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The first week of classes have come to an end for this California High School Summer Program, and an exciting weekend now awaits!

Looking forward to an exciting day of volleyball tournaments, music, plays, and more, students headed to the classroom early this morning to get some extra Euclid practice in before another round of demonstrations. This morning’s props proved the side-angle-side theorem — how to bisect a given angle, and how to bisect a finite straight line — all from first principles. “It was really fun!” Shared Virginia R. “I don’t normally like math, but I really enjoyed going up to the board after the props were done and trying to figure out the tutor’s questions for myself.” 

With yesterday’s Adoration hour still ringing in their hearts, many students attended Mass before lunch, dining on salmon and rice with a side of steamed veggies.

Today’s afternoon class was on Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling. This text, coupled with yesterday’s reading on Genesis, never fails to get the students enthused. In Fear and Trembling, Kierkegaard interprets four different scenarios that imagine how Abraham and Isaac might have thought, felt, and acted when God asked Abraham to sacrifice his only son. The scenes praise Abraham for his extraordinary faith but also raise deep questions concerning the reasonability of that faith. “It was my absolute favorite reading on my Summer Program,” prefect Lucy Summers recalls. 

And with that, the school week drew to a close! This afternoon and evening's activities will kickstart a fantastic weekend: the volleyball tournament, Stations of the Cross, a performance of The Importance of Being Ernest, and more. The Summer Program Blog will catch you up on all the highlights on Saturday morning. Until tomorrow!

More photos from the High School Summer Program

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