Class Title: "Playing with our Senses: Looking at the Same World in New Ways" [mini-course] Instructor: Jennifer Culver Class Term: enroll in this class Class Description "Playing with our Senses: Seeing the Same World in New Ways" begins with an invitation to participants to delve deeper into sensory awareness with various prewriting/journaling activities that encourage them to find a meaningful aspect of their lives to explore more deeply in an observational writing. From there, we will bridge into the drafting of writing by "playing" with sensory language, starting with some sentence stems and moving into discussions of drafting options and models of observational essays. Finally, participants will share stories and discuss revision techniques, using specific strategies to improve their essay for their desired audience. Weekly reading material will be delivered as a PDF to the Yahoo group for the class. Students may upload their work to the Yahoo group or email it directly to me. We will communicate together in this Yahoo forum, but I will also offer conferences in chat or telephone format, as well as at least three group chat opportunities. Outline Unit One: Building Awareness of our Unique World Unit Two: Choosing the Essay and Drafting Unit Three: Revising with a Careful Eye Student Skills, Equipment required To be successful, the student needs only beginning proficiencies. The student will need to sign up for the Yahoo list and be able to download the pdf material each week as well as upload the writing when needed through email to the list. Work will need to be entered into a word processor (such as Word) to be able to upload the work. Each unit will take about two hours to complete Tuition/Fees for this course SCN members: $0. Non-SCN members: $. Instructor Bio Jennifer Culver teaches Honors English and Creative Writing for high school students in the North Texas area. She has presented techniques for writing memoir at regional conferences, but she also enjoys looking at popular culture through a medieval lens, which is the ongoing focus on her Ph. D. A mother of three, Jennifer leads a women's meditation group in the North Texas area and mentors teachers in the field of literacy and creating opportunities for writing that appeal and provide meaning in our Information Age.