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Writing Wizards: Creative Writing Ongoing Course

In this ongoing weekly creative middle school writing class, your middle school writer will learn strategies and techniques to craft stories in a fun, interactive workshop taught by a published author and experienced writing teacher.
Kathie Harsch
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What's included

1 live meeting
50 mins in-class hours per week
Homework
1 hour per week. 1 hour per week after class to finish up writing, if student would like feedback from me about their writing.
Assessment
Informal assessment to encourage revision and editing skills.

Class Experience

US Grade 6 - 8
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If you do not see a time listed that works for your schedule, please message me with your time and time zone. I may have other openings that I can schedule a class for your learner!

Course Objective:
Writers will learn strategies and techniques to improve their writing skills through creative writing prompts, interactive lessons, short writing pieces, and sharing in this workshop style approach.

Each session is unique and does NOT build on each other.  

New learners can join at ANY time!

The class structure is:

Learners will be 
-viewing our session objectives
-learning the class expectations
-introducing themselves to each other
-learning a new writing strategy or technique from me
- doing a timed writing using that technique (writers will have 10-15 minutes to write in a Google doc or on paper)
-sharing what they've written so far

After class:
Writers can finish their pieces and send them to me for feedback. 

Mini-lesson topics:

For SATURDAYS Section July 9-30 and beyond

Week of July 9 Topic 1: Strategy: Asking questions and listing details when creating a character

Week of July 16 Topic 2: Technique: Action verbs and active voice sentences to describe summer

Week of July 23 Topic 3: Strategy: Mind Map of a place or fictional setting

Week of July 30 Topic 4: Technique: Point of view using a writing prompt

Week of August 9 Topic 5: Strategy: Using a timeline to plan writing a story

 I will be updating this as we go…

For TUESDAYS Section starting July 26- Aug 23 and beyond

Week of July 26 Topic 1: Strategy: Asking questions and listing details when creating a character

Week of Aug 2 Topic 2: Technique: Action verbs and active voice sentences to describe summer

Week of Aug 9 Topic 3: Strategy: Mind Map of a place or fictional setting

Week of Aug 16 Topic 4: Technique: Point of view using a writing prompt

Week of Aug 23 Topic 5: Strategy: Using a timeline to plan writing a story

 I will be updating this as we go…

Class Cancellations due to Scheduling Conflicts:
If you have signed up your learner for my class and you do not cancel before class begins, I do not offer refunds. Since your learner is taking a seat another learner would have had during that time, please make sure to cancel classes before class begins. Outschool sends out emails to everyone when a class will be starting usually a 1/2 hour before it begins. 

If your learner does miss a class, there are Zoom recordings of all classes available in the classroom where the Zoom link is to the class. Learners can access the recording and get materials distributed from the messages there.
 
If your learner is on my schedule, and they do not appear in class, I will message you to let you know.
Learning Goals
Students will learn writing strategies to help them get a piece of writing started and writing techniques to help them refine and shape their writing to express their thoughts and ideas. Additionally, students will learn how to give helpful feedback, and students will discuss their ideas about their topics and writing.
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Other Details

Parental Guidance
Access to Google docs or another online word processing app will allow students to write with more fluency and enjoyment. Parents would need to create a Google account for their child or allow them access to a Google account in order to use Google docs (or Office 365 Word). I will not have access to anything unless your student shares a file with me. Then, I can only view that file and make comments.
Supply List
👉🏻a spiral notebook or composition book 
👉🏻a pen or pencil 
👉🏻a new open Google doc for each weekly writing
External Resources
In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:
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Teacher expertise and credentials
Florida Teaching Certificate in English/Language Arts
Bachelor's Degree in English from University of South Florida
We will be using Nearpod for some mini-lessons that will make the course more interactive and fun for learning about parts of speech, mentor sentences, punctuation and other topics like that. Students do not need an account with Nearpod. They would use the code given during the live lesson in class by the teacher.

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$14

weekly
1x per week
50 min

Completed by 39 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 11-13
2-8 learners per class

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