SUMMER BOARDING AT LANDMARK

Landmark's Summer Boarding Program offers an exciting choice of educational, cultural, and recreational experiences. Living in a Landmark dorm encourages individual responsibility, achievement, and independence.  A full schedule of supervised, after-school activities includes visits to local beaches, state parks, museums, seaports, cities, and overnight camping trips.

FULL-DAY ACADEMIC PROGRAM 

Boarding and day students can choose our Full-Day Academic Program, which offers a comprehensive schedule of academic classes and two daily one-to-one Language Arts tutorials.  Reading, writing, spelling and composition, as well as math, study skills, and electives are offered.

HALF-DAY ACADEMIC PROGRAM 

Day students may choose our Half-Day Program of academics in the morning. This option works to build language arts skills through small classes and a daily one-to-one Language Arts tutorial.

ACADEMIC CLASS DESCRIPTIONS

Language Arts Tutorial
A daily one-to-one tutorial is tailored to each student.  The curriculum is developed by an academic case manager working in conjunction with a tutor.  Together they build a diagnostic program based on formal and informal assessments.  The one-to-one tutorial may address the following areas of instruction: 

• Oral reading
• Spelling
• Reading comprehension
• Composition
• Study Skills
• Handwriting

Language Arts
The Language Arts classes focus on written expression using a five-step model which includes: brainstorming, organizing ideas, rough drafting, proofreading and editing, and final drafting.  Landmark High School focuses on expository writing for academics and everyday life.  Specific skill work, such as sentence structures, punctuation and descriptive language, are taught in isolation and then applied to students’ writing.  Paragraph framing techniques, including templates, are utilized as needed, at all levels of the writing hierarchy.  Classes are conducted within the context of thematic units, and offer three basic levels of instruction: 

• Single paragraph writing
• Multi-paragraph writing 
• Essay writing

Mathematics
Landmark combines individualized and systematic approaches to Mathematics.  New material is presented in small segments or micro-units.  Overall goals for each class include: 

• Developing confidence by providing an experience of success doing math
• Improving areas of weakness and filling in gaps in the student’s math experience
• Working towards becoming a better problem solver
• Introducing and developing math study skills

Students are placed in classes to review the course they had during the previous school year, or preview their expected coursework for the upcoming school year.  In most summers, the following mathematics courses are offered: Foundations of High School Math, Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II, Advanced Algebra, and Pre-Calculus.

 (For detailed course descriptions please reference the high school Curriculum Guide. )

Study Skills
This course targets three primary areas of organization:  time, materials, and information.  Study Skills classes are designed to help students develop a more organized and independent approach to learning.  Organizational skills are first taught in isolation.  Students are then asked to practice strategies.  They are taught how to:

• Recognize and formulate main ideas
• Take notes
• Paraphrase and summarize information

Students are encouraged to explore and understand their unique learning styles.  Depending on their knowledge and ability with the initial skills that are introduced, a student may be asked to apply these skills to more challenging tasks such as reading textbooks, test-taking techniques, and lecture note-taking.

FULL-DAY COMBINATION PROGRAM

Combine a morning of academics, including a daily one-to-one tutorial, with one of the following afternoon activities:

    Marine Science

     Exploring the North Shore's coastal and ocean ecosystems, working on research

     teams, collecting data, and applying basic interdisciplinary academic skills are all part

     of Marine Science. The program provides hands-on learning and experiences of

     discovery through field, laboratory, and classroom studies. (To become actively involved

     in the spirit of Marine Science studies, students should feel comfortable in and around

     water). 

     Adventure Ropes • Sea Kayaking

     In Adventure Ropes students are challenged  to develop leadership, problem-

     solving skills, and perseverance through high ropes elements.  By the end of stage

     one, students learn to climb 60 feet into the trees.  Sea Kayaking teaches students to

     enjoy the water while learning paddling and safety techniques, seamanship, navigation

     and wet exits.  The group explores coastal environments and group dynamics

     with a "Shipwreck Drill."  As a final challenge, students perform an independent solo

     experience and return home with new perspectives.

     Musical Theater

     Students learn how to stage a full-scale theatrical production in just six weeks.  Each

     member of the cast and crew has the opportunity to perform on stage or develop

     technical theater skills behind-the-scenes.  On-stage performers learn to act, dance,

     and sing as part of a musical company.  Technical theater students try their hand at set

     building and design, sound and lighting, and produce the summer production.

     The Performing Arts comes alive at Landmark.

Contact Us

Click here to request Summer 2008 information.

Click here to view or download the Summer Student Handbook.

Office of Admission
Landmark School
429 Hale St.
P.O. Box 227
Prides Crossing, MA 01965-0227

Phone 978-236-3000
Fax 978-927-7268
Email admission@landmarkschool.org