideas together with others, and help for the parents to evaluate the student’s work.
What is included:
Summary for each Lesson
Introductory Video for each Lesson
Instructional Videos (32 lessons)
Weekly Homework Assignments
Downloadable Handouts
Parent Handbook with Tests and Quizzes, Answer Keys and Tips for Evaluating all other Homework Assignments, as well as other helpful materials.
sample videos
Mid High Lesson Introduction Sample Video
Earth Science & Geology Sample Video
mid-high literature year 1
Students study complete classics in Literature. The five key elements of literature, plot, setting, theme, style, and character are evaluated in each work. Wonderful principles from God’s Word are instilled through the trials and triumphs of the characters. Students and parents alike enjoy reading the classics.
The recommended editions correspond to the page numbers referenced in the instructional videos and assigned vocabulary. If not available, any edition can be used. We also reference chapters and sections in the book.
Required Course Materials:
Men of Iron by Howard Pyle, unabridged, Dover Publications, 2018
Silas Marner by George Eliot, Barnes & Noble Classic, 1996
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, Folger Edition, 1992
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott, Bantam Classic, 2006
mid-high history year 1 : ancient HISTORY
History focuses on the key people and events through which we see God’s Hand and purpose. Students read and take notes with an emphasis on understanding the ideas and movements behind the events. We begin with the beginnings of history as recorded in Genesis and move through the Renaissance. Instruction about research and organizing a research paper is given, and each student researches and writes a research paper on a topic of their interest. Map work is also a significant part of the program as the students learn the geography associated with each historical period studied.
required course materials:
Textbook:
Textbook: History of the World in Christian Perspective, A Beka Books, 4th edition
mid-high science year 1: Human Anatomy & Oceanography
Science reveals the intricate design, order, and diversity of the Creation. This year we have the pleasure of looking at the human body in detail, studying each system. You will marvel at how “fearfully and wonderfully we are made.” In oceanography, we will focus on the physical environment, including the ocean bottom, ocean features, sea water composition and ocean currents. The plants and animals that make up this delicate balance are also part of our study. Dissections are also included in the biweekly Zoom meetings. Latin & Greek roots are also a part of the program and help with learning scientific vocabulary.
Required Course Materials:
Life Science for Christian Schools, Bob Jones University Press, 2nd edition
Earth Science for Christian Schools, Bob Jones University Press, 2nd Edition
HIGH SCHOOL EARTH SCIENCE AND GEOLOGY
This course consists of an earth science semester focused on general topics such as water, weather, land formations and creation science. The second semester is a detailed study of general geology including landforms, mineralogy, fossils and rock structures.
Required Course Materials:
Textbook: Earth and Space Science Abeka Book.
The Geology Book by John D. Morris, PhD. 2004.
Geology by John Kinzer, 2020
HIGH SCHOOL EARTH SCIENCE & GEOLOGY LAB
In addition to the regular HS Earth Science & Geology E-course, we are also holding a Special Lab Option! If you are enrolled in our regular e-course and live locally, you won’t want to miss this!
The tentative time for Earth Science and Geology is odd weeks Tuesdays 9:30-11:30 am.
Required Course Materials:
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HIGH SCHOOL BRITISH LITERATURE 1
British Literature 1 covers from the Ango-Saxon period to the Neoclassical period. The emphasis is on literary analysis and understanding literature from a biblical worldview. The following complete works will be studied as well as poetry and shorter works that represent each period.
Required Course Materials:
Beowulf (translation by Burton Raffel)
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Idylls of the King by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Once and Future King by T. H. White
King Lear by William Shakespeare
A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt
Paradise Lost by John Milton
HIGH SCHOOL American HISTORY
This class is a chronological study of the development of American heritage. Emphasis is on the discovery and exploration, the Christian values and thinking, creation of a new nation, development of a culture, and an understanding of America’s role as a world leader. The Biblical principles used as the foundation for the American government are stressed for their important role in American thought. America’s distinctiveness and individuality from other nations and their founding principles is analyzed and evaluated. Worksheets and reports are completed for each of the outside readings listed below.
Required Course Materials:
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington
The Autobiography & Other Writings by Benjamin Franklin
Great Speeches by Abraham Lincoln
The Declaration of Independence
Seven Men Who Rule the World from the Grave by Dave Breese
Textbook:
United States History : Heritage of Freedom, A Beka Books
high school american history lab
In addition to the regular HS American History E-course, we are also holding a Special Lab Option! If you are enrolled in our regular e-course and live locally, you won’t want to miss this!
