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Damn, It Feels Good to be a Homeschooler

8/3/2017

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Today I’m just full of happiness and energy. We have SUCH an epic hackschool year planned for the kids in our group!

Hackschool? Yes! It’s when you piece together a bunch of things that work for your child/family/life to participate in exceptional educational and extracurricular opportunities. And in our group we not only participate in them, we CREATE them!

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You can read our super long newsletter detailing them all - it was just sent out to our homeschool friends, but here’s a summary of what’s in store for our group activities:

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Finding Your Voice with Fractured Fairy Tales

8/1/2017

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by Mary C. Long

This is part of a series of classes I teach creative writers (kids ages 10-18) at my home each week.

​The activities can be adapted to meet them wherever they are on the writing spectrum. I'll be creating a separate piece with specific tips to help with those accommodations! I'm sharing the actual activity I write up for the kids and give them to read/refer to when they arrive. We go through it together as well.

​Fractured Fairy Tales Lesson

The hardest thing for most people when it comes to writing is finding a starting point. We’ll work on THAT another day, but today, with lots of new folks in the class, I wanted to work on something fun.
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So today, I’m giving you a starting point and you’re going to focus on making an existing story your own, creating a fractured fairy tale. What’s a fractured fairy tale? It’s taking a fairy tale and changing it up. Here are some ways:

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