English

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  • Critical Reading & Academic Writing – IN-PERSON FORMAT

    Students entering Grades 9 – 12
    June 16 – July 03 (3 weeks)
    10:00 – 12:30 am
    Gates Mills Campus
    $895
     
    Students will maximize success when dealing with reading and writing skills typically encountered in the classroom. The course will focus on critical reading through strategies like proper highlighting and annotating in texts, locating key words, building vocabulary, and mapping an argument from a text. Genres to be explored include short stories, poems, and analytical essays on current events. Students will also strengthen paragraph development and essay writing, including effective word usage, sentence construction, and topic sentence development, as well as the pre-writing and outlining phase of essay production. This course is recommended for students new to Hawken School but is ideal for any student needing to strengthen or enhance these skills.

  • English and Writing

    Upper and Mastery School students entering Grades 9-10
    June 16th – June 27th (2 weeks) (Note: not offered on June 19 in observance of Juneteenth)
    9:00 – 11:00 am
    University Circle Campus
    $550
     
    Learning how to write is actually the skill of learning how to think. This program is for all skill levels, whether you’re just figuring out how to write a good five-paragraph essay on a short story or you want to start your 50-page dissertation on the symbolism of Greek archetypes across an array of 1990s science fiction novels. We will read some texts to give us something to think about and discuss, you’ll set goals for what you want to get better at, and then we’ll draft something new and workshop it in groups.