Summer School - FreedomProject Academy

SUMMER
COURSES

Whether students are looking to accelerate their learning, explore new subjects, our interactive online platform provides the ideal opportunity to continue their educational journey from anywhere in the world.

SUMMER SCHOOL COURSES

Each class is about 6-8 weeks of condensed, self-paced course content with a main purpose of providing instruction to fill in gaps in knowledge and skills and provide a foundation for future success. On a rare occasion, successful completion of a summer course may serve as the needed pre-requisite course content for fall placement in a course of interest with exception of the Phonics, Basic Grammar, and Basic Arithmetic classes. These situations will be handled on a case by case basis.

The course curriculum and assignments will be detailed daily and weekly in Canvas with the expectation of all course material to be completed by August 11, 2023. However, these are “self-paced” courses with recorded lessons (no live teacher, with the exception of the Phonics, Basic Grammar, and Basic Arithmetic classes), so students may complete and submit the work at their discretion but must have all assignments, quizzes, and tests submitted by the August 11th deadline. Students MUST maintain a minimum of 70% proficiency in order to progress through the learning modules.

ENROLLMENT

APRIL 4th –
JUNE 12TH, 2024

COST

$325 FOR TUITION

All required materials for all classes will be provided in Canvas

WHO IS ELIGIBLE?

Students eligible for 1st-2nd Phonics will have completed 1st-2nd grade.
Students eligible for 3rd-5th Phonics will have completed the 3rd-5th grade
Students eligible for Basic Grammar will have completed the 3rd grade.
Students eligible for Basic Arithmetic will have completed the 2nd grade.
Students eligible for IEW Writing will have completed the 4th or 5th grade.

Students eligible for Junior High Math I will have successfully completed the Saxon 5/4 Math program or pass a placement test.
Students eligible for Junior High Math II will have successfully completed the Saxon 6/5 Math program or pass a placement test.
Students eligible for Junior High Math III will have successfully completed Saxon 7/6 Math program or pass a placement test.
Students eligible for Pre-Algebra will have successfully completed the Saxon 7/6 OR 8/7 Math program or pass a placement test.
Students eligible for 7th-8th English will have successfully completed 7th English or pass the 8th English placement test.

SUMMER COURSES

Using the Victory Drill Book, students will study and practice the phonetic approach to reading words with short vowels, consonant blends, and long vowels. This course covers the foundation of reading as the student begins to build decoding skills to use as the reading level becomes more complex.

This course is intended for students entering the 1st or 2nd grade and serves as an opportunity to refresh or reinforce foundational phonics skills needed for reading. This course is intended for students who already know how to decode Consonant-Vowel-Consonant words (i.e. dog, run, cat). In addition to the recorded lessons, there will be ONE HOUR of LIVE instruction weekly at 10:00 AM CT on Wednesdays June 10th through July 26th that will provide an opportunity for students to practice learned skills and receive teacher feedback on progress.

Covering the second half of the Victory Drill Book, students will study digraphs (th, sh, ch, wh) and dipthongs (two vowels in the same syllable with a close relationship that causes each of the vowels to lose its pure quality, i.e., oi). Students will have the opportunity to practice decoding and reading two and three-syllable words so that they are successful when reading increasing complex literature and texts.

In addition to the recorded lessons, there will be ONE HOUR of LIVE instruction weekly at 11:00 AM CT on Wednesdays June 10th through July 26th that will provide an opportunity for students to practice learned skills and receive teacher feedback on progress.

In this course students will hone their language skills through review of the fundamental concepts of the English language. Primary areas of exploration will include identifying parts of speech: nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, and conjunctions. Sentence structure components such as subjects and predicates, fragments and run-ons, compound sentences and sentence diagramming will also be examined. Students will also learn proper capitalization and punctuation. Focus will be given to principal writing skills including paragraph structure and unity.

In addition to the recorded lessons, there will be ONE HOUR of LIVE instruction weekly at 10:00 AM-11:00 AM CT on Thursdays June 10th through August 16th that will provide an opportunity for students to practice learned skills and receive teacher feedback on progress.

