Summer at Immaculate
Immaculate High School's Summer Enrichment Program will be conducted in person this year. The program gives middle and high school students an opportunity to learn and grow over the summer. It will also provide extra instructional time for students during this unique period.
- Incoming freshmen have even more to gain from our summer program, with the opportunity to meet new friends and teachers and build new skills.
- Classes are offered to students entering Grades 7 - 8.
- Upperclassmen have the opportunity to take classes in Introduction to Advanced Logical Reasoning in Geometry, Fundamentals of Algebra, Reading, Writing & Language: Strategies for the SAT, College Prep Essay, STEM: Fields of Engineering, Newtown's Laws, and Music: Listening, Writing and Creating. These classes provide for a more productive Fall semester.
- All students must have access to a computer/iPad with a camera and a microphone to be able to engage in the class.
Read the course descriptions below to learn about the class times/schedules, instructors and cost of each class.
Course Descriptions
STUDENTS ENTERING GRADE 7-8
STEM: THE FIELDS OF ENGINEERING
(Offered to students entering Grade 7 through 9)
Intro to Engineering is a fun summer enrichment program designed to introduce students to different fields of engineering. Students will work in teams, using their knowledge to solve problems and build prototypes while using the engineering design. Students will be exposed to many hands-on activities, including creating renewable energy by using the solar and wind power, using insulation materials to keep their food fresh, building an earthquake resistant house and other projects.
Schedule: Monday June 21 –Thursday June 24 and Monday June 28 – Thursday July 1
Time: 10:15 am – 12:15pm
Room: 205
Cost: $300.00
MATH READINESS COURSE
(Offered to students entering Grade 8 and 9)
The Math Readiness program is aimed at maintaining or improving academic proficiency over the summer. This curriculum is designed to enhance academic skills that are necessary to be successful in a college prep program.
The topics for the courses will include:
- Whole Numbers, Decimals, Fractions
- Ratio and Proportions
- Order of Operations
- Solving Linear Equations
- Solving Linear Inequalities
- Slope as a rate of change
- Graphing & Writing Equations of a line
- Operations with Polynomials and an introduction to factoring
- Real–World Problem relating to the topics listed above
Schedule : Monday June 21 –Thursday June 24 and Monday June 28 – Thursday July 1
Time : 8:00 am – 10:00am
Room : 204
Cost: $300.00
PREPARATION FOR THE HIGH SCHOOL PLACEMENT TEST (HSPT) – MATHEMATICS
(Offered to students entering Grade 8)
This course is designed for students preparing to take the High School Placement test (HSPT). It will focus on important test taking strategies and topics that students will encounter in the math section of the exam.
- Algebraic Equations and Concepts such as absolute value.
- Arithmetic: Addition, Decimals, Division, Fractions, Multiplication, Number Line, Order of Operations,
- Percentages, Subtraction
- Geometry: Angles, Graphing, Perimeter of Plane Figures, Plane Figures, Volume of Solid Figures
- Word Problems: Distance, Rate & Time problems and work problems
Schedule: Monday June 21 –Thursday June 24 and Monday June 28 – Thursday July 1
Time: 8:00am - 10:00am
Room: 202
Cost: $300.00
STUDENTS ENTERING GRADE 9
SUMMER READING AND GRAMMAR REVIEW
(Offered to students entering Grade 9 Only)
The English program is designed to improve the student’s ability to analyze, synthesize, and make personal connections with literature. The curriculum develops the student's note-taking skills, reading comprehension, critical thinking, and written communication. Students will study the grammatical structure of the English language and apply literacy skills to fiction and non-fiction works. Student should be prepared with a notebook, a pen or pencil.
Below is a brief outline of the course content.
- Note-Taking
- Finding the main idea
- Summarizing
- Using Graphic Organizers
- Grammar Review
- Formulated based on student needs
- Summer Reading Studies
- Silent sustained reading
- Reading aloud
- Guided Discussion
- Responding to plot based and critical thinking questions
- Formulating questions
- Making personal connections
- Applying literary terms
- Comparing and contrasting works
Schedule: Monday June 21 –Thursday June 24 and Monday June 28 – Thursday July 1
Time: 10:15 am – 12:15pm
Room: Learning Commons
Cost: $300.00
MATH READINESS COURSE
(Offered to students entering Grade 8 and 9)
The Math Readiness program is aimed at maintaining or improving academic proficiency over the summer. This curriculum is designed to enhance academic skills that are necessary to be successful in a college prep program.
