FROG HOLLOW SCHOOL: WHERE YOUNG WRITERS THRIVE
Now in its 16th year, Frog Hollow offers full-day immersive Core Classes for homeschoolers in West Seattle and Carnation as well as online after school Young Writers’ Workshops for middle/high schoolers.
FOSTERING THE NEXT GENERATION’S VOICES
Our classes respect young writers as artists, humans, and children, giving them the skills to be articulate and powerful voices, making a space for them to be kids, and sparking their love of writing.
SPARKING EAGER AND RELUCTANT WRITERS
Frog Hollow’s curriculum centers on open, creative prompts. Classes are lively, excited spaces where enthusiasm for writing is infectious and everyone is encouraged to find their voice.
CORE CLASSES: IMMERSIVE LANGUAGE ARTS
The Frog Hollow Core Class curriculum integrates arts, music, social studies, mythology, and ecology into a solid core of language arts. Through a mix of writing, art projects, stories, games, and singing, students receive a firm foundation in creative writing, rhetoric, grammar, spelling, and literature.
In this comprehensive, in-depth class, we will immerse ourselves in language arts broadly and creatively. We will cover writing mechanics including spelling, grammar, and word roots in addition to writing poetry, stories, research projects, persuasive essays and more. We’ll explore storytelling, the history of the English language, and map-making as a narrative tool. Classes also incorporate art, singing, and active outdoor play and nature immersion.
YOUNG WRITERS’ WORKSHOP: CREATIVE CAMARADERIE
In the Young Writer’s Workshop, students meet weekly with other young writers. Classes are safe spaces to write about what matters to you, plumb the limits of your imagination, challenge yourself, try new forms and techniques, and develop your voice as a writer and a human being.
We explore writing fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Every week we will learn about writing craft, practice writing techniques, and listen to each other’s work — and of course, we’ll write! Drawing on the work of contemporary and classic writers as well as our own lives and imaginations, we will experiment with many elements of creative writing, from metaphor and sound-play to dialogue and voice.
Located in West Seattle, Carnation and Online
