Wondering what the Project Write experience is like? The sample below will give you an idea of the sites and activities that students engage with, whether the program is on-site, virtual, or hybrid.
Week One
Tuesday - Power of Community
Guiding question: How can the power of your voice create community?
- Visit the Liberty Bell Center
- Mini-lesson on pantoum poems
- Writing time
- Writing celebration
Wednesday - Race, Gender, Power
Guiding question: How can you raise up the voices of those in the shadows?
Thursday - Power of Place
Guiding question: How does the power of place influence what stories get told?
- Visit Dolley Todd House
- Mini-lesson on creating mood through the use of setting
- Writing time
- Writing celebration
Friday - Poe(try) and More!
Guiding question: How does language influence our emotions?
- Visit the Edgar Allan Poe house
- Two-sentence scary stories
- Writing tips inspired by Poe's works
- Writing time
- Writing celebration
Week Two
Tuesday - Behind the Walls
Guiding question: How do language and images influence our perspective?
- Visit Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site
- Mini-lesson on backstory/character development
- Write a backstory for a prisoner
- Writing celebration
Wednesday - Finding Voices
Guiding question: How can we seek out and find the stories that are missing from our dominant historical narrative?
- Explore the Portrait Gallery in the Second Bank of the U.S.
- Mini-lesson on hooks and dialogue
- Writing time
- Writing celebration
Thursday - Fun and Games
Guiding question: What are you seeking?
- Scavenger hunt
- Graduation practice
- Writing celebration
Friday - Graduation
Guiding question: Why do individuals from the past and today want their voices heard?
- Culminating pantoum
- Graduation
