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Academic Center
Sample Lesson Plans
Our flexible format allows you to fully customize your child's summer education. In the Full Program, students attend every session (14 hours/week) and are exposed to a wide range of interesting topics and useful academic skills. In the Half Program (7 hours/week) students still practice communication and writing skills, but the frequency of meeting is less.
During a typical block in either seminar section, students utilize a number of different skills, such as listening, discussing, analyzing, writing, reading, and presenting.
Listed below is the format for the Effective Communication Strategies: Discussion, Methods of Persuasion, and Public Speaking Skills section:
During a typical block in either seminar section, students utilize a number of different skills, such as listening, discussing, analyzing, writing, reading, and presenting.
Listed below is the format for the Effective Communication Strategies: Discussion, Methods of Persuasion, and Public Speaking Skills section:
| Time | Activity | Skill & Justification |
| 10 min | Introduce Speaker and Topic | An instructor, guest speaker, professor, or expert will introduce the topic of the day, including the historical context, present situation, and global ramifications. Emphasis at this point of the lesson is to get the students interested and excited about learning more. |
| 35 min |
Presentation | Presentation of the day's topic, utilizing multi-sensory teaching techniques. |
| 15 min |
Q & A |
Students have an opportunity to ask questions regarding the presentation or the guest speaker's background. |
| 10 min |
Break | - - - |
| 25 min |
Instructor-led brainstorming session |
Before students break into presentation teams, the instructors lead a class brainstorming session, focusing on essential questions, major implications for our lives, and possible solutions to the problem. Students will also receive instruction on their assignment for the day. |
| 35 min |
Group work on Proposal / Presentation |
Each day, students will be expected to create a proposal, the guidelines of which are related to the presentation of the day. For example, if the presentation was on high stakes testing, students would create a proposal for a bill for education reform. Each proposal is presented and debated at the end of the session. At this point, instructors circulate and provide individual instruction as needed. |
| 10 min |
Break | - - - |
| 45 min | Group Presentations | Students deliver and evaluate their presentations. |
| 15 min | Peer Review and Evaluation | Feedback is essential to improving communication and presentation skills. At the conclusion of each session, students receive feedback from both their peers and their instructors. |
Listed below is the format for the Written Composition: Interpreting Multiple Viewpoints section.
| Time | Activity | Skill & Justification |
| 20 min |
Introduce primary writing skill for the day | At the outset of each writing session, students learn a new writing skill that is the main focus of the lesson. Examples of primary writing skills are: brainstorming, developing defendable thesis statements, writing introductions and conclusions, topic sentences, varying complex sentence structures, eliminating passive voice, citations, quotations, editing, and polishing. |
| 30 min |
Group Practice | In small groups led by instructors, students practice the skill of the day with structured templates and handouts. |
| 10 min |
Short Break |
- - - |
| 25 min |
SAT Essay Prompt | Students receive a writing prompt from a former SAT exam and have 25 minutes to complete a first draft. Students are exposed to the exact format and testing conditions of the SAT exam. |
| 15 min |
Reflection Session |
Students and Instructors discuss as a group the essay prompt and brainstorm different ways to approach and to answer the question. |
| 25 min |
Essay Examples |
Instructors pass out sample essays that illustrate various levels of achievement in answering the essay prompt, then lead a group discussion about what is good and/or bad about the sample essays. |
| 10 min |
Short Break |
- - - |
| 60 min |
Writer Workshop | Students work on their independent essay project while instructors provide individualized attention, tips, and instruction. Students will either be conducting research or engaged in a step of the writing process. |
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