Summer 2003 Youth Programs

Creative Writing Day Camps & Workshops for Children & Teens

For details about SummerWrite 2003, including registration fees, see the SummerWrite 2003 General Information Page.

Week 7: August 12–16

¡Bienvenidos! Fun With Spanish

• JY3-M1E7
• Ages: 6–8
• Instructor: Julie Harris [ bio ]
• Mornings, 9–11:45 a.m.
• Limit: 10
• Note additional supply fee: $4

¡Bienvenidos! Welcome! Come join us as we explore the Spanish language and Hispanic culture. This fun, action-packed week will include:

• trying the Mexican hat dance
• building your own yummy burrito, and
• breaking a piñata

Learn new words, play traditional Hispanic games, sing Spanish songs, and see and hear things from Mexico and Spain.

Rhyming, Rhythm and Movement

• JY3-D1F7
• Ages: 6–8
• Instructor: Reenah Golden [ bio ]
• Afternoons, 12:15–3 p.m.
• Limit: 10

Summertime means sidewalk rhymes!

We will learn traditional rhymes, poetry, music and creative movement as an introduction to performance art and the magic of the spoken word…and also experiment! Some techniques we use will include: rhyming games with movement, writing poetry to music and acting out poems and children's rhymes.

Each participant will then create rhymes, make up movements to go with them, and teach them to the group.

Writers & Cooks

• JY3-M2E7
• Ages: 8–12
• Instructor: Ann Lerminaux [ bio ]
• Mornings, 9 a.m.–Noon
• Note: Held at the Cornell Cooperative Extension near Highland Park [ map ]
• Note: Additional supply and ingredients fee: $50

Cook up a storm and write your own cookbook in this busy, creative (and tasty) workshop for budding young cooks and writers. Taught by a cooking instructor, this workshop will take place in a local state-of–the-art kitchen. Participants will work from a daily menu; cooking, eating and discussing the meal for each day. They will write (and illustrate ) the recipes (including their own creative variations) that reflects their experience.

We will send you directions to the teaching kitchen we will use.

Book Arts and Beyond
All Day Session

• JY3-A3C7
• Ages: 9–13
• Instructors: M.J. Iuppa [ bio ] & Todd Smith [ bio ]
• Full Day, 9 a.m.–4 p.m.
• $195 General Public; 10% discount for W&B Members
• Note: Additional supply fee: $8

Books are wonderful vehicles for time travel!

Since ancient times, the book has developed various forms. We will look at examples, then make our own scrolls, posters, postcards, hand-bound books, and pop-up books with hidden surprises. We will fill our pages with epic stories, poetry and other forms of creative writing, as well as art and photos.

An active imagination is the only tool you’ll need to turn plain pages into magnificent creations. On the final day of the workshop we will display an exhibit of our work for friends and family to enjoy.

A Novel Idea

• JY3-F5G7
• Ages: 13–18
• Instructor: T. Lucien (Tim) Wright [ bio ]
• Mornings, 9 a.m.–Noon.

You read: SciFi, Fantasy, Historical Novels and Autobiographies. You know you could write a novel if you just had a little help with the process.

• How do you go about getting started?
• What elements make for compelling characters and situations in a first chapter?
• Once you have it started, how do you keep it going, work through your character and plot complexities, and finish it?

Together, you and your classmates will examine methods that work for writing your own book with chapters.

Writing Short Plays

• JY3-D5H7
• Ages: 13–18
• Instructor: John Cieslinski [ bio ]
• Afternoons, 1–4 p.m.

Have you ever thought “I could write a play (or a movie or a TV comedy)”? Put words in other people’s mouths! You will look at the elements of playwriting, especially conflict and character development. You will use these elements to create short plays (approximately 5-20 minutes) of your own. These plays will be cast from the class and read as a final project.

Writing the College Admissions Essay I

• JY3-N6B7
• Ages: High School
• Instructor: Ken Wilson [ bio ]
• Mornings, 9 a.m.–Noon

Learn to write impressive essays for admission applications, the kind that wow admissions officers by what you say and how you say it, that advertise you: creative, curious, intelligent, hard-working and involved. Bring any actual questions from college applications. We will have an admissions officer look at your essays and give you feedback.

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