Online Camps International

07/24/2020

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STARTS MONDAY!

Writing the Heartbeat – Personal Narratives for Teens of Color
An online writing workshop camp for grades 9-12
July 27 – July 31

Connie Pertuz-Meza an amazing teacher, writer and storyteller, is the instructor. Here’s Connie description of the camp:

“Are you a teenager of color ages 14 thru 18 who wants your voice out in the world? Do you have a story to tell, one buried in your heart, ready to be uncovered, but yearn for the safety and love of community in which to tell it? This one-week camp is for teen writers of color who want their voices and stories to be heard. We will write our personal narratives in a way that ensures your heartbeat will be felt on the page, through personal essay, flash creative nonfiction, short memoir, and poetry. Or we can write autobiographical fiction, and borrow from our lives to create characters, and build setting and plot lines. We will study craft to inspire, inform, and investigate the art of writing. Students will have the chance to sign up for a one-on- one videoconference with the instructor to get individualized writing attention.”

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https://www.onlinecampsinternational.com/camps/writing-the-heartbeat-personal-narratives-for-teens-of-color/

07/24/2020

Comic books can speak to everyone, from age 8 to 80! Check out our three comic camps for 8-, 9-, and 10-year-olds starting soon!

Civil rights movement superhero John Lewis, who died last week at age 80, thought comic books were important. That’s why the late congressman wrote a graphic novel memoir trilogy called “March” that tells the story of his life in the movement.

And that’s why Lewis went to Comic Con and cosplayed as his younger self -- complete with a trench coat and a backpack containing two books, an apple, and orange, a toothbrush and toothpaste -- so as to recreate what he’d worn and carried onto Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965.

At Comic Con, Lewis led a group of children, who knew him because they'd read “March,” on a march around the convention center, passing the power of activism on to a new generation.

This summer, Online Camps International has three comic camps taught by incredible teachers! They're a great introduction for third, fourth and fifth graders to a genre beloved by John Lewis!

My Life in A Comic Strip
July 27 – 31 STARTS MONDAY!
Instructor: Towanda Harris
Grades 3-5
Learn how to combine pictures, captions and dialogue to create a dramatic narrative about a moment in your life!

Write Your Own Comic
August 3 – 7
Instructor: Jessica Martin
Grades 3-5
Learn drawing techniques, create an original character, draft a story script, create a storyboard layout, color the images, add lettering and publish your comic!

I Can See That! A Graphic Novel Reading Club
August 3 – 7
Instructor: Kathy Collins
Grades 3 – 5
Learn pro-tips for reading and talking about fun and challenging graphic novels, and become stronger at reading anything!

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My Life in a Comic Strip Instructor: Towanda Harris Elementary School, Grades 3-5 July 27 – July 31 Close your eyes and think about a moment in your life. Do you see the characters, the plot, and the dialogue? Authors and illustrators work together to...

07/18/2020

Calling all 7th, 8th and 9th graders who would like to have a way to make sense of, well, all of this!

Join our online Dystopian Fiction Reading and Writing Workshop camp. It's perfect for these times!

Camp starts July 27th and meets three times a week for two weeks.

Check it out, and spread the word!

Here's the link: https://www.onlinecampsinternational.com/camps/dystopian-fiction-reading-and-writing-workshop-2/

07/18/2020

Anyone know a 6th, 7th or 8th grader who would like to join our online Write Your Own Comic Camp this coming week?

Here's what a parent wrote about her child's experience with the teacher, Jessica Martin, in the same camp last week:

"Thank you for all your beautiful teaching in comic camp! Our house is tiny, and I can hear all your laughter and appreciation! My son is hard to engage via Zoom, but he woke up this morning and said, ‘How many days do I get to have comic camp?’"

And this just in from another parent whose son is signing up to do a second week! "Thanks for a great camp this week -- he's super pumped to do it again and hopes to see his comic buddies!"

It's not too late to sign up!

Write Your Own Comic (For Beginners) Instructor: Jessica Martin Middle School, Grades 6-8 July 20 – July 24 Study the art of visual storytelling through the writing of your own comic strip. Grab your pencil, paper, eraser, or your favorite digital drawing app and let’s...

07/15/2020

Our Q***r Voices online high school writing workshop starts Monday, July 20!

Write your story through poetry, fiction or non-fiction with LGBTQ+ kids from all over the world!

Melissa Onstad, your teacher, is a q***r parent, writer and Gender and Sexuality Alliance advisor dedicated to helping young people define and pursue their own goals.

Craft your q***r voice!

ONLINE CAMPS INTERNATIONAL FIRST WEEK JULY 13 – JULY 17 Write What You Love: Creating Independent Writing Projects Instructor: Matt Glover Elementary School, Grades 3-5 July 13 – July 17 Learn More Write Your Own Comic (for beginners) Instructor: Jessica Martin Elementary School, Grades 5-6...

07/11/2020

Young writers going into third, fourth and fifth grade will have a blast learning from Matt Glover next week in his online camp, Write What You Love.

Write What You Love with Matt Glover, for grades 3 - 5
This online camp meets in time zones that encompass the east coast of Latin America, Iceland, Europe, Africa, Russia, the Middle East and Asia. If you know any young writers in those parts, please pass this along! Among the campers they'll be writing with are kids who live in Bali, Germany, Dubai and Mumbai.

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Write What You Love:Creating Independent Writing Projects Instructor: Matt Glover Elementary School, Grades 3-5 July 13 – July 17 In this camp children will be excited about writing because they get to decide what they want to write (which genre they want to write in)...

