About
**This workshop will be live streamed via Zoom.**
It’s time to apply to schools and the dreaded personal essay looms overhead! Where do you start? You can start here. Learn how to write an impressive essay that reflects your uniqueness and catches the eye of college admissions. In both two-hour-class sessions, you will brainstorm and workshop ideas for finding the heart of your essay, select unique details to support your theme, and develop a structure that works for a truly personal essay. And have fun doing it!
Join Emmy Award-winning writer and best-selling author, Lynn Brunelle and award-winning author, Washington State McAuliffe Teaching Fellow, and former teacher and college instructor, Maureen McQuerry
Details:
- Registration for this class will close on Friday, Oct. 16 at 1:00 PM.
- This class will be taught via the Zoom video conferencing program. For a great video on how to use Zoom, watch this tutorial.
- A link will be sent to the email you registered with to join the Zoom online meeting. Please watch for this email.
- Tuition assistance is available. Click here to apply.
- In gratitude to our members for their continued support during the closures, BARN is offering all classes for free to BARN members through December 2020. Members are still responsible for paying materials and mailing fees, where applicable. If a class is full, please add your name to the wait list in case a space opens up or we are able to offer another class. Check our calendar frequently as more classes are being added each week!
Instructor Bio:
Lynn Brunelle is a four-time Emmy Award-winning writer for Bill Nye the Science Guy with over 25 years’ experience writing for people of all ages, across all manner of media. Previously a classroom science, English, and art teacher for kids K-12, an editor, illustrator, and award-winning author of over 45 titles, Lynn has created, developed, and written projects for Chronicle, Workman, National Geographic, Scholastic, Random House, Penguin, A&E, Discovery Channel, Disney, ABC TV, NBC, NPR, the Annenburg Foundation, World Almanac, Cranium, and PBS.
A regular contributor to NBC’s New Day Northwest as a family science guru, Martha Stewart Radio as a family activity consultant, and a contributor to NPR’s Science Friday, she is the creator of the Mama Gone Geek blog and Tabletop Science (videos that make science fun and accessible). Lynn won five Telly Awards and two CINE awards for her music videos, which range in topics from bullying prevention, child protection, and the adolescent brain for international curriculums through Committee for Children, to independent projects encouraging science literacy and STEAM.
Maureen McQuerry is an award winning poet, novelist and teacher. Her YA novel, The Peculiars is an ALA Best Book for Young Adult Readers 2013 and winner of the Westchester Award. Her other novels include the Celtic Mythology duo Beyond the Door and The Telling Stone, and most recently Between Before and After, one of Barnes and Nobles most anticipated historical fictions for 2019. Big Ideas for Little Philosophers, a 4 book series featuring Socrates, Descartes, Aristotle and DeBeauvior, for preschoolers, releases in July 2020 to be followed by Big Ideas for Little Environmentalists.
Contact: Sallie Maron writers.lead@bainbridgebarn.org