Basic Arithmetic is a class to assist students in building confidence in Arithmetic as they enter FreedomProject Academy. The course content focuses on building fundamental Arithmetic skills and drilling math facts. Concepts include procedures and vocabulary relating to addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Studying place value, rounding, creating and reading number lines, comparisons of numbers and procedures, word problems and fractions; students will become proficient in all areas. While some content may be review, teaching will focus on proper solving of algorithms and establishing work habits that demonstrate mastery. Math fact drills will include addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division through ten for third graders, and twelve for fourth, fifth, and 6th graders. Students will attend live class once a week and complete four subsequent recorded classes and homework.

In addition to the recorded lessons, there will be ONE HOUR of LIVE instruction weekly at 10:00 AM-11:00 PM CT on Tuesdays June 17th through August 9th that will provide an opportunity for students to practice learned skills and receive teacher feedback on progress.

Based on the initial phase of the IEW Structure and Style course students will learn outlining and rewriting techniques to enhance essay writing. They will learn how to add components (dress- ups and openers) to their writing, making it coherent, interesting, and varied. Practicing proper paragraph structure will be a focus of the course. While most of the course will focus on non- fiction writing we will dabble with creative story telling as well. This course uses materials taught in the fifth grade FPA classes. It could be a review or preview for those having completed or planning to attend our full-year fifth grade.

Materials Needed: Printed and bound notebook pages provided by instructor, pencil, computer LIVE CLASS meetings twice/week: Tuesdays and Thursdays, June 18th-August 8th at 9:00 CT (No class the week of July 4th)

Students will view about 30-36 hours of recorded instruction and complete daily/weekly assignments and tests as noted on the assignments posted in Canvas. Employing a progressive and structured approach, concepts covered include: the order of operations; geometry and measurement; integers; ratios; statistics and probability; prime and composite numbers; and powers and roots.

Students will specifically learn about making a multiplication table, adding/subtracting fractions with a common denominator, multiplying by multiples of 10 and 100, perimeter, decimal parts, reciprocals, volume, square roots, graphing points on a coordinate plane, and more.

Continuous review built into each problem set builds solid retention. Effective pacing would have students complete 5-6 lessons each week and do the entire problem set for the best development of strong math skills.

Students will view around 30-36 hours of recorded instruction and complete daily/weekly assignments and tests as noted on the assignments posted in Canvas. Employing a progressive and structured approach, students will learn about functions and coordinate graphing, integers, exponential expressions, and prime factorization.

Students will specifically learn about the order of operations, number lines, decimal place value, how to find the percent of a number, how to round decimal numbers, attributes of geometric solids, and more. Continuous review built into each problem set builds solid retention. Effective pacing would have students complete 5-6 lessons each week and do the entire problem set for the best development of strong math skills.

Students will view around 30-36 hours of recorded instruction and complete daily/weekly assignments and tests as noted on the assignments posted in Canvas. Employing a progressive and structured approach, students will learn arithmetic calculation and be introduced to pre-algebra.

Students will specifically learn about solving word problems, adding/subtracting/multiplying fractions, equivalent fractions, repeating decimals, scientific notation, multiplying algebraic terms, and more. Continuous review built into each problem set builds solid retention.

Effective pacing would have students complete 5-6 lessons each week and do the selected problem set for the best development of strong math skills. This is a “Bridge” course for students desiring to strengthen their math skills in preparation for Pre-Algebra.

Students will view about 36 hours of recorded instruction and complete daily/weekly assignments and tests as noted on the assignment sheets in Canvas Designed in a language arts format, grammar, composition, and literature are integrated into one course.

Students continue the study of advanced grammar that forms the basis of literacy, primarily through composition, with writing being considered a process calling for repeated, multi-layered revisions.

Course readings involve a survey of American literature, including poetry, a speech, a novel, and a play to improve comprehension skills while strengthening the writing and intellectual skills necessary for success in high school.

Students will view around 30-36 hours of recorded instruction and complete daily/weekly assignments and tests as noted on the assignment sheets in Canvas. Employing a progressive and structured approach, algebraic expressions and their simplification, linear expressions, and geometric concepts are introduced, strengthening their core knowledge of Pre-algebra concepts and preparing students for Algebra & Geometry I. Continuous review built into each problem set builds solid retention. Effective pacing would have students complete 5-6 lessons each week and do the entire problem set for the best development of strong math skills.