Aspiring Writer's Club || Ages 10-13

For aspiring writers, interacting with other writers and receiving feedback is valuable. In this ongoing class, aspiring writers will do just that. They will meet with a small group of their peers, share their writing, and give and receive constructive criticism. The discussion will be overseen and moderated by me, their instructor. I will guide them in learning both how to give feedback to others and how to receive feedback themselves. They will learn helpful strategies for explaining what is excellent about a piece of writing and what needs work in a way that builds their peers up instead of tearing them down. They will also learn how to graciously accept both positive and negative feedback on their writing. 

During each meeting, writers will share something they have written with the group. This can be an essay, a chapter from a book they're writing, a poem, or anything else they've written that they'd like to share. After each writer shares, I and their fellow writers will each share positive feedback as well as a critique of their writing.  

Writers can submit the pieces they plan to share directly to me no less than 24 hours before a class meeting. If they do, I will provide more personalized feedback on both their grammar and the overall piece itself by class time. This can be done through Google docs. Writers should create a shareable link to their Google doc, give anyone with the link permission to comment, and then send me the link. Due to time constraints, I will not be able to give feedback on anything submitted less than 24 hours before each class meeting.