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The Dark Forest : A 5-Day Creative Writing Course on Fantasy Fiction

A team of Cambridge-Certified Teachers of English that offers thoughtfully designed programs to spark the love for expression in children

About the Class

The Dark Forest is a 5-day virtual course for 9-12 year olds, that teaches them how to write a fantasy story from scratch. Through a series of engaging and interactive activities, the children explore the features and tropes of the genre of fantasy fiction, and learn the structure of a short story.

In this workshop, your child will:

  • Explore the features of fantasy fiction.
  • Learn how to write a short story from scratch.
  • Get the unique opportunity to create his own fictional world, complete with fantastical characters, a believable fictional language, and a magic system.
  • Develop their problem solving and analytical skills.
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About Common Room

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Common Room

Common Room is an online platform that offers fun and engaging creative writing courses and resources for children of ages 7 to 15.

Traditionally, a common room is a shared lounge, often attached to dorm rooms in boarding schools, where students socialise, have late night study sessions, host house parties and engage in other after school activities. Drawing inspiration from this much loved space, Common Room is an initiative to create a shared virtual learning space for young learners, to engage in magical learning experiences.

The Dark Forest course is delivered by Miss Vaijayanthi.

Vaijayanthi is a Cambridge Certified Teacher of English with experience teaching students from India and the UAE. She has delivered training to students of all age groups through her time at The Hindu.

In addition to her Cambridge CELTA certification, Vaijayanthi is also a Licensed Teacher in the UAE, the process of which has helped her gain insight on the learning needs of students of different nationalities.

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