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Art Meets Science: Literature
In this creative writing course, we’ll explore poetry, fiction, drama, and non-literary works that use science as inspiration. After reading scientific poems, science fiction short stories, and a play ...
Next start date: June 16, 2025

Grades 8-10

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Art Meets Science: Nonfiction
In this course, we’ll read works inspired by science and art and use them as models to write and revise personal essays that explore the genre of nonfiction. You’ll reflect on personal experiences ...
Next start date: June 16, 2025

Grades 6-8

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Building Blocks
Start building your communication superpowers by learning just how cool words and language can be! In this course you will study excerpts from classic stories like Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,  ...
Next start date: June 16, 2025

Grades 3-4

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Crafting Fiction
Learn to master the core elements of fiction writing, such as plot, theme, dialogue, and character development by reading and analyzing short works of fiction and writing your own. Assignments are ...
Next start date: June 16, 2025

Grades 8-12

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Crafting Poetry
An introduction to poetry and poetic concepts, this course covers musical aspects of poetry, the patterns and conventions of sound, and the effects they have on readers. Imagery in poems is also ...
Next start date: June 16, 2025

Grades 8-12

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Crafting the Essay - Workshop
Bring your experiences to life on the page in this personal essay course. Through 10 assignments, we will experiment with different essay forms to describe scenes, illustrate conflicts, narrate events ...
Next start date: June 16, 2025

Grades 7-10

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Creating Fantasy Worlds
What makes a fantasy world feel real in a reader’s mind? How do writers draw and keep readers’ attention while crafting these mythical places? In this course, we will apply geography, cartography, and ...
Next session begins: September 10, 2025

Grades 5-6

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Creative Nonfiction
In this course, we will read short works of nonfiction, analyze published authors' techniques, and practice specific writing skills in a supportive community of our peers. We will learn how to select ...
Next session begins: September 11, 2025

Grades 7-11

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CTY Reading Challenge
Calling all enthusiastic readers! Do you like talking about books almost as much as you like reading them? Join our 12-week reading challenge to meet other curious and motivated readers and talk about books. This course meets six times over 12 weeks and is guided by an instructor. Every two weeks, we’ll take up a new challenge: to select and read a book that satisfies the challenge category. In between meetings, we’ll engage in virtual discussions and prepare reviews on the book(s) we’ve read.
Next session begins: June 18, 2025

Grades 6-8

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Fantasy Worldbuilding
What draws audiences into the settings of their favorite fantasy worlds? What makes these otherwise mythical places feel like real locations in readers’ minds? In this course, we’ll use applications ...
Next session begins: June 16, 2025

Grades 5-6

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From Structure to Style
Develop your writing style and study advanced English mechanics in this rigorous grammar course. Guided by a college-level textbook and multicultural reading excerpts, you will deepen your ...
Next start date: June 16, 2025

Grades 7-10

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Global Mythologies: Greece and Rome
Ancient Romans adopted and adapted Greek stories, and, over centuries of expansion, carried them to peoples and cultures across Europe and around the Mediterranean. Greco-Roman mythology still ...
Next session begins: September 9, 2025

Grades 4-5

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Imagination Workshop
Imaginative writing is a powerful tool. As authors, our written pieces can make someone laugh, change their mind, or even help them better understand the world. How can you do this in just a page, a ...
Next session begins: June 16, 2025

Grades 5-6

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Literary Worldbuilding
Fictional worlds often stay with us even longer than the stories that are set within them. They can be havens or nightmares, futuristic glimpses of what our world could be, or looking-glass critiques ...
Next session begins: September 10, 2025

Grades 7-11

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Mystery Writers Wanted
For generations, great mysteries have captivated readers with compelling characters and suspenseful storytelling punctuated by intriguing, unconventional sleuths like Eve Titus’s Basil of Baker Street ...
Next session begins: September 10, 2025

Grades 3-4

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Storytelling Through Art, Film, and Media
Photography, video games, short films—these are all elements of visual storytelling that are increasingly popular ways to express an idea, theme, or story in today’s digital world. This hands-on ...
Next start date: June 16, 2025

Grades 7-9

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Storytelling Through Film
Film, photography, and video games are all popular modes of visual storytelling that are used to express an idea, theme, or story in today’s digital world. In this three-week mini course, we’ll ...
Next session begins: September 11, 2025

Grades 6-8

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The Process of Writing – Workshop
This course explores the craft of writing, including techniques like brainstorming, outlining, drafting, and revision that effective writers use across multiple genres. You will write a family ...
Next start date: June 16, 2025

Grades 5-6

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Through the Lens
When you look at a photograph, what do you see? You find photographs everywhere—in journalism, art, family albums, and social media. What stories do they tell? Explore the ways that photographs can ...
Next session begins: June 16, 2025

Grades 4-5

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Worldbuilding
Fictional worlds often stick with us even longer than the stories that are set within them. They can be havens or nightmares, futuristic glimpses of what our world could be, or looking-glass critiques ...
Next session begins: June 16, 2025

Grades 7-10

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Writing About Art and Visual Design
Do you have a flair for design, and an eye for what makes a scene or image visually effective? In this course, you will explore historically significant and modern works of visual design—including ...
Next start date: June 16, 2025

Grades 9-12

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Writing and Imagination
Imaginative writing is a powerful tool—one that allows us to create worlds, spark emotions, and inspire new ways of thinking. As writers, our words can make someone laugh, shift their perspective, or ...
Next session begins: September 11, 2025

Grades 5-6

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Writing for an Audience – Workshop
In this course, you will use the drafting and revision skills you learned in The Process of Writing to practice clearly communicating your ideas to an audience. You will reflect on your relationship ...
Next start date: June 16, 2025

Grades 6-7

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Young Adult Readers: A Study of Sherlock
Journey to Victorian England, where mysterious figures and deceptive disguises abound on and around Baker Street. You’ll join iconic detective Sherlock Holmes and his trusty assistant, Dr. Watson, as ...
Next start date: June 16, 2025

Grades 7-8

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Young Readers Series: Amazing Animals
How and why do people bond with animals? How do human-companion animal relationships differ by culture? In this course, we’ll read books that explore human relationships with domestic and domesticated ...
Next session begins: September 9, 2025

Grades 2-3

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Young Readers Series: Dragon Tales
For centuries, readers have been charmed and enchanted by stories about dragons. This course lets you join in the fun by reading novels set in mythical lands and secret mountain caves where fiery ...
Next start date: June 16, 2025

Grades 2-3

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Young Readers Series: Good Dogs
What can make a dog a most trusted friend? How do dogs build unbreakable bonds with their owners? What circumstances test these bonds? In this course, we will read four books exploring the unique ...
Next start date: June 16, 2025

Grades 2-3

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Young Readers Series: In Search Of
Embark on a profound journey through space, time, and the human spirit as you consider what it means to be “in search of” one’s place in the world. Reading a mixture of fiction and nonfiction, you ...
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Grades 4-6

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Young Readers Series: Magical Life Lessons
Take an adventure, experience the joys and pitfalls of fantastical new abilities, and encounter the transforming power of magical life lessons. In this course, you will read four novels about kids who ...
Next start date: June 16, 2025

Grades 4-6

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Young Readers Series: Mystery Stories
Become an investigator and search for clues within each story, then try to solve the puzzle! In this course, you and your classmates/fellow detectives will journey to 19th century London with Sherlock ...
Next start date: June 16, 2025

Grades 2-3

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