The tentative time for American History is even weeks Tuesdays 9:30-11:30 am
required course materials:
Textbook:
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ALGEBRA 1
This course covers all that is expected in a good first year Algebra Course, including evaluating expressions, solving equations and mastering word problems. Skills include working with quadratic equations, polynomials, radicals, exponents, ratios and inequalities. The key elements that set RGES mathematic courses apart are the clear and extensive explanations and the volume of example problems shown step-by-step on the instruction videos. In addition, every problem from the homework is worked out on the video tapes with additional oral explanation whenever it seems needed. This is an extraordinary course, designed to have all the student will need for success in an on-line math program.
Required Course Materials:
Algebra I by Paul A Foerster, Classics Edition.
ALGEBRA 2
This course covers functions and relations, solving linear and quadratic functions, exponential and logarithmic functions, as well as both rational and irrational functions. It continues with higher degree functions, complex numbers and trigonometric functions. It lays a thorough foundation for higher mathematics. The key elements that set RGES mathematic courses apart are the clear and extensive explanations and the volume of example problems shown step-by-step on the instruction videos. In addition, every problem from the homework is worked out on the video tapes with additional oral explanation whenever it seems needed. This is an extraordinary course, designed to have all the student will need for success in an on-line math program.
Required Course Materials:
Online Open Source textbook (free)
link provided at the start of class
MID HIGH LITERATURE - year 2
Students study complete classics in Literature. The five key elements of literature, plot, setting, theme, style, and character are evaluated in each work. Wonderful principles from God’s Word are instilled through the trials and triumphs of the characters. Students and parents alike enjoy reading the classics.
Required Course Materials:
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
MID HIGH SCIENCE - year 2: Physical science & zoology
Science reveals the intricate design, order, and diversity of the Creation. We study many elements of Astronomy, Physics, machines, and physical laws. The study of Zoology focuses on animals: insects, mammals, arthropods, birds, fish, and amphibians.
Required Course Materials:
Matter & Motion in God’s Universe, A Beka Book
Life Science for Christian Schools, Bob Jones University Press, 2nd edition
Earth Science for Christian Schools, Bob Jones University Press, 2nd Edition
MID HIGh history - year 2: modern history
History focuses on the key people and events through which we see God’s Hand and purpose. Students read and take notes with an emphasis on understanding the ideas and movements behind the events. We begin with the Renaissance and move through the Reformation and into the Enlightenment. A study of the Modern Age with the World Wars and the period up to the present concludes the class. Students are taught how to prepare classroom presentations and a speech. Instruction about research and organizing a research paper is given, and each student researches and writes a research paper on a topic of their interest.
Required Course Materials:
Textbook: History of the World in Christian Perspective
Martin Luther: The Great Reformer by J. A. Morrison
MID HIGH LITERATURE - year 3
Students study complete classics in Literature. The five key elements of literature, plot, setting, theme, style, and character are evaluated in each work. Wonderful principles from God’s Word are instilled through the trials and triumphs of the characters. Students and parents alike enjoy reading the classics.
Required Course Materials:
Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare, Folgers Edition
MID HIGH SCIENCE - year 3: Geology & botany
Science focuses one semester on Geology and the basic concepts of volcanism, sedimentary deposition, and metamorphism. The impact of igneous intrusion, folding and faulting of rock layers, and the effect of water and wind erosion including stream and beach erosion as well as glacial action is developed in this course. Students will be able to recognize many of the basic rocks and minerals as well as using topographic maps and recognizing topographic features. Botany is the focus of the other semester. Students will learn about plant life and the importance of plants in the interactions with the ocean and land regions or biomes. Leaf recognition and tree study are particular areas of focus. Students will develop a leaf collection and an understanding of taxonomy and the binomial nomenclature system.
Required Course Materials:
Life Science for Christian Schools, Bob Jones Univ. Press, 2nd edition
Earth Science for Christian Schools, Bob Jones Univ. Press, 2nd edition
Handbook of Nature Study, Comstock (recommended only)
MID HIGh history - year 3: American history
History focuses on the key people and events through which we see God’s Hand and purpose. Students read and take notes with an emphasis on understanding the ideas and movements behind the events. We begin with the exploration by the European settlers and continue to the present time. A study of the Modern Age with the World Wars and the period up to the present concludes the class. Students are taught how to prepare classroom presentations and a speech. Instruction about research and organizing a research paper is given, and each student researches and writes a research paper on a topic of their interest.
