Course Description

Creative Writing:  Students will spend five days learning about the craft of creative writing and bringing a single project from idea all the way to publication. They will learn the elements of a good work of fiction or history--character, mood, setting, and conflict. Students will study the elements of good prose--irony, description, tone, and word-choice, etc.

Essay Writing: The course is designed to help students improve an indispensable writing skill: whether they are writing up a lab report, an essay, the personal-statement-portion of a school application, or, simply a private journal entry. The students will learn how to get through the planning-stages of any project with minimal procrastination and self-doubt and how to shape our sentences and paragraphs for both beauty and strength.

Both courses will teach students how to edit; in particular, how to respectfully and effectively edit the works of their peers and receive edits from  their peers.

Age Group: Grade 4-5, 6-8,  9 & Above
Schedule: Monday - Friday 9:30 AM -3:30 PM

Dates: June 17 -21 (Essay Writing), June 24 - 28 (Creative Writing),  
August 5 - 9 (Essay Writing)  August 12 - 16 (Creative Writing)

Weekly Tuition: $850. $800 per week if enrolled for multiple weeks

Refund: Cancellations made one month before the start date of the program will receive a FULL refund minus $50 processing fee. Cancellations made two weeks before the start date of the program will receive 50% refund minus $50 processing fee. No refund after the start of the program. No makeups.

Questions? Please email info@leapuplearning.com or call 646-8700560