| The ANALYTICAL WRITING course is a small group class that provides instruction in the following areas: |
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Active Reading (Reading Comprehension): Students will read and understand 2 novels, evaluate the credibility of an author's argument or defense of a claim by critiquing the relationship between generalizations and evidence, the comprehensiveness of evidence, and the way in which the author's intent affects the structure and tone of the text. Students will analyze interactions between main and subordinate characters in a literary text–internal and external conflicts, motivations, relationships, influences–and explain the way those interactions affect the plot, determining characters' traits by what the characters say about themselves in narration, dialogue, dramatic monologue, and soliloquy. Students will recognize and understand the significance of various literary devices, including figurative language, imagery, allegory, and symbolism and explain their appeal, interpret and evaluate the impact of ambiguities, subtleties, contradictions, ironies, and incongruities in a text, and evaluate the aesthetic qualities of style, including the impact of diction and figurative language on tone, mood, and theme, using the terminology of literary criticism. |
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Fundamentals of Effective Writing: Students will be writing clear, coherent, and focused essays that establish a controlling impression or a coherent thesis that conveys a clear and distinctive perspective on the subject and maintain a consistent tone and focus throughout the piece of writing. Students will learn to use precise language, action verbs, sensory details, appropriate modifiers, and the active rather than the passive voice. In writing expository compositions, including analytical essays, students will learn to marshal evidence in support of a thesis, include information on all relevant perspectives, convey information and ideas from primary and secondary sources accurately, make distinctions between the relative value and significance of specific data, facts, and ideas and use specific rhetorical devices to support assertions (i.e., appeal to logic through reasoning, appeal to emotion or ethical belief, relate a personal anecdote, case study or analogy). Students will be combining the rhetorical strategies of narration, exposition, persuasion, and description to produce texts of at least 1,500 words each. |
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Vocabulary Development: Students will integrate knowledge of individual words to enhance their writing, distinguish between the denotative and connotative meanings of words and interpret the connotative power of words, and identify and use the literal and figurative meanings of words and understand word derivations. |
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Grammar: For the grammar module of the class, students will learn to identify and correctly use clauses–main and subordinate, phrases–gerund, infinitive, and participial, and mechanics of punctuation - semicolons, colons, ellipses, hyphens, understand sentence construction–parallel structure, subordination, proper placement of modifiers, proper English use–consistency of verb tenses, and proper English usage–consistency of verb tenses. |
| Some book purchases will be necessary. Students can expect homework and weekly quizzes. Grades will be given. | |
| E09A | ANALYTICAL WRITING (9th Gr) |
| June 17–July 12 (4 weeks)* | |
| *July 4–5–Independence Day Holiday (No class) | |
| Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays |
3:30–5:30pm | MYERS |
| The BARUN ACADEMIC CENTER's PUBLIC PRESENTATION 2 aims to develop students' skills and confidence in the areas of public speaking, debate and oral presentations. This course includes description, demonstration and analysis of effective speaking techniques, including the use of visual aids. Language work includes a review of academic vocabulary common in spoken presentations. Students will prepare and present at least five talks for both descriptive and persuasive purposes, receive in-class feedback and are regularly videotaped for self-evaluation and individual tutorials. Public Presentation 2 will cover both logic and argumentation as well as the fundamentals of effective public speaking: preparation, pace, tone, facial and vocal expressiveness, and anxiety management. Students can expect homework, quizzes, a mid-term and a final. Grades will be given. |
| P09B | PUBLIC PRESENTATION 2 (8th–10th Gr) |
| June 18–July 18 (5 weeks)* | |
| *July 4–5–Independence Day Holiday (No class) | |
| Tuesdays and Thursdays | 1:20–3:20pm | MYERS |
| In ENHANCED MATH 1 at the BARUN ACADEMIC CENTER, students will learn to reason abstractly and quantitatively. Instruction will highlight 4 critical areas: |
