This English language course is designed and focused on building English language skills. It offers intensive instruction in reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Students will engage in interactive lessons and targeted practice aimed at continuing to expand vocabulary, improving grammar, and increasing language acquisition and fluency. Success in this course may lead to higher placement or exemption from ELL courses during the regular academic year 

In this six-week course, we will complete units on the level of overall economic activity, aggregate demand and aggregate supply, unemployment and inflation, economic growth and sustainable level of debt, economics of inequality and poverty, and demand-side and supply-side policies.  Students may choose to take this class for credit or not.  In either case, they are expected to attend all sessions, participate appropriately, and complete all activities (both in-class and homework) as assigned. 

This course shows students the ways in which human interactions shape their economic status. This will lead students to question just how rational the choices people—themselves included—are in a system of competing incentives and disincentives. This course covers fundamental topics including supply and demand, and uses model-based, quantitative, and qualitative methods of analysis. 

Learning about history can be overwhelming, but the addition of a narrative and context can lead to a deeper understanding of our past. Over six weeks, two young adult novels, and a few film screenings, we will explore lesser known aspects of history, comparing the fictional representations with the real world events. 

This course will focus on the major art movements of the 19th and 20th centuries.  Throughout the course students will develop visual thinking strategies to analyze artwork, complete research projects on both artists and art movements, and participate in group discussions with their peers.  This course encourages critical thinking and analysis, research and communication skills, and establishing interdisciplinary connections. 

Integrated Math focuses on core skills to prepare you for the next level of mathematics no matter your class in the fall.  With a focus on important core skills throughout Algebra and Geometry, each lesson will have two major goals. 
First – to introduce/re-introduce concepts, keeping them fresh and avoiding the summer slider. Second – to delve deeper into each subject, through incrementally higher level problems (based on each student’s mastery) and discussions on the math behind the topics – how to make sense of each topic from a basic perspective. 

Leadership is more than just a title. This course helps students identify their leadership style, develop a personal philosophy, and learn from inspiring leaders. We’ll focus on communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and problem-solving. Students who complete both modules will apply these skills through a real-world leadership project in a setting of their choosing and an opportunity to further their leadership through the Cheshire Academy Student Leadership program during the 2025-2026 academic year. 

The nature of reality at its most fundamental, irreducible scale is unintuitive and seemingly strange. However, our curious and extraordinary description of the physics of particles is the scientific theory that has held up best to experimental scrutiny. In this course, students will develop an understanding of the concepts of fundamental physics, such as quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, and the standard model of particle physics. Ultimately, students will form a better understanding of the trillions upon trillions of wonderful interactions which culminate in our experience of the universe and how these incredibly small constituents comprise our reality.