Does your middle schooler love to write? Do they want the opportunity to grow that passion and discuss their writing with qualified mentors? If so, Worldwide Young Writers Workshop at the Greater Princeton branch of AYLUS (GPA) is the answer!
Our meetings are also insanely flexible; drop in whenever you want and attendance isn’t mandatory for every week. Some other events we have are talking with authors and writing competitions, so sign up at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSek_4xbog5f0dlPocvBP3bgERQvnn_X0EXo5kcIbk1AL9VPUg/viewform?usp=sf_link.
On June 9th for 2 hours, two writing enthusiasts, GPA members Karen Yang and Eliana Du, met virtually, and will continue doing so every Wednesday, with middle schoolers to write, explore, conference, and create. Class was online, through the software “Google Meets.”
As this class was our last class for this school year, we made it more relaxing and centered on free-writing. In the beginning, we discussed two fun facts about historical authors and talked about the environments in which we preferred to write. Then, we encouraged them to submit to our newsletter and another writing contest. To give them time to write, we proposed five prompts to choose from if they wanted to. Students spent 40 minutes free-writing while we gave them feedback. At the end of class, we played a fun, educational Kahoot game to wrap up this semester.
