Challenges for Elementary School Students (CHESS)

Iowa City Session 1 - June 16-27, 2008

Writing Your World - 9 am-12 pm

If you love to read, write, observe, learn, and talk with others about your thoughts and discoveries, then this is the course…

for you. We will use stories and poetry, some already published and some created by participants in our class, as both windows and mirrors through which we can view ourselves and the world outside of ourselves. We’ll read published pieces and use them as models for our own writing, and we’ll explore different approaches and different forms.

Instructor

Ronda Marshall received her B.A. from Southwestern College in Kansas and her M.A. from the University of Iowa in English education. She has taught junior high language arts for 35 years at Northwest Junior High in Coralville where she also sponsors the Knowledge Master team in which academically talented students compete with other teams around the country. For the last two summers she has taught a course in writing for gifted elementary students in the Belin-Blank Center’s CHESS program. When she’s not teaching language arts, she enjoys playing violin in the Iowa City String Orchestra, reading, walking, traveling, and doing crossword puzzles.