Write About It! Expressing Yourself through Creative Writing

Description

Join us to learn how to express yourself through creative writing through this fun, engaging and personalized course. Students will learn to find their voice by using their own narrative and how to express that voice in a compelling way to an audience. Students will spend the course reading, writing and revising, both individually and in peer groups. We will look at novels and a plethora of short stories and poems as examples as students explore their own writing as they produce short stories, essays, book chapters or poems. As a culminating activity, students will create a blog/online publishing platform where they can both archive their work and share it publicly. Join us to learn how to express yourself through creative writing through this fun, engaging and personalized course. Students will learn to find their voice by using their own narrative and how to express that voice in a compelling way to an audience. Students will spend the course reading, writing and revising, both individually and in peer groups. We will look at novels and a plethora of short stories and poems as examples as students explore their own writing as they produce short stories, essays, book chapters or poems. As a culminating activity, students will create a blog/online publishing platform where they can both archive their work and share it publicly.

Essential Questions:

Why are we storytellers?
Why do we rely on story/narrative to communicate the human condition?
How do stories connect and ask us to see the humanity in others?