Our Writers in Residence program sends various professional writers into local classrooms. Part of the success of this program is that each writer builds their own curriculum based on their experience and classroom needs. This means that each school gets a unique program and each student that participates gets to experience something new surrounding creative writing. Many schools will participate in a Poetry on the Go field trip to the Jundt Art Museum where students explore visual art and then translate their understanding into literary art, but the fifth and sixth graders of Wendy Williamson, Niki Gadau, Tama Jordan, and Char Ferrante classes at Franklin Elementary also participated in a cultural enrichment this year thanks to writer Susan Virnig. Students learned a lot more about Japan as Susan taught them what she knows about the culture, language, and art from living in Japan.
Bowing Japanese style
Writing Japanese characters
Mastering chopsticks
The elementary students were exposed to traditional Japanese language, dress, food, games, and much more. This was the springboard event for writing Japanese poetry infused with the learned about a new culture. The results were fabulous! And there was many a poem about eating dried squid. (You've got to try it; it's quite delicious!)
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