Teens learn essential skills for storytelling and how to get published.
Are you raising the next C. S. Lewis or Jane Austen? Help your student develop their fiction-writing talents.
Writing Fiction [In High School]: Bringing Your Stories to Life will help students…
• Build scenes
• Get published
• Ramp up the conflict
• Hook their readers
• Select a point of view• Write engaging dialogue
• Create empathetic protagonists
• Describe settings and characters
• Critique themselves and other writers
• And much, much more!
Advanced Fiction Writing Skills
This full-year fiction course is packed with important writing and editing skills. By taking it in a class setting, students gain valuable peer edit skills. (Note: there is no literature component)
REQUIRED TEXTS:
Writing Fiction in High School by Sharon Watson (available through this link at a 25% discount, or at booksellers online)
The Last Book in the Universe by Rodman Philbrick
The course includes:
-28 weekly zoom classes
-a homework plan for each week of the course
-all grading
-mid-term and final reports
-individualized support for your student via email
-the option to add extra tutoring for task-specific needs your student may have.
Course curriculum
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