The Gateway Academy is a certified two year college preparatory academy focusing on Philosophy, the Classics,
Literature and the Performing
Arts in Yuma, Arizona.

The Gateway Academy
"Filling the void in Modern education!"

  The Gateway Preparatory Academy is a dynamic academic milieu where form the first day, pre-college students join and take part in something very exciting--the "Great Conversation." 
  Beginning with a systematic introduction to Philosophy and using the Socratic method: a careful reading and carefully guided discussion of great Classics, students will learn how to think, how to write (essays, fiction, and poetry), how to conduct a conversation, and how to recognize false reasoning. In addition, for year two, some students will enter our Theater Program and study the "Great Conversation" in Theatre and film.
  Students successfully completing this two-year course of traditional learning will have a singular advantage over those whose learning is limited by the constraints placed upon the general curriculum offered in most modern educational institutions.

  Year One
Semester I: Introduction to Ideas - A systematic discussion of the basic Theories of "Knowledge and Reality," and an introduction to the intellectual Journal.

Semester II: Classics - Continued reading and critical discussion of great world literatures, and continued work in the intellectual Journal.

  Year Two: "A" Program
Semester III-A - Literature in English: Reading and critical discussions of essays, short fiction, and poetry, from English and American authors, and introducing the writing of fiction and poetry.

Semester IV-A - World Literature: Continued reading and discussion of great literatures from Spain, Italy, Japan, China, Germany, South American, etc.

  Year Two: "B" Program
Semester III-B- Performing Arts: Continuing the Great Conversation through the study of dramatic works including film, and training in stagecraft (artistic presentation, breathing, diction) through the performance of soliloquies and selected scenes from dramatic works.

Semester IV-B - Acting: The continuation of semester III-B, plus a live performance of one great play, and the continuation of the Intellectual Journal.