Prairie Lands Writing Project Holds Workshops

On December 5, Prairie Lands Writing Project Co-Directors Josie Clark and Elisabeth Alkier facilitated the Scholastic Writing Workshop at Bode Middle School for writers in grades 7-9. This workshop focused on what it takes to write a piece for submission for the Missouri Writing Region of the Scholastic Writing Awards. Participants examined mentor texts from previous Scholastic Writing Award winners in order to try new writing techniques in their own pieces. They learned how to sign up on the Scholastic Workshop and shared some of their writing in a mini open mic. The workshop brought together 17 young writers and 4 teachers from 6 different St. Joseph schools.  

 

Prairie Lands Writing Project's latest issues of their annual newsletter features stories about twelve new Teacher Consultants from the 2018 Summer Institute, a book club for ENG 100 instructors hosted by Dawn Terrick (MWSU), the Summer Elementary and Middle School Writing Projects at Bode Middle School led by Elisabeth Alkier and Josie Clark (SJSD), writing marathon sessions presented at regional conferences by  Amy Miller, Brooksie Kluge, and Susan Martens (MWSU), workshops at the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education led by Dana Barnes (Excelsior Springs), the annual writing retreat at Conception Abbey facilitated by Susan Martens (MWSU), recent MAS in Assessment of Writing graduate Trudy Ferrier (Mark Twain Elementary, SJSD), and Teacher Consultant Spotlights on Tonya O'Boyle (Cameron High School) and Jerri Fischer (Lindbergh Elementary, SJSD).