Loomis Chaffee 暑期充实课程

Every student takes a writing fundamentals course and a writing elective in the morning and two electives in the afternoon, in small classes taught by the school’s faculty. The Best Self curriculum — self-awareness, resilience and a student’s sense of who they are as a learner — is woven through all of it, and students who have already completed the first part of it can continue into the Common Good Leadership elective, which builds leadership skills and puts them to work on service projects in the surrounding town.

Four courses a day, with a community meeting or advisory between the two morning classes. Writing Course I begins the morning, Writing Course II follows the meeting, and the two afternoon electives run after lunch. Recreation and afternoon activities start in the late afternoon, dinner follows, and the evening ends with dorm check-in and dorm activities. The school does not publish a lesson count per week.

Writing fundamentals courses: The Essentials, Power & Persuasion, Writing and Human Expression. Writing electives: Creative Writing, Graphic Novel, Poetry Workshop, The Language of Art, This I Believe, Absurd! Theater, Performance & Collaborative Storytelling. Afternoon electives: Advanced Robotics & Coding, Introduction to Robotics & Coding, Ceramics (handbuilding and 3D sculpture, and throwing on the wheel), Drawing, Painting, Digital Photography, DNA Science, Evolution & Genetics, Forensic Science: Crime Scene Investigation, Oceanography, What If? Scientific Inquiry Through Chemistry, Future Leaders of AI, Innovative Design, Entrepreneurship, Beyond the Horizon: Designing the Futures We Want, Mythology, Self Exploration: Introduction to Social Psychology, and Common Good Leadership for high-school-age students. Courses are offered at two levels, for grades seven and eight and for grades nine and ten, and the list is subject to change.