showing entries tagged "creative writing"
by: Michael Hanlon
UW-Whitewater Creative Writing Festival
It's the end of November, which means that it's time once again to attend the Whitewater Creative Writing Festival. Étude has been attending the Festival for over a decade, but this was the first trip for most of our attending students this year. Fourteen 9th, 10th, and 11th graders hopped on the bus and spent the day on the UW-Whitewater campus, interacting with peers from across the Midwest, workshopping their writing, and learning from some of the finest writers in Wisconsin.
One new feature this year allowed high schoolers to attend a college-level course in full. "It was surprisingly similar to how we teach at Étude," said freshman Alex Moon. "It was a lot about observing and talking about what we did or didn't like." The Étudians who submitted work were excited to receive feedback on their work, and one student, junior Camille Staats, also received a first-place award in the "Essay" category for her piece, "Guilt and the Human Experience." Everyone also enjoyed the keynote speaker, Ike Holten, and one student told us "The things he said about being a writer from a minority community are really important and really accurate."
Substitute Teaching in Science Class
Subbing in a science class can be intimidating for a non-science teacher, but when the students have clear directions and are excited about their work, it’s easy! Today the Chemistry students worked in small groups to write short fictionalized stories about scientists who contributed to the atomic theory.
by: Tad Phippen Wente, Creative Writing Teacher
Swamplandia! community read reaches students
Joining the recent Lakeland College Community Book Read featuring Karen Russell’s Swamplandia! gave me a chance to dabble with text and blackout poetry, which I brought back for students to try. Gina Covelli, Community Relations Manager, and Jodie Liedke, Assistant Professor of Composition, shared copies of pages from the novel. We read through, then circled words that stood out. Blacking out all the rest with heavy strokes of Sharpie produced a poem that maybe reinterpreted the pages or maybe spoke to the reader about some other observation. It reminded me of finding the carving within a great block of old wood: you carve away until the subject is revealed. One of my students, Jackson, remarked that using pages of fiction was a much more rewarding experience for blackout poetry, the word choices so much more beautiful than those of nonfiction articles.
by: Sarah Williams, Étude Studios Writing Intern
Whitewater Creative Writing Festival 2015: Students Present Work, Offer Feedback
IDEAS Academy students traveled to the UW-Whitewater High School Creative Writing Festival on November 18. Twenty-five students and two teachers attended the event, with 17 students submitting work to be critiqued by college professors, professional writers and peers, and the others coming along as support for friends and to hear other presenters. In addition to entering creative writing, two students created mixed media pieces to be shown at the festival.
by: Tad Phippen Wente
School of Writers: “19 Writers” speak out about what they do
In her foreword to Caroline Sharp’s The Writer’s Workbook: Daily Exercises for the Writing Life, Elizabeth Gilbert recounts the following conversation with a friend:
by: K. Johnson
100 Thousand Poets for Change
IDEAS and Mosaic artists were featured alongside other literary professionals in a local 100 Thousand Poets for Change event at Mead Library on September 28.
by: Leah Morgan
Exhibitions of Learning January 2013
In place of formal written finals, IDEAS Academy students present their semester long project twice a year in a public venue.
by: Laquisha Holden, Etude Studios Publications Intern
100 Thousand Poets For Change
When 100 Thousand Poets for Change presented at the Mead Public Library on Saturday, Sept. 29, the IDEAS Academy students were already prepared.
by: Michaela Gandy, Publications Intern, IDEAS Academy
Students attend Whitewater writing festival
Seven IDEAS Academy students attended the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater High School Creative Writing Festival Wednesday, November 16.
by: Dollie Cromwell
Tad Phippen Wente, Creative Writing
Building something new is what makes us thrive! So creating a school has been continuously exciting and rewarding.
by: Tad Phippen Wente, Creative Writing teacher
TimeSlips Seminar
Today in the TimeSlips Seminar (this is a project we’re working on with JMKAC’s Connecting Communities) we enjoyed a visit from Tracy Cinealis, CSA, of Libby’s...
by: Tad Phippen Wente, Creative Writing teacher
Poetry & Lyrics Seminar
Poetry & Lyrics Seminar wrapped up its quarter today with a “Final Reading” in three categories: Poetry Out Loud (inspired by the National Endowment for the...
