Summer 2005 Youth Programs

Creative Writing Day Camps & Workshops for Children & Teens

For details about SummerWrite 2005, including registration fees, see the SummerWrite 2005 General Information Page.

Week 7: August 8–12

¡Bienvenidos! Fun with Spanish

• Ages: 6–8
• SY5-M1E7
• Instructor: Julie Harris
• MORNINGS: August 8–12, 9 am–11:45 am
• $95 W&B members / $105 general public

NO PASSPORT REQUIRED for this week’s Spanish language and culture adventure. This is a beginner level, no-experience-needed class, with a focus on fun immersion. We will learn Spanish greetings, colors, numbers and more. Food, music, indigenous folktales, crafts, and games abound as we experience Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala and Peru. A party complete with a piñata rounds out the week. Children also receive a mini dictionary.

Rhyming, Rhythm & Movement

• Ages: 6–8
• SY5-D1F7
• Instructor: Reenah Golden
• AFTERNOONS: August 8–12, 12:15–3 pm
• $95 W&B members / $105 general public

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 we’ll also experiment! Activities 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. We’ll take home tapes of our rhymes at the end of the week.

The Drama Dream Team

• Ages: 8–12
• SY5-D2Q8
• Instructor: Marna Rossi
• ALL DAY: August 8–12, 9 am–4 pm
• $195 W&B members / $215 general public

Become a member of a team of authors/actors who will create stories about the legendary deeds of heroines and heroes. Listen to ancient Native American stories and visit the Rochester Museum and Science Center Exhibit. Search your own reading, dreams, and imaginations to find a legend or myth. Write the story. Your story can be in the form of a play or of epic-style poetry. You can add movement and music. Make masks for the characters in the story. Add gesture as you tell your story or act it out with a team. Be a legend in your own time!

Writers & Cooks: Menus for Every Meal

• Ages: 8–12
• SY5-M2E7
• Instructor: Paul Jonasse
• MORNINGS: August 8–12, 9 am–Noon
• $159 W&B members / $175 general public
• Note: Held at the Cornell Cooperative Extension, 249 Highland Avenue.

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 chef who is also a fifth grade teacher, this workshop will take place in a local state-of–the-art kitchen. Participants will work from a full day’s menu, breakfast through evening snack; cooking, eating and discussing dishes for one meal for each day. They will annotate and illustrate the recipes (including their own creative variations), and do a bit of taste-bud tickling creative writing.

Writers & Cooks: Around the World

• Ages 9–13
• SY5-M3E8
• Instructor: Paul Jonasse
• AFTERNOONS: August 8–12, 1–4pm
• $149 W&B members / $165 general public
• Note: Held at the Cornell Cooperative Extension, 249 Highland Avenue.

Travel the world and write your own cookbook in this busy, creative (and tasty) workshop for budding young cooks and writers. Taught by a chef who is also a fifth grade teacher, this workshop will take place in a local state-of-the-art kitchen. Participants will work their way through five countries; cooking, eating and discussing. They will annotate and illustrate the recipes (including their own creative variations), and do a bit of taste-bud tickling creative writing. Note: All new international recipes this year.

Pump up Your Vocabulary (College Prep)

• Ages: High School, College
• SY5-F6V8
• Instructor: Elizabeth Conway
• MORNINGS: August 8–12, 9 am–Noon
• $99 W&B members / $110 general public

You need a broad and deep knowledge of the vast English lexicon to be ready for advanced reading, writing and coursework, as well as to prepare for tests such as the SAT and GRE. So how do you make sure that words like “lexicon” are in your vocabulary, and you can not only understand them but use them with precision? This course will give you time-tested techniques for deciding which words are important to learn, decoding words based on their roots, deciphering meanings in context, grouping words for memorization, and organizing your own personal word list for ongoing, easy access!

Advanced Fiction

• Ages: High School
• SY5-F6L8
• Instructor: Elizabeth Conway
• AFTERNOONS: August 8–12, 1 pm–4 pm
• $99 W&B members / $110 general public

Do you feel that your writing is ready for the “real world”? This workshop will help you, an aspiring writer, polish your work, improve your style, and analyze your technique. Learn revision lessons that the pros know, such as how to avoid cliché, what and when to cut, “show don’t tell,” and how to take advantage of the English language’s vast stock of words. We will work together to become better writers, revisers and editors.

Women’s Words from the Wilds

• Ages: 14 & up
• SY5-M6C8
• Instructor: Angela Cannon
• ALL DAY: August 8–12, 9 am–4 pm
• $190 W&B members/ $210 general public
• Note: Held at the Gell Center of the Finger Lakes in South Bend.

A weeklong writing and inspirational workshop for young women who love the outdoors and its verbal interpretations, or are seeking to rediscover their relationship with nature. Explore women writers who have shared their lives, careers, souls and love of nature: environmental biologists Margaret Murie, Rachel Carson and Barbara Kingsolver, naturalist writers Anne LaBastille and Annie Dillard, and poet Mary Oliver. Spend time exploring the natural world in and around the Gell Center through outdoor activities and hikes while you record your thoughts in essay, poetry, and story. There will be time for journaling and reflective writing as well as guided practice and sharing groups. Bring your pen and your hiking boots! On Thursday night, we will sleep over at the lodge. If carpooling is desired, please contact (585) 473-2590x109.

ArtWalk Explorer

• Ages: 9–13
• Note: Two Weeks, See Week 6: Two-Week Intensives.

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