Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Final product from Creative Writing class

Well, this was an interesting experience. I can say it was good for Nathan and I can also say that I now am extremely unsure of these after school class taught at Carl Sandburg lol. It was the most expensive class offered and somehow it's the only class I have had to do a ton of work for. I had no idea what the writing specifics were. The first few weeks, no matter how many times I asked, the teacher just kept saying the story was 16 pages. Well there is a lot of room for interpretation there. In the end she didn't care if it was one sentence on each of the 16 pages or more, but it took many parents peppering her with questions on specifics to find this out. So poor Nathan was doing a bunch of unnecessary writing that he didn't really want to do to make the story longer until we had clarification. I had to do all of the printing at home and all of the binding. Then I had to bring food for the author night. That wouldn't be such a big deal if most of the parents weren't wondering what exactly the $180 was for that we spent for this class if we had to do so much at home? The last class I signed up for at the school was $150. They spent an hour with friends after school playing Legos and I did nothing at all but pick Nathan up when it was over. End rant. Here is Nathan's awesome book.