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July 12-19: Students entering grades K-3. Through games, singing, and exercises, we will explore 5 components of basic songwriting: rhythm, rhyme, song structure, lyrics, and melody. A strong emphasis is placed on collaboration. Using the tools they have learned, students will join together to write an original song from start to finish.

For more information and to register, please download the 2010 SFK Brochure (.pdf).

July 12-16: Students entering grades 3-5. This workshop will teach core concepts of fiction writing including in-depth sessions on Character, Plot, Imaginative Writing, and the all-important skill of Revision. During the workshop, students will study character development, plot structure, and setting in popular children's literature and will write and illustrate their own individual stories.

For more information and to register, please download the 2010 SFK Brochure (.pdf).

July 19-23: Students entering grades K-3. In Vol. 2, we will experiment with various songwriting forms and structures: the blues, the "hooky" pop chorus, the bridge. Students will work in small groups and individually to write a number of "song sketches" throughout the week. This workshop may be taken as a stand-alone, but students who have taken Vol. 1 will benefit from having a knowledge of the vocabulary and traditional song structure we will use as a base.

For more information and to register, please download the 2010 SFK Brochure (.pdf).

July 19-23: Students entering grades 3-5. This workshop teaches the basics of writing poetry in both form and free verse. Students will study and analyze poems by poets from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Robert Frost to Gwendolyn Brooks and Robert Hayden. They will use class time to write and illustrate their own short book of poems.

For more information and to register, please download the 2010 SFK Brochure (.pdf).