Chasing the Sun

Curated High School Tracks

Mission: To save the world through a new, holistic form of education rooted in beauty - of the heart, mind, body, soul.

A New Way to Grow

Personalized Experiences for Every Student

Holistic education involves not only learning of one’s past through academic courses, nor even a trade through networks of students in a rooted in real-life experience, and thus real-life results as well.

Like a flash flood after the roots of native plants have been scorched by man-made wildfire

On the surface there are two types of civilization: those rooted in Man and those rooted in Principle. In reality, all men worship something, whether they recognize it or not. These are called assumptions. Priorities. Biases. Morality.

Holistic education involves not only learning of one’s past through academic courses, nor even a trade through networks of students in a rooted in real-life experience, and thus real-life results as well.

The Trifunctional Hypothesis argues for the existence

Into What We Grow

  • Warrior

    Those embodying Aurelia’s Principles of Holistic Vitality and Transparent Influence, who deal with death to protect a society’s health: soldiers and police officers; firefighters and EMTs; doctors, trainers, body guards, and military spies.

  • Yeoman

    Those embodying Aurelia’s Principles of Re-Territorialization and Communal Sovereignty, who use their hands to build and maintain a society’s home: farmers and miners; carpenters and plumbers; accountants, seamstresses, coders, and engineers.

  • Priest

    Those embodying Aurelia’s Principles of Catholic Mysticism and Aesthetic Beauty, who explore the unknown to guide a society both culturally and morally: priests and poets; authors and artists; teachers, mystics, painters, and philosophers.

The Four Tracks

Prioritizing Student Priorities

Guild (Trades, Agriculture, Finance)

  • ELOQUENCE
    Summer Reading:
    - The Picture of Dorian Gray
    Independent Reading:
    - Dangerous Liaisons
    - Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
    - Pilgrim's Progress
    - The Princesse de Clèves
    - The Dialogue of the Dogs
    Drama:
    - A Midsummer Night’s Dream

    INQUIRY
    - Chemistry Textbook

    MEASUREMENT
    - Geometry Textbook

    CIVICS
    - World History I Textbook
    - World History II Textbook

    AESTHETICS
    - Art History I Textbook
    - Art History II Textbook

    LANGUAGE II
    - Latin Textbook

    + 1 ELECTIVE
    - Anatomy & Physiology Textbook

  • ELOQUENCE
    - Choose an ethnic canon to read and study for this year

    INQUIRY
    - Physics Textbook

    MEASUREMENT
    - Algebra II Textbook

    + 4 ELECTIVES
    - Vehicle Maintenance Textbook
    - Arts & Crafts Textbook
    - Computers & Programming Textbook
    - Botany Textbook

  • ELOQUENCE
    - Choose a second ethnic canon to read and study for this year

    MEASUREMENT
    - Accounting
    - Statistics

    +5 ELECTIVES
    - Electrical Systems Textbook
    - Sales & Marketing Textbook
    - Woodworking & Carpentry Textbook
    - Home Economics Textbook
    - Water & Plumbing Textbook

Research (Health, Technology, Research)

  • ELOQUENCE
    - Choose an ethnic canon to read and study for this year

    INQUIRY
    - Physics Textbook

    MEASUREMENT
    - Algebra II Textbook

    + 4 Electives:
    - Meteorology Textbook
    - Botany Textbook
    - Computers & Programming Textbook
    - Healthcare Textbook

  • ELOQUENCE
    - Choose a second ethnic canon to read and study for this year

    MEASUREMENT
    - Calculus

    +5 Electives:
    - Astronomy Textbook
    - Geology Textbook
    - Psychology Textbook
    - Statistics & Probability Textbook
    - Physics Textbook

Order (Military, Law, Corrections)

  • ELOQUENCE
    - Choose an ethnic canon to read and study for this year

    INQUIRY
    - Physics Textbook

    MEASUREMENT
    - Algebra II Textbook

    + 4 ELECTIVES
    - Military History Textbook
    - Criminal Justice Textbook
    - Computing & Programming
    - Anatomy & Physiology Textbook

  • ELOQUENCE
    - Choose a second ethnic canon to read and study for this year

    MEASUREMENT
    - Statistics
    - Calculus

    +5 ELECTIVES
    - World Geography Textbook
    - Military Strategies Textbook
    - Home Economics Textbook
    - Vehicle Maintenance Textbook
    - Psychology Textbook

Letters (Art, Politics, Religion)

  • SCHEDULE

    ELOQUENCE
    - Choose an ethnic canon to read and study for this year

    INQUIRY
    - Physics Textbook

    MEASUREMENT
    - Algebra II Textbook

    + 4 ELECTIVES
    - Military History Textbook
    - History of Philosophy Textbook
    - Music Theory Textbook
    - The Catholic Bible (Old Testament)