The topics for the courses will include:
- Whole Numbers, Decimals, Fractions
- Ratio and Proportions
- Order of Operations
- Solving Linear Equations
- Solving Linear Inequalities
- Slope as a rate of change
- Graphing & Writing Equations of a line
- Operations with Polynomials and an introduction to factoring
- Real–World Problem relating to the topics listed above
Schedule : Monday June 21 –Thursday June 24 and Monday June 28 – Thursday July 1
Time : 8:00 am – 10:00am
Room : 204
Cost: $300.00
STEM: THE FIELDS OF ENGINEERING
(Offered to students entering Grade 7 through 9)
Intro to Engineering is a fun summer enrichment program designed to introduce students to different fields of engineering. Students will work in teams, using their knowledge to solve problems and build prototypes while using the engineering design. Students will be exposed to many hands-on activities, including creating renewable energy by using the solar and wind power, using insulation materials to keep their food fresh, building an earthquake resistant house and other projects.
Schedule: Monday June 21 –Thursday June 24 and Monday June 28 – Thursday July 1
Time: 10:15 am – 12:15pm
Room: 205
Cost: $300.00
INTRODUCTION TO THE BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(Offered to students entering Grade 9 and 10)
This program is designed to expose the student to the wide variety of biological concepts presented in our curriculum, but to also reinforce the student’s understanding of the scientific method. The students will utilize the various facilities of Immaculate, including both computer Tech and Biology Labs. Topics covered will include an overview of the scientific method and how to apply it, an introduction with relevant background information to cells, cell theory, the properties of living organisms, energy production, energy relationships, and the central dogma of biology. Students will get practice designing, performing, and analyzing their own experiments based on one of the topics covered during the week, and further develop skills in writing laboratory reports.
Schedule: Monday June 21 –Thursday June 24 and Monday June 28 – Thursday July 1
Time: 10:15 am – 12:15pm
Room: 309 and the adjacent labs
Cost: $300.00
INTRO. TO ADVANCED LOGICAL REASONING IN GEOMETRY
(Offered to students entering Grade 9, 10 and 11 who have completed an Algebra 1 Course)
A course targeted to setting a foundation of logic, proof writing, and connecting algebraic skills to geometric concepts.
Students will be introduced to:
- Review algebra skills needed to succeed in geometry
- Apply algebraic skills to geometric content
- Terminology in geometry
- Intro to symbolic Logic
- Practice using the tools of geometry such as compasses and protractors
- Implement logic to prove geometric theorems and postulates
- Practice proof writing
Schedule: Monday June 21 –Thursday June 24 and Monday June 28 – Thursday July 1
Time: 8:00am-10:00am
Room: 205
Cost: $300.00
MUSIC: LISTENING, WRITING AND CREATING
(Offered to students entering Grade 9 through 12)
We will learn the different parts of music, how to read and write music for voice and different instruments. Bring your instruments or your singing voice along! Want to learn more about your favorite instrument? Want to figure out a new instrument to play? We will learn a bit about each instrument and what they can do, in different combinations. Do you enjoy singing, but would like to sing with instrumentalists playing along? Or are you new to music, but want to learn a little about it? You are welcome, too! By the end of the course, we will learn how to write and arrange short songs for our class to perform and record!
Schedule: Monday June 21 –Thursday June 24 and Monday June 28 – Thursday July 1
Time: 10:15am-12:15pm
Room: 317
Cost: $300.00
STUDENTS ENTERING GRADE 10-12
INTRODUCTION TO THE BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(Offered to students entering Grade 9 and 10)
This program is designed to expose the student to the wide variety of biological concepts presented in our curriculum, but to also reinforce the student’s understanding of the scientific method. The students will utilize the various facilities of Immaculate, including both computer Tech and Biology Labs. Topics covered will include an overview of the scientific method and how to apply it, an introduction with relevant background information to cells, cell theory, the properties of living organisms, energy production, energy relationships, and the central dogma of biology. Students will get practice designing, performing, and analyzing their own experiments based on one of the topics covered during the week, and further develop skills in writing laboratory reports.
