AFRC121 - WRITING FOR CHILDREN: BEAUTY AND THE BOOK (AND THE BLOG)
Activity
SEM
Title (text only)
WRITING FOR CHILDREN: BEAUTY AND THE BOOK (AND THE BLOG)
Term session
0
Term
2016A
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
401
Section ID
AFRC121401
Meeting times
W 0200PM-0500PM
Meeting location
CTR FOR PGMS IN CONTEMP WTG - 111
Instructors
CARY, LORENE
Description
We will read our favorite kids' books, determine the kinds of books we love to read and write, and then write them, aiming at a clear voice appropriate to the story, and as much order or misrule as each writer's kid-muse demands. For inspiration, we'll visit the Maurice Sendak Collection at the Rosenbach Museum and Library and have a nostalgia wallow in the kids' section at the library. Then students write, fast-fast, drafts of stories to workshop , mull and revise. Yes, fun is required. For sure we'll critique, but first we'll try to outrun our interior grown-up! Workshopping happens first with student writer colleagues, and then with the real kids in schools, through our partner West Philadelphia Alliance for Children. Reading to children will give studentwriters a chance to hear where children laugh, see where they look scared, or notice when they begin to fidget. Returning with revisions will be a promise fulfilled, and an important marker in the literary life of everyone involved. Our class will act as a team of editors, then, to submit stories-andillustrations by authors and/or kids-on the upcoming website, SafeKidsStories.org.
Course number only
121
Cross listings
ENGL121401
Use local description
No