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IvyKids Writing Workshop: College Essay #1

The Ivy Bookshop

The admissions essay is the most personal part of the college application process and crafting it can be grueling. It allows you to highlight an individuality that goes beyond test scores and GPA, to reveal what makes you exceptional and unique. Knowing how to capture this spirit on paper can be a challenge.

The Ivy Bookshop wants to help. Our four-workshop series will lead you through the process of creating a compelling admissions essay. Depending on where you are in the process, you can sign up for the whole series or any individual workshop. By mid-November--in time for most Early Action deadlines--you will have a persuasive essay that reflects who you are and what you have to offer. Not to mention that you will learn about yourself, hone your writing voice and have fun!

The first of the four workshops will begin with the question: Who are you? Using a variety of writing activities, the group will brainstorm ideas for their admissions essays before each narrows to a central concept and finds a seed idea to explore, nurture and develop. We will focus on strategies for generating material around one main idea.

Participants will work around a large farm table, facilitating brainstorming and peer reviews. Sarah will assign homework between workshops to support and augment the writing process. 

The four Workshops are:

  • Workshop 1: Finding a Seed Idea to Nurture: Who Are You?  Mon, Sept 10, 7 PM
  • Workshop 2:  Nurturing the Seed Idea: What makes a piece of writing powerful, meaningful and artistic?  Mon, Oct 1, 7 PM
  • Workshop 3:  Working with Structure and Finding Meaning: What makes you both unique and of service to the greater community? What does your essay say about who you are?  Mon, Oct 22, 7 PM
  • Workshop 4:   Polishing the Essay: Are you ready to submit?  Mon, Nov 12, 7 PM

The Ivy will offer a 10% discount off:

  • College Essay Essentials: A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing a Successful College Admissions Essay by Ethan Sawyer ($14.99 retail; $13.50 after discount)
  • 101 College Admissions Essays that Made a Difference by Dr. Nancy L. Nolan ($19.99 retail; $18 after discount)
  • On Writing: 10th Anniversary Edition: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King ($17 retail; $15.30 after discount)
  • The Writing Life by Annie Dillard ($14.99 retail; $13.49 after discount)

For instructor Sarah Shellow, writing is a conversation with the world. She has 20 years of experience teaching writing to elementary, middle, high school and college students, as well as to teaching fellows. She teaches new public school teachers about the art and science of teaching writing, and trains staff at the Baltimore-based Holistic Life Foundation--a nonprofit organization committed to nurturing mindfulness and literacy. Sarah has a master's degree in education from Bank Street College in New York City and a master of fine arts degree in Creative Writing from Goddard College in Plainfield, VT.

$140 for 4-workshop series; $40 per workshop. Light dinner provided. RSVP by August 31. For individual workshops, click here. For all four, click here. You can also call 410-377-2966 or email MarthaAtTheIvy@gmail.com. Advance payment is required. Limited to 20 participants per workshop, so sign up today!

 

 

 

 

 

Event Details

TIME & DATE
Monday, September 10, 2018 - 7:00pm

LOCATION

Bird In Hand
11 E. 33rd Street
Baltimore, MD 21218


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