Voiceopedia Writing Camp X SJPL
At Voiceopedia, we believe writing is an amazing way of expressing our opinions on current political issues. Our goal is to encourage students to voice their concerns and knowledge of politics through the art of writing and speaking. Writing and speaking allows for expression of their opinions/perspectives on important issues going on in our community as well as topics they may be curious about. To fulfill our goal, over the course of the winter break, Voiceopedia partnered up with the San Jose Public Library to conduct a 7 week course writing camp! This camp took lots of preparation as our members had to create over several hours worth of curriculum.
Our main objective was to help our students improve their writing skills through vocabulary, literary devices, story structure, and many more. Throughout the camp we taught them various concepts that they used to write a short story for the San Jose Library Winter Storytelling Competition.
We started to advertise through the library websites and social media devices such as whatsapp, messages, and instagram. This created lots of traction as during these pandemics, students were eager to learn more and persevered to get better at writing. We gathered more than 30 plus students throughout the whole course of the camp.
During our lessons, we would always start off with a fun icebreaker to spark creativity in breakout rooms and an agenda for our one hour together on zoom. It was a hit as many students were more comfortable with participating and engaging themselves with other students. We had many fun activities and lessons throughout our meetings built towards improving their literary skills like difficult vocabulary, ethos, pathos, logos, grammar activities, and many more.
At the end of the camp, many students gave us feedback! Although this was our first time doing a camp online through the library, we can't wait to do more!
For more details about our camp please visit this website:
https://sjpl.bibliocommons.com/events/5fc59d335e8c0f2400fc4681
Please check out the many more camps provided by the library at this link:
https://sjpl.bibliocommons.com/events
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