Who should join this class:
Students age 11-14 who have a true love of writing, an ability to participate in a classroom setting, a support system that will help the student cultivate and sustain a writing practice, and a desire to learn. Students will come out of the class with a process journal, several finished pieces, thicker writerly skin than that which they started class with, assignments for the summer, a whole new bag of tricks, and a stronger sense of their identity as a writer who knows WHY they write. Scholarship $ is available assuming we have full enrollment of ten writers.
What this class is NOT:
Boring, school-y, overly focused on spelling, repetitive, for kids whose parents WANT them to want to write, or designed to meet anybody’s Core Standards.