The workshop approach encourages students to think of themselves as writers. The teacher serves as a facilitator helping to inspire, motivate, encourage and guide students in their exploration of the craft of writing. and in finding ways for each student to be excited about writing.
Perfect for all types of writers – struggling, or those who find writing boring or irrelevant, to advanced writers as well as those who already love to write.
With the focus being on the practical practice of writing itself, student’s individual interests and passions inform the writing topics, and they will write with a purpose – to read/be read to the rest of the group, to be performed by the rest of the group, to be shared on a blog, to be snail mailed to a political representative, or relative, or etc.
All kinds of genre will be explored – short stories, plays, scripts, essays, op-ed pieces, research reports, poetry, letter writing, speeches, comics, lyrics, etc. Students can come ready to be assigned writing projects, or with their own ideas of what they would like to have guidance on, and/or bring in pieces they have, or are already working on that they would like to make better.
Each student will be provided with “mentor text” – pieces that are written in the style he or she is working on, and each class will consist of a lesson focused on a particular aspect of writing (i.e., story development, sentence structure, punctuation, style elements, writing dialogue, etc.), project sharing time, individualized review/feedback sessions with revision notes, and, of course, time for writing!
Facilitated by Alexi Erekov with an assistant
Alexi received his Bachelor of Arts in Music, his Master’s in Elementary Education, and he is an incredibly engaging, skilled, and patient educator who has been teaching elementary and middle school students for nearly ten years.
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