Class Schedule
Friday, November 13th
10:00-11:30 am PST
*A 10 minute break will be built into the workshop at about halfway through
Note: Classes are listed in PST, click below to convert time to your time zone.
Course Overview
For many students, getting ideas onto paper feels like a prescribed chore—especially when sharing thoughts verbally comes so naturally. In this immersive 90-minute workshop, we flip the script on traditional writing by treating narrative structure as a creative playground rather than a set of rigid rules.
By analyzing how master storytellers leverage wit, irony, and rapid structural shifts to captivate readers, students will learn to break through blank-page paralysis. Through guided experimentation and high-momentum drafting, participants will explore how subtle shifts in perspective can transform simple ideas into dynamic, surprising stories.
Whether your child is a hesitant writer or a passionate storyteller, they will walk away with a fresh narrative tool, a completed piece of original writing, and a newfound appreciation for the playfulness of language.
Student Outcomes:
- Explore the etymology of unusual words, as well as looking at authors who have created their own words in their writing
- Examine the structure of a short story and apply the structure a unique writing piece
- Exercise a growth mindset rooted in our beliefs about our own writing abilities and how process can support our varied learning styles
Student Experience
Creative Writer
Literary Analyst
Researcher
Inventor
Your Teacher: Katie Kelly
Katie Kelly has worked as a teacher and educational consultant for over 15 years in independent and public schools, including 7 years at the Nueva School in Hillsborough, CA. She received her Master’s in Elementary Education at USC Rossier School of Education with a Certification in Gifted Education . She has continued to be passionate about politics surrounding gifted education and the challenges of meeting the needs of gifted learners, and is currently the Director of Learning at Cresconova.