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Algebra: Represent and solve equations and inequalities graphically. Explain why the x-coordinates of the points where the graphs of the equations y=f(x) and y=g(x) intersect are the solutions of the equation f(x)=g(x). Include cases where f(x) and/or g(x) are linear, polynomial, rational, absolute value, exponential, and logarithmic functions. |
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Functions: Calculate and interpret the average rate of change of a function (presented symbolically or as a table) over a specified interval. Estimate the rate of change from a graph. |
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Geometry: Develop definitions of rotations, reflections, and translations in terms of angles, circles, perpendicular lines, parallel lines, and line segments. Prove the slope criteria for parallel and perpendicular lines and use them to solve geometric problems. |
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Statistics and Probability: Summarize categorical data for two categories in two-way frequency tables. Fit a function to the data. |
| This group class is for the student enrolled in Enhanced Math 1. Students can expect homework, quizzes, a mid-term and a final. Grades will be given. | |
| M02A | ENHANCED MATH 1 |
| June 17–July 12 (4 weeks)* | |
| *July 4–5–Independence Day Holiday (No class) |
| Mondays, Wednesdays,and Fridays | 1:20–3:20pm | KELLY |
| In ENHANCED MATH 2 at the BARUN ACADEMIC CENTER, students will learn to reason abstractly and quantitatively, attend to precision, and model with mathematics. Instruction will highlight 4 critical areas: |
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Algebra: Solve quadratic equations by inspection (e.g., for x2=49), taking square roots, completing the square, the quadratic formula, and factoring, as appropriate to the initial form of the equation. Recognize when the quadratic formula gives complex solutions and write them as a ± bi for real numbers a and b. |
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Functions: Prove the Pythagorean identity sin2(θ) + cos2(θ) = 1 and use it to find sin(θ), or tan(θ) given sin(θ), cos(θ), or tan(θ) and the quadrant of the angle. |
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Geometry: Verify experimentally that in a triangle, angles opposite longer sides are larger, sides opposite larger angles are longer, and the sum of any two sides lengths is greater than the remaining side length; apply these relationships to solve real-world and mathematical problems. |
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Statistics and Probability: Apply the Addition Rule, P(A or B) = P(A) + P(B) - P(A and B), and interpret the answer in terms of the model. |
| This group class is for the student enrolled in Enhanced Math 2. Students can expect homework, quizzes, a mid-term and a final. Grades will be given. | |
| M03A | ENHANCED MATH 2 |
| June 17–July 12 (4 weeks)* | |
| *July 4–5–Independence Day Holiday (No class) |
| Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays |
1:20–3:20pm | KIMES |
| The BARUN ACADEMIC CENTER'S GEOMETRY course provides an excellent foundation for the aspiring math student. The curriculum provides students an opportunity to achieve the following broad instructional goals: |
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Deductive and inductive reasoning as well as investigative strategies in drawing conclusions. Students will also develop an foundation in understanding proof and logic. |
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Properties and relationships of geometric objects include the study of: |
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Points, lines, angles and planes. |
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Polygons, with a special focus on quadrilaterals, triangles, right triangles. |
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Circles, Polyhedra and other solids (volumes and surface areas of prisms, pyramids, cylinders, cones, and spheres). |
| Students can expect homework, quizzes, a mid-term and a final. Grades will be given. |
| M04A | GEOMETRY |
| June 17–July 12 (4 weeks)* | |
| *July 4–5–Independence Day Holiday (No class) |
| Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays |
3:30–5:30pm | C. KELLY |
| The BARUN ACADEMIC CENTER AP PRE-CALCULUS course provides a preview of the 4 major units: Polynomial and Rational Functions, Exponential and Logarithmic Functions, Trigonometric and Polar Functions, and Functions involving Parameters, Vectors, and Matrices. The curriculum provides students an opportunity to: |
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Develop a deep understanding of the fundamental concepts and relationships of functions. |
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Expand their knowledge of quadratic, exponential, and logarithmic functions to include power, polynomial, rational, piece-wise, and trigonometric functions. |
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Investigate and explore mathematical ideas, develop multiple strategies for analyzing complex situations, and use graphing calculators to test concepts empirically. |
