
Think of a time you experimented with or tried something new and it didn’t turn out like you thought it would. Write about that experience.
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Think of a time you experimented with or tried something new and it didn’t turn out like you thought it would. Write about that experience.
New to freewriting? Check out our online guide.
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There’s a reason we go to conferences, retreats, and intensives. The power of immersion is real! We learn better and faster when we are saturated in what we’re trying to learn.
Brave Writer creates that immersive experience in our online classes, too. Our classes are short, so you can devote more time to them. And the entire class is in writing.
Did you catch that? It may sound simple, but it’s integral to our immersive approach—writing is the vehicle for learning to write.
The format of our classes—a writer’s workshop environment where students can read all writing submitted, not just their own—supports what they learn in class. Students:
We want not only effective writers of assignments, but also effective communicators in writing itself. When students engage with the written word in every aspect of the class, their experience is far richer and deeper than traditional tutorial or in-person classroom formats!
Brave Writer offers a unique 6-week coaching program just for YOU, the parent. While your kids get opportunities to write and receive comments from our instructors, you’ll learn how to coach your kids to write with confidence!
Countless parents have discovered through The Writer’s Jungle Online that writing doesn’t have to be a battleground but can be a journey into the unique, creative, quirky mind life of their children. Let’s get in there and see what they have to say, and then help them to say it—in writing!
You can learn more about our online classes here.
We also invite you to log in to a sample class. Click around, play with our text editor, and read real instructor responses to writing posted in class.
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A road schooler at heart? Wish you could learn another language? Meet someone from the other side of the world? Think that the curriculum you bought in September is the limit of what you can explore?
THINK AGAIN! This is how you make your world bigger than your backyard: BOOKS!
Books and perspectives outside their normal range of experience grow writers. Give your kids something to think about that’s outside the box! Reading is the easiest, safest and CHEAPEST way to see the world.
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Check out our online Boomerang Book Club (ages 13-18) selection for October:
The Red Umbrella by Christina Diaz Gonzalez.
This is the tale of 14-year-old Lucía Álvarez, who has been relocated with her younger brother from Cuba to the United States as part of Operation Pedro Pan—an operation that facilitated the flight of more than 14,000 Cuba children to the US to flee Fidel Castro’s revolution. Lucía misses the way it used to be before the revolution came marching into her small Cuban town and changed everything. As she adapts to her new life in the heartland of America, she wonders if she will ever see her parents, or her homeland, again.
Purchase the novel here.
A rich array of experience await! Join us and get a free copy of our language arts guide to go with the book.
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Got big readers at home, devouring library books one by one? We’ve got a way to make those books last a little longer! A book club!
Save yourself the hassle of hosting though! We’ve got it all laid out for you.
Log in to the Brave Writer classroom and find:
All you need to do is provide the snacks!
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Here’s what Brave Writers (ages 9-12) will be reading in October’s online Arrow Book Club:
Merci Suárez Changes Gears by Meg Medina
This novel is the 2019 Newbery winner. It’s a heartwarming (and sometimes heart wrenching) coming-of-age story with a delightfully relatable protagonist—Merci! As she navigates 6th grade, Merci struggles with the developmental and emotional changes that come with growing up. Along with her typical tween-concerns, she must also come to understand and accept the changes brought to her tight-knit family when the effects of Alzheimer’s disease alter her beloved grandfather. This is a story about growing up, growing old, and growing as a family.
Purchase the novel here.
Brave Writer offers a virtual living room space—where students gather to freely discuss the novels they read with you at home. Join us!
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Are all insects treated the same in your house? For instance, do you save ladybugs but swat flies? Why or why not.
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