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Empowering Children through Writing

Finding their personal voice and connection to writing

  • Join any week (pro-rated based on enrollment start date); Contact us at [email protected]

  • Students will learn about various writing styles including persuasive, narrative, descriptive, expository, journalistic, media arts and oral communication

  • Students will explore real world issues as part of their writing journey; Writing pieces will connect to driving change, problem solving in the real world, using STEM for good, identity and equity

  • Students will learn to use their voice and words to connect to the reader

  • Students will explore sentence structure, descriptive word usage, and writing dialogue

  • Students will edit their work including spelling, grammar, word choice, organization, sentence structure, citations, and references

  • Students will share their work with peers and the instructor to receive constructive feedback

  • Students will learn the art of summarizing a non-fiction article and taking good notes

Writing Topics

  • Persuasive Writing

    Using persuasive writing and data visualization on the topic of community gardens; organizing and making the case to persuade the reader

  • Narrative Writing

    Narrative story writing from the perspective of an endangered animal; using voice, perspectives, numbers and words to connect to the reader

  • Descriptive Writing; Creative Writing Strategies

    Descriptive writing about the new super Earth discovery; learning creative writing and visualization strategies

  • Expository Writing

    Conducting research and writing an article on AI for Good Health; learning to write with a technical perspective, paragraph writing

  • Perspectives

    Writing a short story on a topic of interest from a child’s perspective (Inside Out); exploring sentence structure, descriptive word usage, writing dialogue

  • Journalistic Writing

    Reporting on youth transforming our world; learning how to be clear and concise as well as factually accurate

  • Editing My Work

    Choosing a written piece to edit including word choice, organization, sentence structure, writing strategies

  • Media Based Texts and Oral Communication

    Creating a photo series to celebrate the diversity of people; using media to relay a powerful message

  • Building our Presentation Skills

    Creating a Ted Talk on how our schools should be re-designed?; Writing and practicing our script, effectively using words and body language

Course curriculum

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Helping your child find their personal voice and connection to writing; Empowering children to see writing as the path toward change

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Sample Work Completed by Students




Instructor(s)

Dr. Minna Allarakhia

Dr. Minna Allarakhia is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brown University. She is the founder of BioEndeavor and the Purposeful Learning school - seeking to inspire students to find their purpose and passion through STEAM for GOOD. For 2 years now, Dr. Minna Allarakhia has been designing a STEAM curriculum that connects to the real world, where STEAM is used by students to find solutions to our community level and global challenges. Students as young as 8 years old have found their voice and developed their critical and creative thinking skills through the BioEndeavor programs. The STEAM Accelerator is an initiative to empower middle and early high school students by sharing with and connecting students to exciting courses, programs, schools, and STEAM careers. Dr. Allarakhia fundamentally believes that students must be engaged as early as grade 6 on planning their high school courses, designing a purposeful, meaningful and cohesive extracurricular portfolio, and learning how to design their post secondary educational pathways. It is more than about "getting into university/college" for Dr. Minna Allarakhia. It is about enabling personal clarity for her students on what success, fulfillment and balance means today, in high school, in undergraduate, graduate school and in life itself. She brings vast experience across the sciences, engineering disciplines, and in the management of technological innovation as Faculty and as an entrepreneur. Dr. Minna Allarakhia has studied at a number of institutions in the U.S. and Canada. Her kind demeanor and deep commitment to all students has been appreciated by the 100s of students each she has taught.