Name: Writing Outside the Lines: Unleashing Creativity with Untapped Techniques
Start: 2025-02-20T14:30:00-0700
End: 2025-02-20T15:30:00-0700

Thursday February 20, 2025 2:30pm - 3:30pm MST

S154

Transform your classroom into a haven for innovative writing with this hands-on workshop. Using an expanded toolkit of literary devices, your students will learn to think outside the box and produce writing that you and others will truly want to read. Dive into the world of defamiliarization, syllepsis, left turns, and twisted idioms, packed with playful activities and prompts. See for yourself how these techniques produce writing that is bright, funny, striking, and a delight to share with the whole room!

Speakers

Miranda Krogstad

Presenter / Content creator, YYSpeak

Krogstad is a spoken word poet and educator whose words have empowered students in dozens of cities across Western Canada and beyond. Outside of the classroom, she is a 2-time Canada Council for the Arts grant recipient, a Calgary Arts Development grant recipient, a 2016 national... Read More →

Thursday February 20, 2025 2:30pm - 3:30pm MST
S154 299 College Dr SE, Medicine Hat, AB

Literacy

Audience Div 3, Div 4

SEATCA 2025 - Southeastern Alberta Teachers' Convention

Miranda Krogstad

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