Schedule: Monday June 21 –Thursday June 24 and Monday June 28 – Thursday July 1
Time: 10:15 am – 12:15pm
Room: 309 and the adjacent labs
Cost: $300.00
INTRO. TO ADVANCED LOGICAL REASONING IN GEOMETRY
(Offered to students entering Grade 9, 10 and 11 who have completed an Algebra 1 Course)
A course targeted to setting a foundation of logic, proof writing, and connecting algebraic skills to geometric concepts.
Students will be introduced to:
- Review algebra skills needed to succeed in geometry
- Apply algebraic skills to geometric content
- Terminology in geometry
- Intro to symbolic Logic
- Practice using the tools of geometry such as compasses and protractors
- Implement logic to prove geometric theorems and postulates
- Practice proof writing
Schedule: Monday June 21 –Thursday June 24 and Monday June 28 – Thursday July 1
Time: 8:00am-10:00am
Room: 205
Cost: $300.00
FUNDAMENTALS OF ALGEBRA
(Offered to students entering Grade 10 and 11 who have completed an Algebra I Course)
This program is designed to focus and target the skills from Algebra 1 that are crucial to understanding the Algebra topics students will encounter in an advanced Algebra course.
The topics for the courses will include:
- Solving Equations and inequalities
- Graphing equations and inequalities
- Exponents and polynomials
- Factoring and applications
- Rational expressions & applications
- Systems of linear equations & inequalities
- Roots, radicals and complex numbers
- Quadratic equations and functions
Schedule : Monday June 21 –Thursday June 24 and Monday June 28 – Thursday July 1
Time : 10:15 am – 12:15am
Room : 202
Cost: $300.00
MUSIC: LISTENING, WRITING AND CREATING
(Offered to students entering Grade 9 through 12)
We will learn the different parts of music, how to read and write music for voice and different instruments. Bring your instruments or your singing voice along! Want to learn more about your favorite instrument? Want to figure out a new instrument to play? We will learn a bit about each instrument and what they can do, in different combinations. Do you enjoy singing, but would like to sing with instrumentalists playing along? Or are you new to music, but want to learn a little about it? You are welcome, too! By the end of the course, we will learn how to write and arrange short songs for our class to perform and record!
Schedule: Monday June 21 –Thursday June 24 and Monday June 28 – Thursday July 1
Time: 10:15am-12:15pm
Room: 317
Cost: $300.00
READING, WRITING, & LANGUAGE: STRATEGIES MINI-LESSONS & PRACTICES FOR THE NEW SAT
(Offered to students entering Grades 11 and 12)
This course is designed to prepare students for the Reading and Writing/Language sections of the New SAT. The course will focus on teaching students the format of the test and will provide strategies, daily mini-lessons and practice for questions on critical reading, sentence completion, grammar, usage, and writing.
Schedule: Monday June 21 –Thursday June 24 and Monday June 28 – Thursday July 1
Time: 8:00am - 10:00am
Room: Learning Commons
Cost: $300.00
NEWTON'S LAWS AND MORE
(Offered to students entering Grade 11 and 12)
The students will utilize the various facilities of Immaculate, including both computer Tech and Physics Labs. Topics covered will include an introduction to motion and Newton’s Laws and reviewing necessary math skills. Students will receive practice designing, performing, and analyzing their own experiments and develop skills in writing laboratory reports.
Schedule: Monday June 21 –Thursday June 24 and Monday June 28 – Thursday July 1
Time: 8:00 am – 10:00am
Room: 311 and the adjacent labs
Cost: $300.00
COLLEGE ESSAY PREP.
(Offered to students entering Grades 12)
Why wait until September to start your college essay? Use the College Essay Prep. Class to create drafts and receive guidance in the preparation of one of your most important writing assignments.
Session 1
Schedule: Monday June 21 –Thursday June 24
Time: 8:00 am - 10:00am
Room: 203
Cost: $200.00
Session 2
Schedule: Monday June 21 –Thursday June 24
Time: 10:15 am - 12:15 pm
Room: 203
Cost: $200.00
Session 3
Schedule: Monday June 28 – Thursday July 1
Time: 8:00 am - 10:00am
Room: 203
Cost: $200.00