There are no open spots for this class, but we found something similar!
5.0 (2) · Ages: 9-14
Zombies! - Learn How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse!
5.0 (10) · Ages: 4-7
Little Learners Creative Writing Club
5.0 (4) · Ages: 10-13
Creative Writing: Exploring Different Writing Styles (Level 1)
5.0 (81) · Ages: 6-8
Creative Writing for Young Children (Part 1 Ongoing)
5.0 (1) · Ages: 9-12
Writing: Writing the Beginning
5.0 (106) · Ages: 5-8
Beginning Creative Writing: Writer's Workshop
Let's End the World!
Morgan A. McLaughlin McFarland, MAPW
Popular
Average rating:4.9Number of reviews:(493)
Build a collaborative fictional world with your classmates, destroy it in an apocalypse of your choosing, and then write about it.
Class experience
US Grade 5 - 8
It's the end of the world as we know it, but we feel fine! In this writing class, students collaborate to develop a fictional world, full of people, cultures, animals, and landscapes. After they lovingly pour their attention into the details of this world, your young writers will work independently to destroy their perfect little creation with an apocalypse of their choosing, told through a short story. Students do not need any prior formal writing instruction, though familiarity with...
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.
Students will be provided with prompts and guidelines for creating and ending the fictional world, and should have access to a word processing program. I encourage the use of Google Docs, so students can access their work anywhere, and so that parents can also check on their students' progress if desired, but can also accept work from students submitted in .doc, .docx, and .rtf format.
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
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.
Popular
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
$60
for 4 classes1x per week, 4 weeks
60 min
Completed by 94 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 10-14
2-9 learners per class
