|
Date |
Time |
Activities |
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Sunday, July 16 |
3:00-4:30 PM |
Parent Check-in
and Drop Off: assignment of rooms, important
contact numbers for parents. |
|
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4:30-5:30 PM
|
Student Welcome
and Orientation: overview of expectations,
activities, goals, standards of behavior. |
| |
5:30-6:30 PM |
Dinner in Cafeteria
|
| |
7:00-8:00 PM |
Icebreakers:
Walk around campus to key buildings,
facilities, settle into rooms. |
| |
8:00-10:00 PM |
Movie Room |
| |
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Monday, July 17
|
7:45 – 8:30 AM |
Breakfast at Williston
cafeteria |
| |
8:30-9:30 AM |
Academic Class: English
Prep: writing, vocab, test prep. |
| |
9:30-10:30 AM |
Academic Class: Drama:
advanced skill work that is age-appropriate. |
| |
10:30-11:30 AM |
College Admissions Seminar:
Admissions Officers Seminar on process, overview, question and answer. |
| |
11:30 – 12:00 PM |
Break |
| |
12:15 – 1:00 PM |
Lunch |
| |
1:00 – 5:30 PM |
Scavenger Hunt on campus.
Time in Williston Theatre. |
| |
5:30 -6:30 PM |
Dinner |
| |
6:30 – 7:00 PM |
Downtime, work on projects,
homework |
| |
7:00 – 9:00 PM |
Collaboration on Projects |
| |
9:30-10:30 PM |
Nightly reflection;
journaling on what was learned. |
| |
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Tuesday, July 18
|
7:45-8:30 AM |
Breakfast at Williston
Cafeteria |
| |
8:30-9:30 AM |
Academic Class: English
Prep: writing, vocab, test prep. |
| |
9:30-10:30 AM |
Academic Class: Drama:
skill work age-appropriate |
| |
10:30-11:30 AM |
College Admissions Seminar:
Importance of classes, transcripts, SATs, etc. |
| |
11:30-12:15 PM |
Collaboration: Time to Plan
Presentations |
| |
12:15-1:15PM |
Lunch |
| |
1:15 – 5:30 PM |
Campus Tour of UMass and
Amherst College.
Amherst College: Tour of Campus, including: Mead Art
Museum, Emily Dickinson Museum (This Was a
Poet), and Planetarium at Amherst. Survivor
Challenge on campus. |
| |
5:30 – 6:00 PM |
Dinner |
| |
6:00 - 10:00 PM |
Tour of Smith College:
campus, architecture, buildings. Academy of
Music Theatre: An Inconvenient Truth at 7:00.
Acclaimed documentary by former Presidential
candidate and environmental activist Al
Gore. |
| |
10:00- 10:30 PM |
Journaling and reflection. |
| |
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|
Wednesday, July 19
|
7:30-8:30 AM |
Breakfast at Williston
Cafeteria |
| |
8:30-9:00 AM |
Academic Class: English
Prep: writing, vocab, test prep. |
| |
9:00-10:00 AM |
Academic Class: Drama:
skill work age-appropriate |
| |
10:00 – 12:15 PM |
Tour of Mount Holyoke
College: Art Museum, campus, etc. |
| |
12:15-12:45 PM |
Lunch |
| |
12:45 –5:30 PM |
Tour of Springfield
College, and Basketball Hall of Fame in
Springfield. |
| |
5:30-6:15 PM |
Dinner |
| |
7:00-9:00 PM |
Wiliston-Theatre Time |
| |
10:00-10:30 PM |
Reflection and journaling |
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Thursday, July 20
|
7:45-8:30 AM |
Breakfast at Williston
Cafeteria |
| |
8:30-9:30 AM |
Academic Class: English
Prep: writing, vocab, test prep. |
| |
9:30-10:30 AM |
Academic Class: Drama:
skill work age-appropriate |
| |
10:30-11:30 AM |
Guest Lecture: Poetry
workshop. Local poet shares work and leads workshop |
| |
11:30-12:15 |
Collaboration |
| |
12:15-1:00 PM |
Lunch |
| |
12:45- 8:30 PM |
Six Flags Amusement Park |
| |
8:30 – 9:30 PM |
Collaboration for Final
Projects |
| |
9:30 – 10:00 PM |
Discussion and Journaling |
| |
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Friday, July 21
|
7:45-8:30 AM |
Breakfast at Williston
Cafeteria |
| |
8:30-9:30 AM |
Academic Class: English
Prep: writing, vocab, test prep. |
| |
9:30-10:30 AM |
Academic Class: Drama:
skill work age-appropriate |
| |
10:30-11:30 AM |
Guest Lecture: .College
Admissions Counseling: How to Pull Together This Experience in Your College
Resume. |
| |
12:15 – 1:00 PM |
Lunch |
| |
1:00- 3:00 PM |
Collaboration and
Presentation Practice |
| |
3:00 – 4:00 PM |
Wood-paneled Room:
Presentations |
| |
4:00 – 5:00 PM |
Parents pick up time |
