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Damn, It Feels Good to be a Homeschooler

8/3/2017

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!

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.

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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