07/11/2020

Calling all lovers of comic books and graphic novels who are 5th or 6th grade! Sign up today for Write Your Own Comic online camp with Jessica Martin!

This online camp meets in time zones that are kind of early but doable for the West Coast of the US and Latin America, the Mountain States the Midwest, but are perfect for the East Coast, the rest of Latin America, Iceland, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and India. Among the campers that'll be drawing and writing their hearts out are kids who live in Texas, Tanzania, Maryland, Colorado and Amsterdam.

Write Your Own Comic (for beginners) Instructor: Jessica Martin Elementary School, Grades 5-6 July 13 – July 17 Study the art of visual storytelling through the writing of your own comic strip. Grab your pencil, paper, eraser, or your favorite digital drawing app and let’s...

07/11/2020

Q***r Voices, an online writing camp with Melissa Onstad, for grades 6 - 8, starts on Monday!

Sign up today for this great virtual camp for LGBTQ middle schoolers who like to write!

This online writing workshop camp meets in time zones that are good across the US -- 10am in California, 11am in Denver, 12pm in Chicago and 1 pm in NYC. It's also good for all of Latin America. It meets in the evening hours in Iceland, Europe and East Africa. It meets well into the evening in West Africa, Russia, the Middle East and Asia, but hey, kids stay up late these days, right? Among the campers are kids who hail from Salt Lake City, Berlin, California and Brooklyn.

Q***r Voices: Open Genre Writing Workshop Instructor: Melissa Onstad Middle School, Grades 6-8 July 13 – July 17 Are you a young person who identifies as LGBTQ+? The world needs to hear from you! Come write your life in the way that makes the most...

07/11/2020

There's still time to sign up for next week's three great online writing camps!

Q***r Voices with Melissa Onstad, for grades 6 - 8
This online writing workshop camp meets in time zones that are good across the US -- 10am in California, 11am in Denver, 12pm in Chicago and 1 pm in NYC. It's also good for all of Latin America. It meets in the evening hours in Iceland, Europe and East Africa. It meets well into the evening in West Africa, Russia, the Middle East and Asia, but hey, kids stay up late these days, right? Among the campers are kids who hail from Salt Lake City, Berlin, California and Brooklyn.

Write Your Own Comic with Jessica Martin, for grades 5 - 6
This online camp meets in time zones that are kind of early but doable for the West Coast of the US and Latin America, the Mountain States the Midwest, but are perfect for the East Coast, the rest of Latin America, Iceland, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and India. Among the campers that'll be drawing and writing their hearts out are kids who live in Texas, Tanzania, Maryland, Colorado and Amsterdam.

Write What You Love with Matt Glover, for grades 3 - 5
This online camp meets in time zones that encompass the east coast of Latin America, Iceland, Europe, Africa, Russia, the Middle East and Asia. If you know any young writers in those parts, please pass this along! Among the campers they'll be writing with are kids who live in Bali, Germany, Dubai and Mumbai.

ONLINE CAMPS INTERNATIONAL Have fun & learn from the best! In our creative and inspiring online summer camps children around the world in first through twelfth grade become engaged readers and accomplished writers. Our incredible teachers are globally acclaimed for their ability to build uncommonly....

07/06/2020

Fifth and sixth graders looking for a place to put down their thoughts and feelings and ideas will love Online Camps International's "Notebook Keepers" virtual camp with Amy Ludwig VanDerwater! It starts next week on Zoom.
In this weeklong camp, which meets for an hour each day, here's what you'll do:

Many people keep notebooks: writers, inventors, artists, historians, scientists, and thinkers of all kinds. In this camp, we will investigate ways to write and draw in notebooks, peeking at others’ pages and discovering a variety of ways to find ideas. Some may choose to grow a project, and some may explore new topics daily.

Before the camp begins, participants should download these books on Kindle: A Writer’s Notebook by Ralph Fletcher and Spilling Ink by Anne Mazer and Ellen Potter.

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Notebook Keepers Instructor: Amy Ludwig VanDerwater Elementary School, Grades 5-6 July 13 – July 17 Many people keep notebooks: writers, inventors, artists, historians, scientists, and thinkers of all kinds. In this camp, we will investigate ways to write and draw in notebooks, peeking at others.....

07/06/2020

Middle Schoolers who are fans of the writer Gary Soto will love Online Camps International's combined reading and writing camp with Vicki Vinton, "Become a Better Writer by Doing an Author Study!" It starts next week on Zoom!

In weeklong camp, which meets each day for 75 minutes, here's what you'll do:

Here’s two writers’ secrets you may not know: Writers repeat themselves, telling the same stories again and again, each time in a new disguise, and they’re also thieves who borrow, steal and imitate other writers.

This 5-day combined reading and writing course, will encourage campers to both repeat themselves and steal by studying a single author in depth to see how they return to the most important stories and themes in their lives and how they use craft to bring those stories alive.

Campers will:
Read and discuss a handful of one author’s stories and poems with their fellow campers
Consider what’s similar across the stories and poems
Think about the stories and themes that have shaped their own lives
Notice, name and steal some of the craft of the author under study
Draft a story and/or poem about one of the significant stories or themes in their life
Share and celebrate a part of their story or poem during the last day of camp
Before this camp begins, campers should get Gary Soto’s Facts of Life and Living Up the Street. Both books can be downloaded on Amazon Kindle.

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Become a Better Writer by Doing an Author Study! Instructor: Vicki Vinton Middle School, Grades 6-8 July 13 – July 17 Here’s two writers’ secrets you may not know: Writers repeat themselves, telling the same stories again and again, each time in a new disguise,...