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2025 WINTER & SPRING BRIX PROGRAM

PROGRAM & SCHEDULE

Regular Session: JAN 5 - JUNE 20

Mid-Winter Break Session: Feb 16 - Feb 21

REGULAR SESSION CLASSES

Book Club: Grade 1

Monday 4:30pm-6:00pm

Book Club: Grade 2

Monday 6:00pm-7:30pm

Book Club: Grade 3

Wednesday 3:30pm-5:00pm

Book Club Grade 4

Friday 5:00pm-7:00pm

Book Club Grade 5

Friday 6:30pm-8:30pm

Literature Language & Writing G6

Tuesday 6:30pm-8:30pm

Literature Language & Writing G7

ERW/PSAT: G8

Saturday 2:00pm-4:00pm

Saturday 10:30am-12:30pm

Literature Focused RW + SAT Grammar

Digital SAT

Reading: Jay Sung + Writing: Heather Oh

Saturday 4:00pm-8:00pm

(Intensive Online Course/ 2-3 mock exam/week)

Writing Intensive Class G7-9/ Wed. 5pm-7pm

"Write like a historian: craft journal-style narratives, then analyze events using evidence and reasoning."

New Class

Historical Writing Lab: Journals & Evidence

This course immerses students in the discipline of historical writing, combining narrative voice with analytical rigor. Students will learn to write as historians do: first by crafting journal-style narratives that capture perspective, context, and lived experience, and then by transitioning into evidence-driven analysis that explains cause, consequence, and significance.

Throughout the course, students will practice analyzing primary and secondary sources, selecting relevant evidence, and constructing clear, defensible claims supported by historical reasoning. Emphasis is placed on skills central to AP History preparation, including contextualization, sourcing, and argument development. Students will learn to move beyond description to explain why events mattered and how they shaped broader historical patterns.

By engaging in structured writing, document-based analysis, and revision, students will strengthen their ability to write analytically sophisticated responses and develop foundational skills essential for AP-style short-answer questions, DBQs, and long essays. This course is ideal for students seeking to sharpen their historical thinking, improve clarity and depth in their writing, and gain confidence in tackling advanced history coursework.

Each class open with 3+ students

MID-WINTER BREAK SESSION

SSAT (Middle/ Upper)

This one-week intensive SSAT prep course helps students reinforce reading comprehension and verbal reasoning skills tested on the SSAT. Through targeted instruction, strategy-based practice, and timed exercises, students will build accuracy and test-taking endurance. The course emphasizes vocabulary development, reading strategies, and clear analogy relationships to help students approach the SSAT with greater confidence.

Creative Writing (Recommend for G4-G6)

This one-week camp is for students who love to tell stories! Students will explore creative writing through short stories and playful writing activities while learning to develop complex characters, vivid settings, and exciting plots. With guided prompts, students will strengthen their storytelling skills while bring their ideas to life on page.

5 Types of Writing (Recommend for G7-G9)

This course is designed for students seeking to refine and elevate the writing skills essential for long-term academic success. Students will deepen their understanding of structure, voice, clarity, and complexity across multiple genres. The course will explore personal narrative, research-based essays, persuasive rhetoric, and literary analysis writing, with an emphasis on purposeful craft and evidence-based thinking.

Students will closely analyze a variety of literary texts, ranging from literature passages to nonfiction articles, examining author’s purpose, rhetorical choices, organization, and stylistic techniques. Students will then apply these strategies to produce their own polished writing. Instruction will emphasize focused thesis development, precise diction, varied syntax, logical reasoning, and smooth integration of textual evidence.

In addition, students will develop essential academic skills such as researching credible sources, synthesizing information, and strengthening analytical commentary. Through targeted feedback and revision cycles, students will learn to move beyond summary toward deeper insight and sophistication.

AP CONTINUOUS PROGRAM

From Mid-Winter Break to AP Exam

A structured, long-term AP preparation program designed to transition students from foundational review to full MCQ and FRQ mastery by exam day.

This AP continuous program begins during mid-winter break and meets once a week leading up to the AP exam. Due to limited weekly instructional hours, the course is intentionally structured as a progressive, connected curriculum rather than a short-term crash course.

Students will build content knowledge, analytical reading skills, and evidence-based writing gradually, with each phase preparing them for full AP-style multiple-choice and free-response performance. By the final phase of the program, students will be fully transitioned into complete MCQ and FRQ sets under exam-aligned conditions.

AP English Language & Composition – Continuous Reading, MCQ, and Writing Program

The AP English Language & Composition program focuses on developing rhetorical reading and writing skills over time, with an emphasis on both MCQ strategy and AP-style essay writing.

Early sessions prioritize close reading of nonfiction texts, rhetorical analysis, and grammar refinement. As the program progresses, students increasingly practice AP-style multiple-choice questions alongside structured writing assignments, gradually moving toward full MCQ sets and timed Free-Response Questions (FRQs), including rhetorical analysis and argument essays.

Rhetorical reading and analysis of nonfiction texts
AP-style MCQ question types and strategies
Evidence-based analytical and argumentative writing
Grammar, syntax, and stylistic clarity
Timed MCQ and FRQ practice aligned with AP rubrics

AP US HISTORY – Period Review, MCQ, and FRQ Mastery Program

The AP U.S. History program is designed as a cumulative, period-based course that begins with structured historical event summaries and thematic review. Each instructional phase reinforces content understanding through unit-based MCQ practice and gradually introduces AP-style Free-Response Questions.

As students move through the program, MCQ sets expand in length and complexity, and writing instruction progresses from SAQs to DBQs and LEQs. By the final stage, students will complete full MCQ sections and FRQs under exam-aligned timing and expectations.

Period-based event summaries and thematic frameworks
Unit test MCQs with stimulus analysis
Historical reasoning skills (causation, comparison, CCOT)
SAQ, DBQ, and LEQ structure and strategy
Full MCQ and FRQ set preparation for exam readiness

AP English Language & AP U.S. History are offered in person to support intensive discussion, live writing feedback, and classroom-based analysis.

Live Online AP Courses (Zoom-Based Instruction)

AP Calculus / AP Physics / AP Biology / AP Chemistry

These AP science and math courses are delivered through live, interactive online instruction, taught by highly specialized instructors with 5–10 years of AP teaching and test-prep experience.

Each instructor focuses exclusively on AP-level coursework and exam preparation, working extensively with released questions and exam-aligned problem sets. Classes emphasize conceptual understanding, efficient problem-solving strategies, and mastery of common AP exam question patterns.

Online instruction allows students to access subject-specific experts whose teaching is refined through years of direct exam preparation experience.