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Talaria Collaborative Writing Seminar

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Aim: The goal of this online program is to provide students with collaborative writing opportunities that not only helps them improve their writing skills, but also increases their love of writing. We want to help students learn to become excited by the writing process and come to view it as an enjoyable, creative, and intellectually stimulating process.

 

Overview:

 

  • Students will meet once a week for one hour with their writing coach and 2-3 other students; these groups are organized by age and ability.

 

  • Students will be given the opportunity to collaborate with their writing coach and their other group members on different types of writing assignments (e.g., persuasive speeches, elevator pitches, scientific articles, plays, poems, short stories, research projects);

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  • Each month, students will complete 2 or more written works as a group that will allow them to practice different styles of writing and explore different literary themes and academic disciplines (e.g., history, law, government, Earth and Space science, environmental science, health, economics, psychology, etc.); and

 

  • Students will be given the option to complete additional independent writing assignments each week as homework.
     

Advanced Writer’s Workshop: Mastering Written English

 

Aim:  An 11-week course that aims to support proficient and advanced writers in grades 7-10

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Overview of advanced writing skills:
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  • Academic vocabulary,

  • Advanced syntax,

  • Persuasive diction,

  • Rhetorical and literary devices,

  • Engagement tactics,

  • Critical thinking strategies,

  • Line of reasoning, and

  • Discursive writing.

     

Collegiate Writer's Workshop​
 

Aim:  An 11-week course that aims to support proficient and advanced writers in grades 11-12

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Overview of advanced writing skills:​​

  • Academic vocabulary,

  • Advanced syntax,

  • Persuasive diction,

  • Rhetorical and literary devices,

  • Engagement tactics,

  • Line of reasoning, and

  • College essay writing.
     

Students will complete a college essay for a prompt of their choosing.

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Writing Competition Workshop

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  • Each month, students in 3rd-12th grade will work on a submission for a specific writing contest; students are grouped by age and ability.

  • Students will compete in nationwide and worldwide short story, essay, poetry, playwright and movie script writing competitions.

  • Students will be given lessons on how to create and improve their compositions.

  • They will be supported throughout the submission process (e.g., brainstorming, editing, revising).

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Creative Group-Writing Workshop

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Aim:  An 11-week course that aims to increase students’ interest in and love of writing.

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  • Students will play writing games and work with their group members to complete creative works of their choosing:

    • Short stories (science fiction, fantasy fiction, historical fiction, magical realism, satire, etc.),

    • Podcasts,

    • Plays and movie scripts,

    • Poetry (sonnets, pastoral poetry, lyrical poetry, haiku, etc.),

    • Investigative journalism,

    • Memoirs,

    • Reviews,

    • Editorials,

    • Speeches, etc.​​​​​​​​​

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Tuition for all Seminars:
 

  • $250 monthly fee for 4 weekly group meetings.

 

  • Additional 1-1 sessions are $80 an hour.

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