Enrichment Programs

Session 1 Full!

• Four Meetings
• June 24 - June 27
• Hours: 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM
  • 30-minute lunch at 11:00 AM

Session 1 is now full.

Session 2

• Four Meetings
• July 15 - July 18
• Hours: 12:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Note: both sessions cover identical content.

• Cost: $150

“Study Skills in the Content Area” is a four-day in-person course which focuses on skills that students need in order to achieve enhanced success in a college preparatory high school program. This course will present not only general study and organization techniques that can be applied across all curriculum areas, but it will also focus on subject specific strategies in content areas such as two-column notes and effective graphic organizers. The program will also address effective reading strategies and tools that contemporary textbooks use to help students both within the text and on the internet.

Class size limited to 20 and rosters spots fill by date of registration.

Instructor: Mr. Joe Lynch, Central Catholic High School.

• Dates: Three meetings
  • July 1 - July 3 (Mon-Wed)
  • Hours: 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
• Cost: $150

“Power Reading Primer” is a three-day in-person course which focuses on the critical reading skills necessary to succeed across the curriculum of a college preparatory high school. With a focus on strengthening reading comprehension through effective notetaking, students will learn, practice and apply strategies that all strong readers utilize. Students will implement these strategies directly with the Summer Reading text assigned for our first-year students. While working with the text in class, students will prepare to not only complete the Summer Reading program successfully, but also have the critical reading tools required for success in the classroom in the first year of high school and beyond.

Instructor: Mrs. Dawn Kelley

• Dates: Four meetings
  • July 22 - July 25
  • Hours: 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
• Cost: $150

“Successful Writing for High School” is a four-day in-person course that focuses on both the content and process of writing effectively across the high school curriculum. This course covers the different kinds of writing assignments and situations that students will experience, efficient paragraph structure, the parts of the essay, and elements of style. Students will write in response to a series of questions and assignments designed to develop organization, coherence, and critical thinking as part of the writing process.

Instructor: Mrs. Alyssa Gowing, Central Catholic High School

• Dates: Four meetings
  • July 15 - July 18
  • Hours: 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
• Cost: $150

“Pre-Algebra Power Review” is a four-day in-person course which focuses on knowledge and content from previous math courses that will be important for success in Algebra I. This course will review and reinforce by practice: vocabulary related to mathematical concepts; operations on positive and negative whole numbers, decimals and fractions; plotted points in the coordinate plane; the concept of variables; order of operations and simplifying expressions.

Instructor: Mr. Sully Grella, Central Catholic High School