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Let's End & Rebuild the World! (Summer Camp)
Morgan A. McLaughlin McFarland, MAPW
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Build a world, destroy it, and rebuild it in this collaborative summer writing camp. #creative
Class experience
US Grade 5 - 8
A summer camp–length mash-up of my popular Let's End the World! and Let's Rebuild the World! classes, Let's End & Rebuild the World! (Summer Camp) provides students with an opportunity to work collaboratively and independently to create, destroy, and then rebuild a fictional world. Working from prompts and with specific guidelines, students will write about their world as it approaches its untimely end, as the apocalypse unfolds, and in the aftermath of their fictional doomsday. Once their...
Outside of writing, editing, and teaching, I collect apocalypses. I have explored the various ends of the world as a writer through fiction and nonfiction, and am a regular scifi & fantasy convention panelist on the topic of apocalyptic media. As a lifelong consumer of apocalyptic media – books, comics, television, movies, music, even recipes – I believe the genre is uniquely well suited to motivating young writers and offers an infinite number of possible worlds to create (and destroy) with words. Apocalypse and dystopian media resonates with tween and young teen readers and holds a prominent position on the Young Adult shelves in libraries and book stores, providing a great motivator for students to improve their own writing through exploring the end of the world.
Homework Offered
Students may work on their world's at home. This isn't required, but if a learner has more to write than they can complete in a one hour block, they are welcome to continue working outside of class time.0 - 1 hours per week outside of class
Assessments Offered
Grades Offered
Considering widespread disasters and global crises can be frightening for some young writers. While all work produced for this class will be appropriate for the indicated age range in terms of content, parents should feel free to inform me of any particular phobias or other fears their children need to avoid over the course of this class.
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Average rating:4.9Number of reviews:(493)
I teach creative writing, gaming, and popular media & culture to learners from age 8 through high school. I offer a range of courses that focus on specific literary genres, some traditional and some popular/contemporary, as well as multiple...
Group Class
$70
for 5 classes5x per week, 1 week
60 min
Completed by 19 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 10-14
3-6 learners per class
