Advanced Student Workshops

These two-hour Advanced classes for students Grades 5–10 will present the Structure & Style Units 4/6, 5, and 7 using key word outlining and selected stylistic techniques.

Cost: Introductory Student workshops: $30.00/participant
(Save with the Early Registration price of $30 through April 6, 2017. After this date the regular registration price is $35.)
Teachers and parents may observe at no cost.

Grade levels are approximate. Class size is limited to 30 participants.

• Research Writing: Grades 5–10: 8:30 AM–11:00 AM
  Units 4 and 6: Students will learn the skill of choosing limited facts from multiple references; fusing their outlines, and applying selected stylistic techniques.
• Writing from Pictures: Grades 5–10: 11:30 AM–2:00 PM
  Unit 5: Students will be taught to use pictures as a source for inspiration in writing while learning to write event descriptions, often with humorous results.
• Inventive Writing: Grades 5–10: 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
  Unit 7: Students will learn to tackle the “blank page” by retrieving information from their brains, creating a key word outline, writing a multiple paragraph essay, and applying selected stylistic techniques.