Write Now! Creative Writing Club

Each week, learners will enjoy a new flight of the imagination in this creative writing club!

Learners will develop their writing styles and expand their horizons with a variety of writing prompts and challenges. Club meetings will rotate between writing short stories, poetry, short skits/plays, & more!

At the beginning of class, I'll provide modeling with discussion and slides, helping learners to understand the selected format and goals. Learners will write independently for approximately 25 - 30 minutes, depending on the activity. (Depending on the week's topic, we might also do some writing together as a group.) Learners will have the opportunity to share their work with the group. I'll encourage learners to respond to other students' work using specific sentence stems, in order to promote a positive learning environment. 

Following class, some learners might like to expand upon our writing activities: revising, editing, or simply adding more to their work. Learners will always be welcome to post their expanded work in the Outschool "classroom" view, and I'll provide feedback.

Schedule:
Week of November 20: Writing autumnal poetry based on a rhyme scheme.
Week of November 27: Writing the text for a children's picture book (rhyming or not rhyming). 
Week of December 4: Write a story in which the reader selects different pathways.
Week of December 11: Free-write based on music (structure will be provided for those who want more structure); optional: someone else can read your work aloud to the group.
Week of December 18: Write a story in which the main character is mysterious.
Week of December 25: Write poetry that utilizes personification.
Week of January 1: Free-write based on works of art (structure will be provided for those who want more structure); optional: someone else can read your work aloud to the group).
Week of January 8: Writing a story with a setting in a fantastic dreamscape
Week of January 15: Writing a group story together, line-by-line
Week of January 22: Writing a story with an island setting 
Week of January 29: Writing free verse about a fascinating place
Week of February 5: Writing back-and-forth in the POV of fictional pen pals between Earth and another planet
More dates to be added!