Writing For Fun

Course Description

This course is designed to explore the messiness of writing! We’ll spend class time working on generating ideas and brainstorming, which will act as a springboard for future writings. This is a great place to start if students are hesitant to write or are always saying, “I can’t think of what to write about!” When students leave, they will have many story and essay ideas. Materials will be provided electronically. Each week, a writing assignment will be given and when class meets again, students will have the opportunity to share their writings. This class is designed to associate writing with fun so that a positive relationship with writing will be established.

Tentative Schedule

Week One: Seeing Ourselves as Writers-This week will focus on changing our perspectives from writing as a difficult task into an challenging, but accomplishable. We’ll begin the journey to see ourselves of writers, starting with telling our own stories.

Week Two: Many Topics from One Idea-The second week will build upon the previous week. Students will learn how to take one idea and workshop the idea to create several different writing prompts in a variety of genres.

Week Three: Writing from a Prompt-The third week will explore a variety of prompts. Students will leave with several ideas and several materials to give them prompts for future writing ideas.

Week Four: Lists, Labels, and Language--Oh, My!- We'll spend this week learning how to lists, labels, and language provide a launch pad for our writing.

Dates & Tuition Fees

Ages 8-10
Meet 9/8, 9/15, 9/22, 9/29
Time: 1:00-2:00 EST

Ages 10-13
Meet 9/9, 9/16, 9/23, 9/30
Time: 2:30-3:30 EST

Fees: $25 payable via Paypal
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