Required Course Materials:
America Land I Love, A Beka Book
The Journals of Lewis & Clark, edited by John Bakeless
George Whitefield, God’s Anointed Servant in the Great Revival of the Eighteenth Century, by Arnold Dallimore
Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
HIGH SCHOOL biology & optional on-site lab add-on
Biology is a general survey of all living things. Nature is revealed as the orderly and purposeful creation of God. Representatives of all the major phyla are discussed and studied with the arrangement of the course beginning with plants then covering human anatomy and concluding with animals. The focus of the course is on the magnificent variety, individuality, and design of the living creation. Emphasis is placed on the systems, functions, appropriate vocabulary, dissection, field observation and collection, and lab techniques. A special emphasis on desert plants and animals is given in the course.
(Purchase the optional lab component on the E-Course Store Page)
Required Course Materials:
Textbook: Biology: God’s Living Creation, A Beka Books
All Lab Materials will be provided for the Optional Lab Add-on
High School Physical Science & optional on-site Lab add-on
This course comprehends general science and physical science in God’s Creation. Students are introduced to chemistry, physics, mineralogy, machines, force, as well as a study of the Periodic Table, the elements, energy, light, electricity, and an introduction to hydrocarbons. Classroom demonstrations and hands on lab work accompany the notes and classwork.
Textbook:
The Physical World: An Introduction to Physical Science, by Hadaway, Hurd, Jenkins and Mulfinger, Bob Jones University Press, Greenville, South Carolina.
High School American Literature
In American Literature, the student continues to analyze literature based upon the five elements of plot, setting, theme, character, and style. The student studies great classic works from each period as well as the authors that have most shaped our literary heritage. Class papers and discussion focus on learning to evaluate the characters and themes of each work, with a special emphasis on comparing the work with biblical ideas and principles. We also gain insight into the specific characteristics of the national American identity including what Americans value, their strengths, and their weaknesses. As in every year of the RGES literature program from grades 6 through 12, we also include a play from Shakespeare.
Required Course Materials:
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Billy Budd by Herman Melville
Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Yearling by Marjorie Rawlings
American Literature (Scribner Literary Series)
high school British literature 2
In British Literature 2, the student continues to analyze literature based upon the five elements of plot, setting, theme, character, and style. The student studies great classical works. Class papers and discussion focus on learning to evaluate the writers and their philosophy of life. Effort is also made to compare an author’s worldview to Biblical ideas and principles.
Required Course Materials:
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Adam Bede by George Eliot
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
High School American Government and Economics & optional on-site Lab add-on
The class studies the foundational roots of American government from the ideas developed in the Magna Carta, the Mayflower Compact, the English Rights of Man. The colonial charters and constitutions reveal American government is a result of a number of factors each of which emphasized the Biblical idea of man and government and moved men to greater religious and civil liberty. An extensive study of the US Constitution is included. Our government study includes state government as well as national government. One semester is devoted to the study of socialism and capitalism and the economic principles of free enterprise. Free enterprise is a fruit or result of a biblical worldview.
Assigned Reading:
Decision in Philadelphia: The Constitutional Convention of 1787 by Christopher Collier and James Collier
The Federalist Papers various essays) by Jay, Madison, and Hamilton
Field Trip to the state Capitol, visits with Committees at work, Representatives
Stewarding the Earth: A Biblical View of Economics by Stephen McDowell
Textbook:
The Christian History of the Constitution of the United States of America: Christian Self-Government by Verna M. Hall
Teacher’s Notes on American Government and Economics
The Key to the Constitution of the United States, Patriotic Education Incorporated by Henry Watson
Economics by Carper, Bradley & Payne, BJU Press
HIGH SCHOOL MODERN HISTORY
Modern History offers the second half of World History from approximately 1500 AD to the present and focuses on the major nations and movements which have shaped modern thinking and culture. The major theme of how the Reformation and religious freedom birthed political and civil liberty is related to the different events. Each student is instructed in making a class speech and researching and writing a research paper. The formal research paper at the end of the year answers a thesis statement of interest to the student and integrates information from the course.
Required Course Materials:
The Prince by Machiavelli
Hudson Taylor by J. Hudson Taylor
Seven Men Who Rule the World from the Grave by David Breese
Foxe’s Book of Martyrs by John Foxe
Textbook: Streams of Civilization, Vol 2 by Garry Moes, Christian Liberty Press 1995.