Summer Language Arts

Writing Camp 5–6: Language Arts Triathlon

In this high-energy, high-impact summer course, students build advanced language arts skills in the three "events" of grammar, vocabulary, and writing. Students engage in daily language arts puzzles, challenges, and competitions with their classmates. These training events prepare students for the Triathlon itself, a three-part challenge on the final day of class in which students measure their progress in friendly competition with their classmates.

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Course Overview

Duration: 2 Weeks
Class time: 3hrs per day, Monday–Friday
Homework: None

Skills: Vocabulary, grammar, reading comprehension, sentence and paragraph structure, composition

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Class Experience

Each day of class includes time dedicated to training for each of the three events that make up the Triathlon, the collaborative competition on the final day of class:

Grammar: Students investigate a grammar concept and use their new understanding to solve a daily puzzle. Concepts begin with essential skills for recognizing parts of speech and culminate in a deep analysis of sentence structure.

Vocabulary: Each day, students practice skills for decoding advanced vocabulary as they explore etymology and word roots through engaging vocabulary puzzles.

Writing: Students build their writing skills by advancing through a series of increasingly challenging tasks, from constructing clear sentences to writing a strong paragraph for an essay.

The end-of-the-course Triathlon sees students not merely using these skills in sequence but synthesizing them, applying mastery of one skill to enhance their work in the others.

Frequently Asked Questions

For Academic Year Courses

If you drop an Academic Year Course before the course starts, we will issue a full refund of tuition and all associated fees. If you drop an Academic Year Course before the third class after you enroll, we will issue a full refund of the tuition for the course.

Should you choose to withdraw from a class, you must give notice before the 12th or 24th lesson in order to not be charged for the next trimester's tuition. Please note that your student may still attend classes through the current trimester.

For Summer Courses

If you drop a Summer Camp before the start of the first class session, we'll issue a full refund for the tuition. No refunds will be issued for withdrawing from a Summer Camp after the start of the first class session.

For more information, please visit our Tuition page.

Our curriculum has been carefully crafted from accomplished subject-matter experts in math, language arts, science, and computer science who work at the Art of Problem Solving Headquarters in San Diego, CA. One of the things that distinguishes our curriculum from other learning centers is that the curriculum team is actively observing the challenge and engagement level of our courses by teaching classes, meeting with instructors, and surveying customers, so the curriculum never remains static but improves every year to give students a higher quality education.

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