  • SCHEDULE
    ELOQUENCE
    - Choose a second ethnic canon to read and study for this year

    MEASUREMENT
    - Accounting
    - Statistics

    +5 ELECTIVES
    - Cinema Textbook
    - Comparative Religions Textbook
    - Creative Writing Textbook
    - Drama Textbook
    - The Catholic Bible (New Testament)

Suggested Schedule

Students should aim to study via a block-based schedule, in which subjects are divided between

Monday

  • Eloquence (English)

    Linguistics (Language)

    Civics (U.S. History)

    Civics (Government)

  • Measurement (Math)

    Inquiry (Science)

    Linguistics (Language)

    Civics (Economics)

Tuesday

  • Eloquence (English)

    Linguistics (Language)

    Civics (U.S. History)

    Aesthetics (Art)

  • Measurement (Math)

    Inquiry (Science)

    Linguistics (Language)

Wednesday

  • Eloquence (English)

    Inquiry (Science)

    Measurement (Math)

  • Measurement (Math)

    Inquiry (Science)

    Linguistics (Language)

Thursday-Friday

  • Eloquence (English)

    Inquiry (Science)

    Measurement (Math)

  • Measurement (Math)

    Inquiry (Science)

    Linguistics (Language)

Ethnic Canons

Restoring Heritage through Education

European Literature

Choose an ethnicity to study during Junior-Senior year

    1. The Iliad, Homer, 750 BC

    2. The Odyssey, Homer, 740 BC

    3. The Theogony, Hesiod, 700 BC

    4. Oresteia & Prometheus Bound, Aeschylus, 458 BC

    5. Theban Cycle, Sophocles 400 BC

    1. Bellum Civile, Caesar, 40s BC

    2. Metamorphoses, Ovid, 8

    3. Aeneid, Virgil, 19

    4. Meditations, Marcus Aurelius, 161

    5. Confessions, St. Augustine, 397

    1. Mythological Cycle, N/A, 700s

    2. Ulster Cycle (Táin Bó Cúailnge), N/A, 750

    3. The Voyage of Saint Brendand, N/A, 800

    4. The Book of the Taking of Ireland, N/A, 1000s

    5. War of the Irish with the Foreigners, N/A, 1000s

    6. Tristan and Iseult, N/A, 1100s

    7. The Fenian Cycle (Tales of the Elders) N/A, 1200

    1. History of the English People, Bede, 731

    2. Beowulf, N/A, 800s

    3. The Brut, Layaman,

    4. Le Morte d’Arthur, Thomas Malory,

    5. Piers Plowman, William Langland, 1370

    6. Historia regum Britanniae, Geoffrey of Monmouth, 1136

    7. Poetry, Pearl Poet, 1300s

    1. Song of Roland, N/A, 1000s

    2. Arthurian Romances, Chretien de Troyes, 1100s

    3. Letters of Abélard and Héloïse, Abélard, 1133

    4. Chronicles of the Crusades, Jean Joinville, 1212

    5. Romance of the Rose, Lorris & Meung, 1230-75

    1. Poem of the Cid, N/A, 1207

    2. Tales of Count Lucanor, Juan Manuel, 1335

    3. Prison of Love, Diego de San Pedro, 1485

    4. Tirant Lo Blanc, N/A, 1490a

    5. La Celestina, Fernando de Rojas, 1499

    1. Onega Bylinas, Giljferding, 1871

    2. The Primary Chronicle, N/A 1115

    3. Kievan Chronicle, N/A, 1200s

    4. Galician-Volhynian Chronicle, N/A, 1200s

    5. Dynastic Chronicle of Romanovichi, N/A 1400s

    6. Tale of Igor's Campaign, N/A, 1400s

    7. The Bronze Horseman & Eugene Onegin, Alexander Pushkin, 1830s

    1. Amadis of Gaul, Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, 1508

    2. The Lusiad, Luís Vaz Camões, 1572

    3. Cancioneiro Geral, Garcia de Resende, 1500s

    4. Book of Yearnings, Bernardim Ribeiro, 1520s

    5. Palmeirim de Inglaterra, Francisco de Moraes, 1500s

    1. Hildebrandslied, N/A, 830

    2. The Song of the Nibelungs, N/A, 1200

    3. Parzival, Wolfram Eschenbach, 1200

    4. Weisskunnig, Maximilian I, 1501

    5. Book of Heroes (Heldenbuch), N/A, 1500s

    6. Faust, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1808

    1. Travels, Marco Polo, 1300

    2. The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri, 1321

    3. Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio, 1349

