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Grade Levels Details

A thoughtful look at what students learn, how they grow, and the skills they develop at each stage.

The Vine Collective curriculum includes five subject areas.

This page offers a closer look at how learning unfolds within The Vine Collective at each grade level. While families remain the primary educators at home, our community day is designed to support students through thoughtful discussion, accountability, and shared learning—guided by a Christ-centered worldview.

The details below reflect our current plans and will grow alongside the community as additional grade levels are added.

Spiritual Development

This year will focus on the Proverbs.  Every week, students will read one proverb at home and answer a couple of reflection questions (which will change from week to week), then bring back their answers for discussion in class.  A sample question is: What is one action you can take this week to live out this wisdom? We want to walk in wisdom, and Proverbs is full of it!

Apologia’s Physical Science will be our textbook for this year.  Students will read assigned Modules at home.  Class time will be reserved for discussion and experiments.  Testing will be done at home by parents.

The history book selected for American History is one that gives the history of our country from the perspective of those who helped build it.  Whether it be the Natives or those who were enslaved, this year we turn our attention to listen to our history from the viewpoint of those whose voices are traditionally minimized.  This subject will largely consist of at home reading, in class discussion, as well as some presentations and a final project, chosen by the student from a list of options. Optional weekly quizzes will be provided for parents who would like to test their child’s reading comprehension but those will not be discussed in class.

In this Introduction to Literature course students are given a broad introduction to great works of literature across a variety of genres, including poetry, short stories, American and British novels, ancient texts, Shakespearean drama, and nonfiction. Students will practice reading closely, thinking critically, and writing clearly about what they read. Throughout the year, we will discuss how each work connects to life, character, and faith from a Christian perspective. The “Lost Tools of Writing” is the curriculum we will be using to write about some of the novels we will read.  The Grammar component will be a brief lesson on grammar basics.

As our students grow in their intellect and character, we know that it is often about teaching them how to think, not what to think.  Using “Traditional Logic 1” by Memoria Press, students will learn Logic basics.  In this 9th grade year, they will also be taught the basics of both Team Policy and Lincoln Douglas Debates, although actual debates won’t be held until the 10th grade year.