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 Summer 2019: science & Language arts — CANCELLED
BLEND PREP: Summer Sessions for Young Teens
Gearing up for high-school-level work
Our schedule for these summer sessions mimics that of The Blend: students meet twice per week for one onsite class and one online class.
Each course is substantive, with students acquiring both —
- in-depth knowledge — topics will vary with each particular course but may include anything from scientific reasoning to Elizabethan verse, from understanding the biosphere to grasping the basics of atomic structure;
- skills vital for high-school-level work — skills like taking lecture notes, close reading & annotation, lab skills, and more.
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SESSION 1 — CANCELLED
Tuesdays & Fridays, May 14 – June 28, 2019
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SESSION 2 — CANCELLED
Tuesdays & Fridays, July 9 – August 23, 2019
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Instructor: Diane Speed
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Instructor: Diane Speed
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Instructor: Roy Speed
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Instructor: Roy Speed
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For details of class schedule, course content and objectives,
course fees, and more, please see below.
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SESSION 1: — CANCELLED
Ecology
Instructor: Diane Speed
Tuesdays |
on site |
11:00 am – 12:30 pm |
Fridays |
online |
9:00 – 10:00 am |
To register a student, click here:
 This course will provide in-depth information and labs on a number of essential topics — among them:
- Populations
- The Food Chain
- Biomes
- Chemical Cycles: Water, Carbon and Nitrogen Cycles
- Humans and the Biosphere
Students will be expected to complete approximately 2 – 3 hours of homework each week. Homework consists of reading, annotating text, watching videos, completing worksheets, and studying.
Also, a final test is provided to parents to administer at home as they wish—open-book, closed-book, as a learning tool, as a grade generator, or some combination of these.
Cost: $375.00 + $20.00 materials fee
Materials: Students must purchase the following text:
Your student will also need a three-ring binder, with loose leaf paper and section dividers.
SESSION 1: — CANCELLED
Reading Non-Fiction
Instructor: Roy Speed
Tuesdays |
on site |
9:45 – 10:45 am |
Fridays |
online |
10:30 – 11:30 am |
To register a student, click here:
 Students in this course will read a wide variety of non-fiction prose—types of writing they may have seldom, if ever, read. Among them:
- news articles
- feature articles
- editorials
- essays
- excerpts from non-fiction books
The aim of this course is twofold:
- to deepen and strengthen students' reading skills;
- to enlarge their awareness of different topics and different types of interesting writing.
In each session, students will be instructed in close reading of fine writing. The instructor will coach the students on both —
- content — perceiving nuances, shifts of tone; discerning key ideas; noticing effective writing or rhetorical devices; and more;
- tracking their own reading experience — noticing, for instance, where they got confused or lost, or whether they simply "went out to lunch" at any point (started thinking about something else), and then, most important, figuring out why.
The objective behind such coaching is to transform the students into active, self-aware readers.
Cost: $325.00 + $25.00 materials fee
Materials: All materials are provided by the instructor.
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SESSION 2: — CANCELLED
Introduction to Chemistry
Instructor: Diane Speed
Tuesdays |
on site |
11:00 am – 12:30 pm |
Fridays |
online |
9:00 – 10:00 am |
To register a student, click here:
 This course will provide in-depth information and labs on a number of essential topics — among them:
- Atomic structure
- The Periodic Table: Representative Groups & Families
— Metals, Halogens, Noble Gases, Alkali Metals
- Bonding
- Radioactivity
Students will be expected to complete approximately 2 – 3 hours of homework each week. Homework consists of reading, annotating text, watching videos, completing worksheets, and studying.
Also, a final test is provided to parents to administer at home as they wish—open-book, closed-book, as a learning tool, as a grade generator, or some combination of these.
Cost: $375.00 + $20.00 materials fee
Materials: Students must purchase the following text:
Your student will also need a three-ring binder, with loose leaf paper and section dividers.
SESSION 2: — CANCELLED
Shakespeare's Comedy
Instructor: Roy Speed
Tuesdays |
on site |
9:45 – 10:45 am |
Fridays |
online |
10:30 – 11:30 am |
To register a student, click here:
 This course will provide an
introduction to Shakespeare and, in particular, to his comedies through the reading of Twelfth Night.
In this course, students will learn essential background on:
- Shakespeare's life and works;
- the Elizabethan theater;
- Elizabethan wordplay;
- blank verse/iambic pentameter;
— and more.
They will also be taught to grapple with Shakespeare's 400-year-old language and humor. — In the process, they will be amazed at Shakespeare's achievements.
Students will be expected to complete approximately 2 – 3 hours of homework each week. Homework may consist of close reading, annotating text, memorization of Shakespeare's verse, and watching scenes from Shakespeare productions on video.
Cost: $325.00
Materials: Students must purchase the following text:
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