COLLEGE PROGRAM

Program overview...

Expectations:

• Mission Days Orientation  

• Individual academic and college planning meetings 

• SCOIR account and career interest assessments 

• CLT 10 and PSAT practice exam in October and in March

• College readiness night for parents and students in the fall 

• CASS Academic Planning and College Counseling Guidebook

• Semester in review reflection at the end of each semester

• Individual academic planning meetings for 10th grade

• Monthly college counseling newsletters ?   

Program overview...

Expectations:

• Mission Days Orientation  

• Individual academic and college planning meetings 

• Access to college representative visits 

• College fair

• Group seminars

• SCOIR account and career interest assessments 

• CLT 10 and PSAT practice exam in October and in March

• College readiness night for parents and students in the fall 

• CASS Academic Planning and College Counseling Guidebook

• Summer Program Fair in December

• Semester in review reflection at the end of each semester

• Individual academic planning meetings for 11th grade

• Monthly college counseling newsletters ?   

• Intraterm local college campus tours

Program overview...

Expectations:

• Mission Days Orientation  

• Multiple individual academic and college planning meetings 

• Access to college representative visits 

• College fair 

• Group seminars

• SCOIR, Prompt, and College Kickstart accounts and career interest assessments 

• CLT 10 and PSAT exam in October and in March

• College readiness night for parents and students in the fall 

• CASS Academic Planning and College Counseling Guidebook

• Summer Program Fair in December

• Semester in review reflection at the end of each semester

• Individual academic advising meetings and course planning meetings

• College application essay workshops and individualized guidance 

• ACT Practice exam in February

• Common App Boot Camp in February

• College kick off night in the spring

• Monthly college counseling newsletters ?   

• Intraterm local college campus tours

Program overview...

Expectations:

• Mission Days Orientation  

• Multiple individual academic and college planning meetings 

• Access to college representative visits 

• College fair 

• Group seminars

• Senior College night for parents and students in the fall 

• CASS Academic Planning and College Counseling Guidebook

• Semester in review reflection at the end of each semester

• Individual academic advising meetings and course planning meetings

• College application essay workshops and individualized guidance 

• Monthly college counseling newsletters ?   

The study of a foreign language is required of all students for three years. All students are required to take two years of Latin and then go on to choose Latin III or Spanish.  Greek, Italian and French may also be options depending on demand and teacher availability. Because students may have already studied a foreign language before they arrive at the school we try, as much as possible, to place them in the correct level right from the start, regardless of their grade.

Music appeals to the ear and the mind, the emotions and the intellect, the senses and the spirit. Chesterton Academy students are exposed to a wide variety of music that they perform chorally several times a year. An education at Chesterton includes music theory, performance, ear training, note reading, and musical analysis. Music history is taught according to the grade level with an emphasis on music development within the Church, and corresponds to the historical period in which the students are immersed. Students perform in grade-level choirs and in the all-school choir at choir concerts, Masses, and The Chesterton Gala.

A complete education must include the development of the creative nature and must provide students with the tools and the technique with which to express their ideas, their feelings and their love. It must also include the analytical skills with which to judge a work of art and exposure to great art. Finally, the mechanical skills and the aesthetic aptitude must be put into the proper context of eternal Truth. A good artist is a complete thinker and vice versa. The influence of the arts in today’s society cannot be overstated, and this is why art is mandatory at Chesterton Academy all four years.

The dramatic arts are particularly powerful in our present culture where movies and the media are often the primary source of knowledge and ideas for many young people. Drama involves the study of how words are brought to life, and in order to successfully do this on stage the actor must learn to see the work as a whole, to understand the author’s vision and the time in which it was written. In other words, the actor must learn to be a good literary critic, philosopher, and historian. Drama ties together the information students learn in the classroom and asks them to actively participate in its performance.