Books and Nature

Dates: July 21- 25, 2025 Price: $500/week

Taught by Sanford Middle School teacher Anthony Bushek, this course will give students the opportunity to prepare some of the skills that will be vital to their success in sixth grade English! Students will engage in a week of activities and assignments balanced around fifty percent reading and discussion skills and fifty percent creative and argumentative writing skills. Reading assignments will be a blend of choice read and teacher assigned short stories, which will heavily focus on reading comprehension strategies and understanding a few broad thematic elements. Our writing activities will be centered around a composition journal, where students will keep all their major and minor writing assignments, from creative writing exercises to longer prompted responses. Students will specifically learn about the ins-and-outs of paragraph writing, the basics of grammatical structure and rules, and effectively translating their thoughts onto the page in an organized manner. This program runs from 9am - 12pm. Children will then eat lunch and join their group in ESF's Senior Camp: Upper Division for remainder of the afternoon. Pickup is at 3pm.