Saint Cassian Academy is a classical Catholic high school community in Whatcom county designed to support homeschool families. Saint Cassian was founded in 2025 by Kate Alva, a CiRCE Institute Certified Master Teacher and homeschool mom.

 

Saint Cassian Academy, in conjunction with The Evergreen Atrium, offers a robust humanities curriculum consisting of History, Literature (including epics and poetics), Writing, Latin, Apologetics, and Philosophy, all with a conservative Christian worldview. Here's the Scope and Sequence for all 4 cycles.

 

For the first part of the day, Saint Cassian students jointly study with students in The Evergreen Atrium taking core classes: Latin, Literature, Writing, and Philosophy/Logic. In the afternoon, students study a distinctly Catholic curriculum in History and Catholic Worldview/Apologetics. 

 

Courses for the 25-26 school year are as follows:

 

• History: The beginning of Christian Civilization to the Enlightenment from a Catholic Perspective

• Epics and Literature: The Iliad, all of The Chronicles of Narnia 

• Poetics: We’ll take a slow walk through Hell reading Dante’s Inferno and read Shakespeare aloud

• Writing: Students will write persuasive essays using CiRCE’s Lost Tools of Writing.

• Latin: First year Latin using Orberg’s Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata

• Logic: Kreeft's Socratic Logic, Part 1

• Worldview: Apologetics I: The Catholic Faith and Science

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