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Wednesday, April 7, 2021
At Great Books Summer Program we’re celebrating our 20th year of helping students learn to think like scientists (or logicians, detectives, clear thinkers!).
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Wednesday, July 1, 2020
Our 2020 summer program of Great Books Online is in the history books and our students' feedback is absolutely inspiring!
Hear what our campers and parents say about Great Books Online's unquie live class learning style and why it is a stand out program for literary exploration, writer's workshops, critical thinking, and civil discourse skills.
Here are their responses to the question: What would you tell a student interested in the Great Books Summer Program?
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Friday, February 28, 2020
Giving a TED Talk is the goal of a lifetime for some people, but it requires a certain bravery to put yourself out there! For Great Books camper Indigo, a 10th-grade student in California, it was an exciting opportunity to try something new. Her topic, Technology, Teens, and Taking Responsibility, details why she prefers using a flip phone in today's high-tech world.
This multi-faceted teenager isn't afraid of a challenge. In fact, Indigo says she embraced the joys of risk-taking at Great Books. "If I had just one life lesson to encompass the four summers I have spent at Great Books, it would be that the challenging path is the one worth taking," she said.
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Monday, February 3, 2020
For Sebastian of Washington, D.C., Great Books is a place where his creativity flourishes. In fact, the talented 15-year-old was just given a Silver Key Award in the 2020 DC Metro Scholastic Writing Awards competition. He won the award for his short story, The No. 3 Bus, which he wrote during Great Books Writer’s Workshop at Amherst College last summer.
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Tuesday, December 10, 2019
There is no one of type of Great Books' camper. Meet Caleb from Illiois who attended our program for the first time at Northwestern University last summer. This 10th-grade wonder brings a bit of everything too the table: Academics. Creativity. Talent. And he is a generous volunteer too.
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Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Evelyn from Pennsylvania shares her first experience at Great Books this past summer, attending our Writer’s Workshop. The high school junior attended this program for burgeoning writers to hone their literary craft with students from around the world .
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Thursday, October 17, 2019
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Monday, September 9, 2019
What they did on their summer vacation: At the Great Books program at Amherst College, reading is a joy, not a chore
At first glance, it looked like a scene from a typical day at Amherst College: about 100 students in a lecture hall, on tiered seating on three sides of the room, notebooks and digital devices like iPads at hand, while a professor stood in the well of the room, looking up at some of the young people seated above him.
The subject matter seemed a serious one. Discussion revolved at first around “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” Harriet Beecher Stowe’s seminal anti-slavery novel that became a bestseller in the 1850s as the United States moved ever closer to civil war. “That was a time of growing division,” the professor said. “How different is our country today?”
In this case, though, it was early July, and the professor, Ilan Stavans, was wearing shorts and no shoes; as for the students, they looked a little young to be in college. They were, in fact, high school students, from their mid-to-late teens and from across the country and overseas, who had come to Amherst to do something not usually associated with summer camps: read.
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Wednesday, May 15, 2019
Marijke, who is celebrating her sixth summer at Great Books this year, shares her perspective on how Great Books continues to facilitate her growth both personally and academically. This fall she will be an incoming freshman at Middlebury College in VT, one of the finest liberal arts colleges in the country.
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Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Leigh is an enthusiastic Great Books' alumna who attended our Amherst College program for two weeks each summer for six years. Today, she is a student at Duke University School of Law. Leigh offered to share her perspective on Great Books and its impact on her life journey.
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Thursday, January 17, 2019
A trip to Literary Dublin is a breathtaking journey through the city and its suburbs including coastal towns and seaside villages with spectacular scenery and landscapes. It is also a book lover's paradise because some of literatures' most prolific authors and writers have called Dublin home. They include James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Jonathan Swift, Bram Stoker, William Butler Yeats, and George Bernard Shaw.
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Thursday, November 8, 2018
Live the literature! Great Book's Oxford University program takes students on an adventure-filled journey through English literature. Each morning begins with university-style seminars. reading classic texts, engaging in deep conversations and debate while honing critical thinking skills. Afternoons are spent exploring the bookish treasures found throughout Oxford. Two days are spent heading out of town to visit key points of interest in the English countryside.
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Tuesday, October 16, 2018
Here at Great Books' headquarters, the weather is turning crisp, the leaves are turning color, and candy corn can be found in every store. It is a sure sign Halloween is right around the corner, so here are a few spooky literary picks to get you ready for the holiday celebrating ghosts, goblins, and ghouls.
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Friday, October 5, 2018
Great Books and Big Ideas. It’s both the driving philosophy and founding principle on which the Great Books Summer Program was founded more than 17 years ago.
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Thursday, April 13, 2017
This month features Great Books Stanford's resident BFFs: Tatie Balabanis ( Stanford '19 ) and Martina Lentino ( UChicago '19 ). Both Tatie and Martina hail from Miami, and their friendship began in a fated gym class during their freshman year of high school.
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Monday, March 13, 2017
Meet UChicago students Zak Lutz and Dan Ackerman, our tag-team duo for a special double issue of the Nerd of the Month! Need any reassurance of their collective nerdiness? Take a peek at question #8, where they both cite the UChicago library as their favorite aspect of university life.
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Wednesday, June 1, 2016
Meet Michael Vaclav, Shakespearean monologue expert, Great Books Eagle Scout, Amherst Lead PA, and our final Nerd of the Month before camp!
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Friday, April 29, 2016
Eve taught a class on rare books and manuscripts for Great Books in the summer of 2015. They looked at some medieval manuscripts and early printed books at Amherst College Special Collections, and had a “traveling scriptorium” day where they practiced writing with a quill pen and parchment.
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