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This workshop is only open to Harvard-Westlake students. In this 3-day intensive workshop, our panel of college admissions, counseling, and writing professionals will introduce you to the process of preparing a college essay. In addition to giving you valuable information about the current realities of the admissions process, our panel will focus on voice, the elements of your experiences, and interests that form compelling college essays. You will have multiple half hour-long, one-on-one sessions with a member of our panel as you grow your essays from the brainstorming and strategizing stage to a polished final draft. Beginning in the fall, HW Upper School Deans will work with their twelfth-grade counselees, both individually and in small groups, as they craft college essays. This workshop provides a unique opportunity for you to focus solely and intensely on the essay before classes begin in September. Due to the personal attention each student deserves and requires from this workshop, enrollment is limited. Please only register for one session. PREREQUISITES: HW Students Only

This Advanced Spanish Skills course is for anyone who has taken Spanish II or III and who wants to reinforce Spanish skills. The goal is to fortify the communicative skills:  speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Instruction will address your individual needs and weaknesses in order to prepare you for more advanced work in Spanish. This workshop is recommended for anyone who wants to enroll in Spanish II Honors, Spanish III Honors or who wants to enroll in AP Spanish Language after completing Spanish III.

Policy Debate, is intended for experienced Lincoln-Douglas Debaters looking to learn more about policy debate and its application to Lincoln-Douglas Debate. You should have participated on a competitive team for at least one season.

This course is designed to help you improve your math skills in preparation for Calculus. You will have a quick review of the important types of problems that Calculus students must be able to solve. The problem solutions require algebraic, trigonometric, and geometric techniques, all of which will be reviewed. You will become experienced in approaching complex, multi-step problems that are part of the Calculus curriculum. These problems will require you to use math studied in the past, as well as to practice explaining problems with a sketch, or verbal description. You will also be provided with ample practice with the graphing calculator.

Anyone in Precalculus is expected to develop a mastery of elementary functions that intertwine concepts from both Algebra and Geometry. The pace of the course requires you to grasp new theories and results on a daily basis. The objective of the three-week summer course is to prepare you to be successful in such a challenging and rigorous environment. The course will focus on reinforcing and establishing fundamental concepts from both algebra and geometry, such as properties of fractions, exponents, graphs and transformation of functions, triangles and trigonometric functions.

This workshop is only open to Harvard-Westlake students. In this 3-day intensive workshop, our panel of college admissions, counseling, and writing professionals will introduce you to the process of preparing a college essay. In addition to giving you valuable information about the current realities of the admissions process, our panel will focus on voice, the elements of your experiences, and interests that form compelling college essays. You will have multiple half hour-long, one-on-one sessions with a member of our panel as you grow your essays from the brainstorming and strategizing stage to a polished final draft. Beginning in the fall, HW Upper School Deans will work with their twelfth-grade counselees, both individually and in small groups, as they craft college essays. This workshop provides a unique opportunity for you to focus solely and intensely on the essay before classes begin in September. Due to the personal attention each student deserves and requires from this workshop, enrollment is limited. Please only register for one session. PREREQUISITES: HW Students Only

SAT Math Workshop thoroughly reviews the entire range of mathematical topics, format, and concepts covered on the Math SAT, which requires completion of Algebra 1, Geometry, and Algebra 2. There is sufficient practice time during this workshop for you to become comfortable and confident with the necessary algebra, geometry, and arithmetic. All typical problem concepts found on the SAT are covered in depth and put into proper perspective, so that they may be used as effective problem-solving tools, rather than remain as stumbling blocks. Useful problem-solving techniques for approaching a typical SAT are stressed. (Note: this class only reviews for the SAT Math Test, not the SAT Subject Test in math.)

This course is designed to prepare you for the verbal sections of the SAT, as well as for upper-level high school coursework across the disciplines, especially Honors and Advanced Placement English (both Language and Literature). While test-taking strategies will be discussed, the primary focus of the sessions will be the enhancement of the analytical reading and writing skills demanded by both the exam and rigorous high school classes. Working with actual practice tests, as well as independently-designed lessons, your instructor will review key principles of grammar, argument, rhetoric, and style, and teach you how to write a rhetorical analysis essay (a cross-curricular genre of writing that employs close reading skills to examine how writers use language to convey their points of view).

In this Chinese language course you will be introduced to and practice some effective strategies for Chinese reading. To enroll in this intermediate course, you must have completed at least two years of Chinese language instruction and know at least 700 different Chinese characters. Potential topics include: (1) Characters and Radicals, (2) Long Sentences analysis, (3) Paragraph reading, (4) Practice around: How to make a smart guess. PREREQUISITE: Two years formal Chinese Language instruction (minimum requirement).

This intensive three-week course will review the Algebra I skills essential to one's success in subsequent mathematics courses. Topics will include:  the Real Number System and its properties, Solving Linear Equations, Solving Multi-Step and Compound Linear Inequalities, Solving Quadratic Equations by Factoring, Solving Systems of Equations, Laws of Exponents, Monomial and Polynomial Expressions, Rational Expressions, Intro to Functions, Graphing, Problem Solving Approaches, and Numeracy.

This workshop is only open to Harvard-Westlake students. In this 3-day intensive workshop, our panel of college admissions, counseling, and writing professionals will introduce you to the process of preparing a college essay. In addition to giving you valuable information about the current realities of the admissions process, our panel will focus on voice, the elements of your experiences, and interests that form compelling college essays. You will have multiple half hour-long, one-on-one sessions with a member of our panel as you grow your essays from the brainstorming and strategizing stage to a polished final draft. Beginning in the fall, HW Upper School Deans will work with their twelfth-grade counselees, both individually and in small groups, as they craft college essays. This workshop provides a unique opportunity for you to focus solely and intensely on the essay before classes begin in September. Due to the personal attention each student deserves and requires from this workshop, enrollment is limited. Please only register for one session. PREREQUISITES: HW Students Only

This workshop is only open to Harvard-Westlake students. In this 3-day intensive workshop, our panel of college admissions, counseling, and writing professionals will introduce you to the process of preparing a college essay. In addition to giving you valuable information about the current realities of the admissions process, our panel will focus on voice, the elements of your experiences, and interests that form compelling college essays. You will have multiple half hour-long, one-on-one sessions with a member of our panel as you grow your essays from the brainstorming and strategizing stage to a polished final draft. Beginning in the fall, HW Upper School Deans will work with their twelfth-grade counselees, both individually and in small groups, as they craft college essays. This workshop provides a unique opportunity for you to focus solely and intensely on the essay before classes begin in September. Due to the personal attention each student deserves and requires from this workshop, enrollment is limited. Please only register for one session. PREREQUISITES: HW Students Only