    4. Poetry, Petrarch, 1300s

    5. Morgante, Luigi Pulci, 1478

    6. Orlando in Love & Orlando Furioso, Matteo Boiardo & Ldovico Ariosto, 1495-1516

    1. Kalevala & Kanteletar, Elias Lönnrot, 1835, 1840

    2. The Tales of Ensign Stål, Johan Runeberg, 1848

    3. The Song of the Blood-Red Flower, Johannes Linnankoski, 1869

    4. Seven Brothers, Aleksis Kivi, 1870

    5. Meek Heritage, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, 1888

    1. The Tale About the Horse, Olof von Dalin, 1740

    2. The People of Hemsö, August Strindberg, 1887

    3. The Charles Men, Verner Heidenstam, 1897

    4. The Red Room, August Strindberg, 1879

    5. Gösta Berling's Saga, Selma Lagerlöf, 1891

    1. Ynglingatal, Þjóðólfr of Hvinir, 800s

    2. Hákonarmál & Háleygjatal, Eyvindr Finnsson, 900s

    3. Passion and miracles of Blessed Olaf, N/A, 1120

    4. The saga of Þiðrekr of Bern, 1250

    5. Arnljot Gelline, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, 1800s

    1. The Saga of the Volsungs, N/A, 1000

    2. Heimskringla, N/A, 1200s

    3. The Prose Edda, Snorri Sturluson, 1220

    4. Laxdæla Saga, N/A, 1245

    5. The Poetic Edda, N/A, 1270

    6. Njal’s Saga, N/A 1280

    1. Reynard the Fox, Willem, 1250

    2. The Flower of Nature, Jacob van Maerlant, 1263

    3. Beatrijs

    4. Charlamagne and Elbegast, N/A, 1200s

    5. Seven Ways of Holy Love, Beatrice of Nazareth, 1200s

    1. History of Kings of Britain, Geoffrey of M., 1136

    2. The Life of Merlin, Geoffrey of M., 1150

    3. Dream of Rhonabwy, N/A, 1200s

    4. Y Gododdin, N/A, 1200s

    5. The Mabinogion, N/A, 1400s

    1. Lion of Flanders, Hendrik Conscience, 1838

    2. Legend of Thyl, Charles De Coster, 1867

    3. The Belgian, Camille Lemonnier, 1888

    4. Under the Robe, Eugène Demolder, 1897

    5. Fairy Tales, Hans Christian Anderson, 1835

    6. Pallieter, Felix Timmermans, 1916

    1. White Book of Sarnen (William Tell), Hans Schriber, 1474

    2. The Short Chronicle, Jeanne de Jussie, 1500s

    3. Genève Délivrée, Samuel Chappuzeau, 1701

    4. Green Henry, Gottfried Keller, 1855

    5. The King of Bernina, Jakob Heer, 1900

    1. The Brus, John Barbour 1375

    2. Liber Pluscardensis, N/A, 1461

    3. Deeds of William Wallace, Harry, 1476

    4. Ane Godlie Dream, Elizabeth Melville, 1603

    5. Poems of Ossian, James Macpherson, 1772

World Literature

Choose an ethnicity to study during Junior-Senior year

    1. Analects, Confucius

    2. Tao de Ching, Lao Tzu,

    3. Art of War, Sun Tzu,

    4. Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Guanzhong Luo, 1300s

    5. The Water Margin, Shi Naian, 1370

    6. Journey to the West, Wu Cheng’en, 1592

    1. Kojiki; or, Records of Ancient Matters, Ō no Yasumaro, 711

    2. Japanese Chronicles, Prince Toneri, 720

    3. Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, N/A, 900

    4. The Tale of Genji, Murasaki Shikibu, 1001

    5. The Tale of the Heike, N/A, 1200s

    6. Essays in Idleness, Urabe Kenkō, 1330

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    1. Bhagavad Gita, N/A 500 BC

    2. Mahābhārata, Vyasa, 400 BC

    3. Meghadūta, Kālidāsa, 400 BC

    4. Ramayana, Valmiki, 200BC

    5. Kumārasambhava,Kālidāsa, 400s AD

    6. Tales from Kathasaritsagara, Somadeva, 1070 AD

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    1. The Jewish War, Flavius Josephus 75

    2. Commentary, Rashi 11th

    3. Guide for the Perplexed, Maimonides 12th

    4. Babylonian Talmud 770

    5. Sefer Hasidim, Rabbi Judah of Regensburg 13th

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Educational Games

Learn subjects via competition, cooperation, and fun

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