Summer Academy

Modernly Mannered – FUNdamentals for LIFE!
Offered to students entering Grades 1–5
July 19–23, 2021
July 26–30, 2021
Hours: 9:00 a.m–12:00 p.m. (no lunch)
Tuition: $390 (Half Day) per week

This camp is filled with interactive activities which will help your child understand why manners matter. Eye contact, introductions, conversation skills, grown-up titles, respect, greetings & goodbyes, tech manners, thank you notes, leadership skills, manners in public spaces, and table manners (both American and European) will all be included. There will be many role-playing activities such as Me on Mondays, On the Air, Let's Eat, and more. A large workbook will be included in this camp which will include lots of drawing, painting, and coloring. At the end of the week, we will have an outdoor picnic and art gallery opening so that the children can put all of their skills to use! This program is certified by the American Academy of Etiquette and Manners to Go.

Modernly Mannered – FUNdamentals for LIFE!
Offered to students entering Grades 6–8
July 19–23, 2021
July 26–30, 2021
Hours: 1:00–4:00 p.m. (no lunch)
Tuition: $390 (Half Day) per week

This camp is filled with interactive activities which will help your child understand why manners matter. Eye contact, introductions, conversation skills, grown-up titles, respect, greetings & goodbyes, tech manners, thank you notes, leadership skills, manners in public spaces, and table manners (both American and European) will all be included. There will be many role-playing activities such as Me on Mondays, On the Air, Let's Eat, and more. A large workbook will be included in this camp which will include lots of drawing, painting, and coloring. At the end of the week, we will have an outdoor picnic and art gallery opening so that the children can put all of their skills to use! This program is certified by the American Academy of Etiquette and Manners to Go.

Grades 9–12
Co-ed
Dates: June 21–July 9, 2021
Time: 1:00–2:00 p.m.
Instructor: Elizabeth Farshtey

What is real and how can we know? What is the nature of humans? What is the best society? And how are we to live in an imperfect world? These and other questions will be explored as we study Greek and Roman philosophers from the pre-Socratics through the Stoics. We will learn what others have thought as well as explore our own answers to these questions and others.

Grades 6–8
Co-ed
Dates: August 2–13, 2021
Time: 10–11 a.m. (10 hours)
Instructor: Riddhi Calidas

The STEAM + Coding Program will engage students in integrated, cross-curricular, creative electronics and coding activities. They will design and develop hands-on projects and complete challenges that encourage team building. This program will engage students further to explore the fields of computer science and engineering.

Grades 9–12
Co-ed
Dates: July 12–23, 2021
Time: 2:30–3:30 p.m. (10 hours)
Instructor: Elizabeth Farshtey

Over 60% of English words have Latin or Greek roots. The number rises closer to 90% when dealing with scientific and technological words. In this course, we will look at some common Greek and Latin root words, as well as prefixes and suffixes. The goal is not to memorize vocabulary lists but to learn how to break down unfamiliar words to be able to determine their meaning in context. We will also look at the histories of some of the English language's more quirky words.

Grades 9–12
Co-ed
Dates: July 12–23, 2021
Time: 1:00–2:00 p.m. (10 hours)
Instructor: Elizabeth Farshtey

In this course, we will read and discuss Greek myths, including some lesser-known but equally important ones. We will also explore the meaning and purpose of mythology, and see how some myths are universal across cultures and continents.

Grades 9–12
Co-ed
Dates: July 6–26
Time: 1:30–2:30 p.m. (15 hours total)
Instructor: Elyse Warren

In this summer course, the goal will be to explore the basic tenants and theories of international relations. We will do this by investigating case studies that show the impacts of international law, governments, globalization, global actors, and human behaviors or international relations. Students will be able to apply these concepts to their history classes and use the knowledge as a precursor to international relations, political, economic, or international business courses in college.

Grades 6–8
Co-ed
Date: June 21–25, 2021
Time: 1:00–2:00 p.m. (5 hours)
Instructor: Megan Hook

Anxiety and stress can really get us down, but there are tools to deal with them! Mindfulness allows us to start recognizing patterns of stress and anxiety and even interrupt the patterns as they are happening. Adding in self-compassion deepens our insights around the causes of stress and the way of stress cycles: kindness, gentleness, and awareness. 

Grades 9–12
Co-ed
Dates: June 21–25, 2021
Time: 2:30–3:30 p.m. (5 hours)
Instructor: Megan Hook

Anxiety and stress can really get us down, but there are tools to deal with them! Mindfulness allows us to start recognizing patterns of stress and anxiety and even interrupt the pattern as they are happening. Adding in self-compassion deepens our insights around the causes of stress and the way out of stress cycles: kindness, gentleness, and awareness.

Grades 6–8
All girls
Dates: July 12–16, 2021
Time: 1:00–2:00 p.m. (5 hours)
Instructor: Megan Hook

Mindfulness helps to be more present in life: to experience everyday joy, to work with strong emotions that arise, to strengthen our connection with others, and to build skills to work with anxiety or stress. Mindfulness is much more than just sitting quietly! We will explore mindful listening, mindful walking, and mindful communication. We'll make art, walk in nature, make playlists of great music, do some mindful movement, and explore a myriad of practices that deepen connection to everyday wonder and joy of being alive.

Grades 9–12
All girls
Dates (Mondays and Thursdays Only): June 21, June 24, June 28, July 1, July 8, July 12, July 15, July 19, July 22, July 26 (No July 5)
Time: 3:30–5:00 p.m. (15 hours)
Instructor: Michael Schwartz

We will read and discuss the entirety of Moby-Dick using an approach that is as multi-angled as possible because that's precisely what the novel's polymath author, Herman Melville, was trying to do: to explore intellectually (or, "nerd out") on a particular subject (in this case, the concept of "the whale") in as many ways as he could. Captain Ahab's quest for Moby-Dick is parallel to the narrator Ishmael's own philosophical quest for understanding, as the latter delves into the mystery of our relationships with ourselves, each other, the world, and various conceptions of God. We will consider such areas of study as psychology, religion, metaphysics, ethics, myth, science, politics, class, economics, gender, race, and sexuality, and will think about the place of this 1851 novel in pre-Civil War United States Literature. Additionally, we will examine the ways Melville's ambitiously-experimental writing style crosses the boundaries between fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction, and how it straddles the artistic schools of romanticism, realism, naturalism, modernism, and postmodernism. Other topics may include Melville's humor; his life; the novel's popular and critical reception; the special influence of Milton, Shakespeare, and Hawthorne on the novel; the place of the novel in Melville's larger body of work; Melville and the visual arts; and the other areas of interest in Melville studies today. Recent KPS graduates are welcome to take the class.

Grades: 9–12
Co-ed
Dates: June 25–July 9, 2021
Time: 2:30–3:30 p.m. (10 hours)
Instructor: Elizabeth Farshtey

Since almost all of the Latin work that has survived was written by men, the voices of Roman women have been mostly silent. By looking at the few writings we do have of them, including inscriptions, and comparing. that with what men had to say about them, we will see if we can reconstruct some of what it meant to be a woman in Republican and Imperial Rome. Although we are dealing with classical texts, no knowledge of Latin is required for this course.