After School Program
Writing Workshop
Tuesday and Thursday
Time: 3:30 – 4:30 for 8 weeks (Closed on School holidays)
Location: To be announced (Host School Needed)
Cost: $100
Public Speaking Club
Monday and Wednesday
Time: 3:30 – 4:30 for 16 weeks (Closed on School holidays)
Location: To be announced (Host School Needed)
Dues: $125
Summer Schedule (4 week Program)
Writing Workshop
Date: To Be Announced (Session One)
To Be Announced (Session Two)
Time: 11 am – 1 pm
Days: Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday for
Location: To Be Announced, Madison AL
Award Ceremony: TBA
Fees for Summer Sessions: Due 7 days prior to session start date. You may pay online at www.giftedgenie.com. Most credit cards accepted (No American Express)
Cost: $125.00 per child (ask me about family rate)
Workshops are specifically intended for ages 7 and up.
Workshop Goals
• Build a safe and productive writing community
• Establish Workshop rituals and rules
• Develop the understanding that writing has meaning
• Generate lots of thinking, talking and writing.
• Publish a completed story (Leather Bound Hard Copy)
Introduction of Story Plan –
PART ONE: Introduce the character and the setting. What is the mood of the character? Is she/he excited about something? What is she/he looking forward to? What has she/he planned? Is she/he bored?
PART TWO: Character faces a problem. What is the mood of the character?
1. Angry
2. Upset
3. Puzzled
4. How does she/he express the mood?
PART THREE: This is the part where the character is inactive, passive, but the character’s mind is busy with thoughts, ideas worries. She/he thinks about the current problem, why it had to happen, wonders how it will get resolved. The students are asked to set this scene in their mind. She/he also contrasts the mood in PART ONE (excitement) and PART TWO (sorrow/ anger). This is also a time when the idea for a resolution may begin to develop in the character’s mind. Or perhaps this is the planning stage in a revenge story such as Karate Kid, where the kid trains.
PART FOUR: The Solution.
The character no longer faces the problem. As a twist, they could bring in another problem at the end.
Editing/Revising/Further developing
Hard Copy Review by Conferring
Ready For Print
Award Ceremony: Presentation of Certificate/Published Story in Hard Leather Bound Copy