Animals as Story Starters
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Languages
English
Discipline
Literary Arts
Availability
In-Person
Number of participants
30
Age
Junior Kindergarten, Senior Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
About this program
Stories ideas come from our real-world experiences with people, places, and things. One great source of inspiration is animals in their natural environments. In this workshop, we’ll use animal behaviours, habitats, and interactions to generate story characters, settings, and conflicts. The workshop will begin with an overview of Jen’s early artistic development and the creative process, and end with a Q&A period.
Curriculum Links
Generate, gather, and organize ideas to write for an intended purpose and audience; draft and revise their writing, using a variety of literary forms and stylistic elements appropriate for the purpose and audience; demonstrate an understanding that animals have distinct characteristics; demonstrate an understanding of habitats and communities and of interrelationships among the organisms that live in them; describe adaptations, including physical and/or behavioural characteristics, that allow various animals to survive in their natural environment.
Artist
Pricing
In person
One-hour session: $275 + HST
Two 1-hour sessions: $400 + HST
Three 1-hour sessions: $525 + HST
Four 1-hour sessions: $650 + HST
*Kindergarten sessions are 40 minutes long.
Published fees are for schools; fees for other settings are subject to change