Journal Buddies
(Critical Thinking and Creative Writing)
Learn how to write authentic and compelling English written pieces from Mr Johann D.T, a Modern Linguistics & Master in Arts teacher at Oxford University full of enthusiasm and passion.
1. Introduction, meet your new instructor:
In your first lesson, Mr Johann D.T shares his perspective on the art of writing and who ultimately gives your journal / story / essay / book its meaning.
2. Getting Started as a little Writer:
Metrotown “Journal Buddies” writing course encourages you to find your path, overcome obstacles like fear, and start writing by sharing Mr Johann's own writer’s stories, poems, and creative process.
3. Story and Plot:
Learn what makes a strong plot. In HK Metrotown Academy's “Journal Buddies” writing courses, Mr Johann advises you to study myths, fairy tales, and other historical works of literature so that you can use them as building blocks for your stories.
4. Structuring Your fictional story:
Layered Narratives and Other Variations: Mr Johann illustrates the myriad ways you can structure your story and create a multi-layered narrative, using the classic tales Little Red Riding Hood, Arabian Nights, and her novel The Blind Assassin as examples.
5. Who Tells the Story:
Narrative Point of View; Choosing the right point of view to tell your story from involves a lot of trial and error. Mr Johann explains the impact this decision has on your story and offers an exercise to help you explore the effects of various points of view.
6. Point of View Case Studies:
In this chapter, Mr Johann discusses his use of multiple points of view in his Stories and poems.
7. Bringing Characters to Life Through Detail:
Actions and reactions reveal character, but so do details the writer thoughtfully weaves into the story. “Journal Buddies “ writing course offers concrete tools to help you create nuanced, well-developed characters you know by heart.
8. Creating Compelling Characters :
We teach why the most compelling characters are often not very likeable, and delves into how gender plays into our expectations about character.
9. Writing Through Roadblocks:
Learn Our advice for overcoming challenges such as constant interruption, writer’s block, or a narrative problem you can’t figure out how to solve.
10. Crafting Dialogue:
Our “Journal Buddies “ writing course teaches how to use dialogue to reveal character and story, and discusses the importance of making your dialogue authentic to the time and place in which your narrative transpires.
11. Revealing the World Through Sensory Imagery:
The more specific your details, the more engaged your readers. Learn how to illustrate her approach to imagery.
12. Prose Style and Texture:
Learn the difference between style and description as our teachers illustrate two different prose style extremes—baroque and plainsong.
13. The Door to Your “Journal Buddies” little Books:
The Importance of the First Five Paragraphs, HK Metrotown Academy “Journal Buddies” course shares some of our favourite opening lines and underscores the value of making your first five paragraphs utterly compelling.
14. Writing the Middle and Ending:
We teach our approach to keeping readers engaged through the middle of your fictional story and discusses the merits of closed and open endings to your story.
15. Revision:
Seeing Your Work A new For a writer, revision is an opportunity to take a fresh look at your story and consider new possibilities. Learn the value of soliciting feedback from select readers and the importance of a good line editor.
16. Speculative Fiction:
Ideas to Genre
Learn the approach to writing a speculative fictional story and our advice on generating ideas and building your world in this genre.
17. Speculative Fiction Case Study:
Offering a first-hand look at some of these materials.
18. Research and Historical Accuracy:
Getting details right is critical in historical fiction and can lend believability to any story. Our Course emphasises this point but also shows how to avoid letting research slow you down.
Phonics and Rhymes: 60 min (Pre N-K3)
Metrotown innovative Phonics and rhymes program will help your child to practice essential key skills needed to progress through the formative primary years. Fun, magical characters and fantastic illustrations are combined with easy step-by-step National Curriculum based activities, to lay a very solid foundation required to become a fluent reader and accurate speller.
Step 1 -Recognizing common vowel sounds and their spelling patterns, practicing consonant blends, applying plural endings and splitting words into syllables.
Step 2 -Applying spelling rules, adding prefixes and suffixes, understanding verbs endings, using apostrophes, making compound words and identifying silent letters.
