This document provides an overview and schedule for a week-long storytelling camp for youth. The camp will meet daily from 12:30-4:30pm and focus on different styles of writing and storytelling each day, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and graphic novels. A variety of writing prompts and activities are outlined for each day. Space is limited and participants must register for the full week.

1. Storytellers - Downtown
June 17 - 21, 12:30 to 4:30
Description
Storytelling and writing help us to convey our thoughts, feelings, and experiences. This camp will look at
different forms of writing and storytelling. Each day will focus on a different style including fiction,
nonfiction, poetry, and graphic novels. Clever writing prompts and games will get you inspired and ready
to write. All experience levels are welcome.
Storytellers is a week-long camp that meets 12:30-4:30 pm daily. By registering for this event, you are
enrolled in all five days of camp.
Please register for only one camp. Space is limited and demand is high.
Things to finish
Elements of Fiction
Writing Process
Character Development
Making Research Readable
Poetry Basics
Editing and Revision
Day 1: Fiction (4 hours)(Done)
Telepictionary - 20 minutes
Writing Prompt 1 - Story Cubes - 15 minutes
Elements of Fiction - 30 minutes
- Characters
- Setting
- Both time and location, culture,
- Plot
- Conflict
- Resolution
- Theme
- Outlines
Free Read - 30 minutes
Optional Share/Feedback - 15 minutes
Round Robin Story Telling - 10 minutes
Break - 10 minutes 1.5 hours including break
Writing Prompt 2 - Story Prompt - 15 minutes
Discussion of writing process - 30 minutes
Free Write - 30 minutes

2. Break - 15 minutes 1.5 hours with break, 3 total
Discussion on character development - 30 minutes
Free Write - 30 minutes
End of Day 1
Day 2: Nonfiction (4 hours)(Done)
Favorite memory story - 10 minutes
What is Nonfiction discussion - 20 minutes
Types of Nonfiction
https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/aboutwriting/chapter/types-of-writing-styles/
Look at Ancestry
Writing Prompt 1 - Write the Story of Someone - 40 minutes
Break - 10 minutes, 1.5 hours with break
Pick a topic - 10 minutes
Expository - How to, News
Descriptive - Descriptions of something (nature), diary entries
Persuasive - Ads, Cover Letter, Letters
Narrative - History of someone (use Ancestry to look at a person)
Research - 20 minutes
Plagiarism
Making the Research Readable - 15
Free Write - 30 minutes
Break - 15 minutes, 1.5 hours, 3 total
Writing Prompt 2 - Advertisement - 30 minutes
Free Write - 30 minutes
End Day 2
Day 3: Poetry (4 hours)(Done)
Writing Prompt 1 - 10 minutes
Write a haiku
Poetry Basics - 20 minutes
- Rhyme/Rhyme Scheme

3. - Stanza
- Rhythm/Meter
- Imagery/Symbolism
-
Free Write - 30 minutes
Group Work - What is blue? - 20 minutes
- Students can vote on the words used
- Using sticky notes, write what different things mean to you.
Break - 10 minutes, 1.5 including break
Free Read - 15 minutes
An Examination of Song Lyrics - 15 minutes
Free Write - 15 minutes
Feedback/Share - 15 minutes
Bibliotherapy - 15 minutes
http://www.ala.org/tools/atoz/bibliotherapy
Break - 15 minutes, 1.5 including breaks, 3 total
Writing Prompt 3 - Book Page/Blackout Poetry - 15 minutes
Free Write - 30 minutes
Share/Feedback - 15 minutes
End Day 3
Day 4: Picture Book/Graphic Novels (4 hours)(Done)
Introduction for Graphics Day - 10 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9Q3i5w6-Ug
How graphics help move a story along
Free Read - 20 minutes
Break into groups - 10 minutes
Famous Graphic Novels and Why They’re Important - 10 minutes
Comic Panels - 30
Break/Planning time - 15 minutes, 1.5 hours including break
Writing Prompts - Dixit - 20 minutes
What makes a good picture book?/Where to start? - 10 minutes
Illustration - 30 minutes

4. Free Write - 30 minutes
Break - 15 minutes, 3.15 hours total
Free Write/​Free Draw​ - 30 minutes
Present - 20 minutes
End Day 4
Day 5: Free Write (4 hours)
Writing Prompt - Group story - either found or contributed by the group - 15 minutes
Introspective Moment - Who are you as an author? Who do you want to be? What do you like to
write? - 15 minutes
Free Writing - 30 minutes
Break - 15 minutes
A Discussion of Editing and Drafts - 30 minutes
Free Read - 20 minutes
Free Write
Sign Up for Summer Dare and Library Cards
Break - 15 minutes
Discussion of What to Do and What Not to Do
Mary knew the ​goddess test​ would be a ​game of lives​. She was gambling with all of them,
everyone she held dear. ​Love is love​ though and she wouldn’t abandon ​Lulu​, not when she was
trapped in ​a world below​. She was so close to ​the breaking point​. But Mary would face the ​jury
of her peers​, the other ​Smoke Thieves​. At the end, she would either ​walk through the woods​ a
goddess or be forced into being their ​Cursed Queen​.
Cursed queen