A rich curriculum taught with purpose.

A curriculum is more than a list of books. It is an ordered path through knowledge, skills, stories, and ideas. Veritas uses Memoria Press as a mainstay because its coherent classical Christian curriculum builds strong foundations, prizes mastery, and gives students increasingly sophisticated tools for learning.

The Memoria Press foundation

Memoria Press organizes the traditional liberal arts around language and mathematics and gives sustained attention to the history and literature of the Christian West. In the early years, that means explicit foundations in phonics, reading, handwriting, spelling, grammar, composition, and arithmetic. Across the grades, students develop knowledge cumulatively instead of beginning again with disconnected themes each year.

Published materials support our teachers; they do not replace them. Teachers select, pace, explain, question, review, and adapt instruction for the students before them while preserving the coherence and rigor of the course of study.

Latin is central—not ornamental

Veritas teaches Latin as a substantial, continuing part of a classical education. Latin strengthens English vocabulary and grammar, develops precision and sustained attention, and opens a door to the language, history, literature, theology, and intellectual inheritance of the West.

Memoria Press’s Latin sequence is designed to develop real command of vocabulary, forms, syntax, and translation through deliberate, step-by-step study. Students memorize, recite, analyze, translate, and apply what they know. The goal is not a collection of Latin phrases; it is disciplined mastery that supports reading, writing, reasoning, and future language study.

Language, literature, and composition

Students learn to read accurately before they are expected to read quickly. They encounter worthy stories, poems, speeches, myths, histories, and works of Christian imagination. Grammar and composition give them the means to understand how language works and to express their own ideas with order and clarity.

Mathematics and science

Mathematics is taught as an ordered language that rewards accuracy, practice, and understanding. Science begins in attentive observation of the created world and grows into increasingly organized study, vocabulary, measurement, explanation, and wonder.

History, geography, and the arts

History and geography give students a shared chronology and a sense of place. Music and art train attention, imitation, skill, and delight in beauty. These subjects are not extras; together they help students recognize the human story and understand the world they have been given to inhabit.

Distinctly Lutheran formation

Veritas supplements its classical curriculum with Lutheran resources and practices chosen for fidelity to Scripture and the Lutheran Confessions. Students study Scripture and Luther’s Small Catechism, learn the church’s hymns and prayers, and hear the faith taught through the distinction of Law and Gospel. These are not ancillary in importance: they give the school day its center and purpose.

How students learn

• Attention: listening, observing, and reading with care
• Memory: retaining vocabulary, facts, forms, Scripture, poetry, and song
• Imitation: learning from excellent models before pursuing independence
• Practice: returning to important skills until they become dependable
• Reason: comparing, distinguishing, questioning, and supporting conclusions
• Expression: speaking and writing truthfully, clearly, and graciously

Specific books and course placement may vary by grade and student readiness. Families are invited to visit Veritas and discuss the current course of study with our school team.