Mr. Stephen c. Batchelder
Co-founder,
Director of School Operations

Contact

sbatchelder@madisonprep.org
480-345-2306 ext 221

online classes

All Latin students:  All links to lectures and assignments will be done through this page.  Please check this page each day, Monday-Friday.  All Latin students will definitely need your textbook.  If you have not yet picked it up from school, please let me know so we can figure out a time for you to do so.  If you have questions about content or assignments (or anything at all), please send them to my email address, which is sbatchelder@madisonprep.org.  Please clearly identify yourself when emailing me.  I will check my emails on a frequent and regular basis, and then I will do my best to answer your questions sufficiently.   

Tenth grade Drama students:  I had hoped that we would perform a play this spring, but that is now no longer possible.  Total bummer.  Anyway, we will pivot and have an online class that is centered around the history of theater.  There will be no textbook.  Links to lectures and theatrical performances will be found on this page.  Please check this page each day, Monday-Friday.   If you have questions about content or assignments (or anything at all), please send them to my email address, which is sbatchelder@madisonprep.org.  Please clearly identify yourself when emailing me.  I will check my emails on a frequent and regular basis, and then I will do my best to answer your questions sufficiently.  

latin

LATIN 3 - 10th Grade
All tests will be open notes/open book, so there will be no vocabulary section on the tests.  Tests will only consist of translating Latin into English.  I still encourage you to make flash cards for the new vocabulary words and study your flash cards daily.
For March 30th through April 1st:  Read Chapter 7 thoroughly.  The chapter is about 3rd declension nouns, which are trickier than the first two declensions.  So again, read thoroughly.  Watch the video on Chapter 7 by clicking on this link.  Translate Exercitationes 1-10.  Email me your translations to sbatchelder@madisonprep.org by Wednesday at 11:59 pm.  Please clearly identify yourself when you email me.
If you have questions, please email me at sbatchelder@madisonprep.org.  I will check my email several times each day until 5:00 pm, and I'll answer your questions as best I can.  Please clearly identify yourself when you email me. 

LATIN 6 - 11th Grade
All tests will be open notes/open book, so there will be no vocabulary section on the tests.  Tests will only consist of translating Latin into English.  I still encourage you to make flash cards for the new vocabulary words and study your flash cards daily.
For March 30th through April 1st:  Read Chapter 16 thoroughly.  The chapter is about 3rd declension adjectives, which are very similar to 3rd declension nouns with respect to the endings, so this chapter shouldn't be terribly difficult.  Nevertheless, read the chapter thoroughly.  Watch the video on Chapter 16 by clicking on this link.
​Translate Exercitationes 1-11.  Email me your translations to sbatchelder@madisonprep.org by Wednesday at 11:59 pm.  Please clearly identify yourself when you email me.
If you have questions, please email me at sbatchelder@madisonprep.org.  I will check my email several times each day until 5:00 pm, and I'll answer your questions as best I can.  Please clearly identify yourself when you email me.

drama

Our class will be a study in the history of theater.  After a brief overview of theater from the 6th century B.C. through the Renaissance (some of which we covered in 8th grade Drama two years ago), we will look more closely at Elizabethan theater (Shakespeare), the beginnings of modern theater (Ibsen), 20th century American theater (Miller), and the American Musical.  This class will consist mostly of videos, on which you should take good notes.  All tests will be open note tests, so taking good notes will have a direct impact on your test scores.  
Over the next three days (Monday, 3/30 - Wednesday, 4/1) you need to watch the following several videos, the links of which you'll find below.  Most of these videos are short.  The first few are summaries of theatrical eras, starting with ancient Greece and ending with the Elizabethan era.  The last video is longer and a more thorough examination of Elizabethan theater.  Enjoy the videos!
Ancient Greek Theater click here
Roman Theater click here
Liturgical Theater click here
Medieval Theater click here
Italian Renaissance Theater click here
Elizabethan Theater click here
Elizabethan Theater extended length click here

If you have questions, please email me at sbatchelder@madisonprep.org.  I will check my email several times each day until 5:00 pm, and I'll answer your questions as best I can.  Please clearly identify yourself when you email me.

One last thing - I miss you guys.  I hope you all are staying healthy and socially distant.  I am so sorry about losing our 10th grade play, but maybe someday we will figure out a way to make it right.  In the meantime, good luck with all your online classes this term.  I can't wait until we're all able to be back on campus and back to normal.  Cheers!

 

 
Years teaching and administrating at JMPS:  Since the beginning. (2000-2001, i.e., 19 years) 
Before JMPS:  I owned and ran a retail toy store (The Toy Chest) in Minnesota and concurrently owned and ran a commercial leasing company (Audax, Inc.). Before that I worked at a hotel in Minneapolis.  I have worked as a bookkeeper, a movie theater cashier, a sales worker for R.J. Reynolds, a little league baseball coach, a youth football coach, a youth ice hockey coach, a youth baseball umpire, and a youth baseball league commissioner.
Educational History:    B.A. in history from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.  1986.
Courses taken in radio broadcasting at Brown Institute in Minneapolis.
High School diploma - Faribault Senior High School, Faribault, Minnesota. 1982.
Activities involved with in college:    Four Years Intercollegiate Baseball (Captain in Senior Year), One Year Campus Newspaper (Sports Columnist), Three Years Gregorian Chant Group (Schola Cantorum)
Activities involved with in high school:    Varsity Baseball, Varsity Ice Hockey, Theater, Orchestra, Yearbook, Speech
Educational Philosophy:    I believe in small schools and small classes.  I believe in a traditional education with a particular emphasis on American history and government.  I believe in closed campuses, orderly classrooms, dress codes, full school days, and full school years.  I believe in a positive, upbeat, and busy school campus.  I believe high school is a place where young people should explore a wide variety of traditional subjects and extracurricular opportunities; college is where specialization should begin.  And I believe that school should emphasize good character just as much as strong academics.  I agree with Teddy Roosevelt, who said, “To educate a person in mind and not morals is to educate a menace to society.”
Hobbies:    Reading nonfiction – particularly history, biography, and philosophy
Lifelong sports fan – particularly baseball, football, basketball, golf, and tennis.  Playing the piano.  I enjoy a wide variety of music including classical, ragtime, classic rock, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, some jazz, R & B, and, of course, show tunes.  I guess I like pretty much everything except country western and rap.
Favorite Movie:    “The Sting” starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and Robert Shaw.
Favorite Books:    “Witness” by Whittaker Chambers; “The Road to Serfdom” by Friedrich von Hayek; “Patton.  A Genius for War” by Carlo D’Este; "The Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell; "The Razor's Edge" by W. Somerset Maugham; "Act One" by Moss Hart; "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis; "Eat Bacon, Don't Jog" by Grant Petersen; "Good Calories, Bad Calories" by Gary Taubes.