Children's Creative Writing Class Series

Encourage your child's love of writing! Jennifer Trafton will help young storytellers in grades 3 - 5 improve their creative writing skills. Jennifer's debut novel, The Rise and Fall of Mount Majestic, received a starred review in Publishers Weekly and is a nominee for Tennessee's 2012 Volunteer State Book Award.

Each class will be different, and students may come to one class or all 4. Classes will be held every Thursday in March from 4:30-5:30, and the class fee is $15.00 per class. Each student must register online, and there is a maximum of 10 students per class.

Painting with Words: Thursday, March 7^th

A good writer is in love with words--the way they look, the way they sound, and the way they come together to make pictures in our imagination. Writing helps us see the world in new ways, like an artist. In this creative writing workshop, kids will be "painting" pictures with words, then using their word-paintings to  practice descriptive writing that uses all five senses.
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The Music of Words: Thursday, March 14^th

Discover how words whistle, whoosh, gallop, sizzle, and splash! This poetry workshop will explore the wonderful noises words make as we play with rhyme, rhythm, alliteration, and onomatopoeia.
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Treasure Maps: Thursday, March 21^st

Where can you find the Last Dinosaur's Funny Bone? How do you get to the Gruesome Pit of Grossness? What lies hidden in the Place Where Stories Are Born? Fantasy lovers will enjoy this opportunity to draw a map of their own imagined world, then hide a treasure there and write creative directions to avoid pitfalls, encounter adventures, and find the X that marks the spot. 
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Creative Creatures: Thursday, March 28^th

This creative writing workshop is all about animals! Kids will draw their own fantastical creatures, then learn about fables and "Just So" stories in order to write short tales about the animals they've invented.
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