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Make connections between representations, and provide support in solving problems. |
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Analyze various representations of functions, sequences, and series. |
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Analyze bivariate data and distributions. |
| Students can expect homework, quizzes, a mid-term and a final. Grades will be given. |
| M05A | AP PRECALCULUS |
| June 18–July 18 (5 weeks)* | |
| *July 4–5–Independence Day Holiday (No class) |
| Tuesdays and Thursdays | 3:30–5:30pm | CHANG |
| The BARUN ACADEMIC CENTER HONORS BIOLOGY course is designed to prepare students for a college-prep, NGSS and STEM aligned standards based lab-oriented course. Essential to this preparation are the following: a grasp of science as a process rather than as an accumulation of facts; recognition of unifying themes that integrate the major topics of biology; and application of biological knowledge and critical thinking to environmental concerns. The HONORS Biology course content covers DNA central dogma, Protein Synthesis, Genetics, Hardy Weinburg principle, Applied Evolution and Ecology, and Human Impact and Mitigation. Honors Biology is designed for the 8th grade student participating in Science Olympiad or the 9th grade student. Students can expect homework, quizzes, a mid-term and a final. Grades will be given. |
| P01B | HONORS BIOLOGY |
| June 18–July 18 (5 weeks)* | |
| *July 4–5–Independence Day Holiday (No class) |
| Tuesdays and Thursdays | 1:20–3:20pm | KOZICK |
| The BARUN ACADEMIC CENTER AP BIOLOGY course provides a preview of the core scientific principles, theories, and processes that cut across traditional boundaries and provide a broad way of thinking about living organisms and biological systems. In addition to developing the conceptual framework, factual knowledge, and analytical skills necessary to deal critically with the rapidly changing science of biology, this summer course broadly covers: |
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Evolution: The process of evolution drives the diversity and unity of life |
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Change in the genetic makeup of a population over time is evolution |
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Organisms are linked by lines of descent from common ancestry |
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Life continues to evolve within a changing environment |
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The origin of living systems is explained by natural processes |
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Biological systems utilize free energy and molecular building blocks to grow, to reproduce and to maintain dynamic homeostasis |
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Growth, reproduction and dynamic homeostasis require that cells create and maintain internal environments that are different from their external environment |
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Organisms use feedback mechanisms to regulate growth and reproduction, and to maintain dynamic homeostasis |
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Growth and dynamic homeostasis of a biological system are influenced by changes in the system’s environment |
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Living systems store, retrieve, transmit and respond to information essential to life processes |
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Living systems store, retrieve, transmit and respond to information essential to life processes |
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Heritable information provides for continuity of life |
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Expression of genetic information involves cellular and molecular mechanisms |
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The processing of genetic information is imperfect and is a source of genetic variation |
| Students can expect homework, quizzes, a mid-term and a final. Grades will be given. |
| P01A | AP BIOLOGY |
| June 18–July 18 (5 weeks)* | |
| *July 4–5–Independence Day Holiday (No class) |
| Tuesdays and Thursdays | 3:30–5:30pm | KOZICK |
| The SPANISH courses are small group classes that focus on the fundamental elements of the Spanish language to include the four basic communication skills: reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Students will be provided with instruction that teaches a basic understanding of Spanish culture, vocabulary, and grammar concepts. Upon completion, students should be able to comprehend and respond with increasing proficiency to spoken and written Spanish and should be able to demonstrate further cultural awareness. The course emphasizes understanding and practical application rather than rote memory. |
| Students can expect homework, quizzes, a mid-term and a final. Grades will be given. |
| P10A | SPANISH 1 |
| June 18–July 18 (5 weeks)* | |
| *July 4–5–Independence Day Holiday (No class) |
| Tuesdays and Thursdays | 1:20–3:20pm | GARCIA |