"On the Street Where You Live:
  Exploring Identity through Poetry and Prose"
 
Summer Writing Camp

Writing Camp Curriculum

Here is our preliminary framework for the Writing Camp curriculum. We will have a more traditional breakdown available soon, so please check back with our site.

Camp  Title

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

NOTES for Camp

8:30-9:00

Introductions
(Reading a Photograph and Images)

DRAMA

DRAMA
(Pantoum poetry)

DRAMA
(Finish Pantoum, begin name stories)

DRAMA
(Palimpsest of group writings)

Reflective journey piece from drama writings (palimpsest)

  9:05-10:00

Reading

My Place

(possibly Annie Dillard readings)

Activity:

Reader Response

Reading

 Seedfolks
(Read first story and after is teacher's choice)

Vignettes

Activity:
R.A.F.T. or
Perspective
Activity

 

Reading

 

“Chicago”

“Theme for English B”

“Digging”

“Sweet Home Alabama”

“NewYork State of Mind”

“Martian Sends Postcard Home”

Reading

"On the Day You Were Born" - research

Cisneros – “My Name”

Jhumpa Lihiri
“The Namesake”

Rehearsal/

Revising for Reading
Presentation

Script-Scoring

Reading and re-telling each others’ works

 

 

 

 

10:05-

11:00

Writing

Activity:

Map of Neighborhood
(boundaries, neighborhoods)

Place

Writing

Activity:

Compose a Vignette
(person, place)

Writing

Activity:

“I am from”
Poems

Writing

Activity:

Writing

Triptych (memoir writing – three stories)

Writing

Activity:

“My journey as a writer” - visual roadmap of growth

Personal and Camp Evaluation

 

Break

11:00-

11:30

Guest Speaker/Games/
Activities/Snacks

Adam Selzer - Webcam, possibly video streaming
 

Rex Kienel
and Mimi Dyer

Man Martin

Scott Smoot

Refreshments and Family presentations

 

11:35-

12:30

Technology

Blog Intro.

Technology

(Revisions)

Technology

(Revisions)

Performance

(Tech as necessary)

Presentations cont’d (Disk presentations)

 

 Writing Camp Homepage ~ Camp Location and Facilities ~ Teacher and Guest Writer Biographies ~ Registration Forms ~ Intercontinental Connections