Thursdays
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3:45pm - 4:45pm
9 Classes
10/16, 10/23, 10/30, 11/6, 11/13, 11/20, 12/4, 12/11, 12/18
Grades 2-3
Enrollment pending
The Harker School - Lower
4300 Bucknall Rd, San Jose, CA 95130Fridays
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2:30pm - 3:30pm
12 Classes
9/19, 9/26, 10/3, 10/10, 10/17, 10/24, 10/31, 11/7, 11/14, 11/21, 12/5, 12/12
Grades 3-5
4 students
Millbrook Elementary School
3200 Millbrook Dr San Jose CA 95148Dreaming on Paper: A Journalism & Imagination Series
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September 19, 2025
Millbrook Elementary School
I really enjoyed it. I thought well, I'm glad that I kind, I had my my lesson plan broken up into different activities. A, we even did a play before. We went into the writing activity, I had them stand up and we did a little shake down with our bodies. Like stretching our hands all the way up to the ceiling. Reaching down shaking or legs. And then jumping in plans, Or for about a few seconds and then and then we went into the writing and so I'm really appreciative of the students being engaged and willing to kind of be out of the box. Be silly answer questions. They were excited whenever I called for volunteers to share. So I really appreciate it. I didn't really know what to expect at first given for students. And then it ended up actually being to students. So even with two students, it was a really great class. I really appreciate it. Thank you.
So for our first day, we started off with getting to know each other and really introducing the idea of what journalism is why it matters and how our imagination can transform storytelling and we really emphasized on finding and sharing good news and and sharing what has happened in our lives. You know, this week. And so in our warm-up, I had that the students create name tags To put on their desks and then we took turns sharing our names and I had them even share something that happened to them this week and in that exercise not only did we get to know each other a little bit but I was able to summarize their story using a headline that I wrote down on the Whiteboard. I went into a lesson and Define journalism and also Define what a Is and what a good journalist does, which we then Define together using a lot of Engagement really? I had them to find what imagination is and and we came up with you know creating a visual and using our senses creating a story and using yeah sensory detail to help other spark their imagination as well. We had A dream Circle. So I had each person we took about, you know, ten minutes for them to write on paper a story, something that they had as a goal and I encourage them to use a sent their senses and what we've already, you know, worked on so far and then we shared. And then that was pretty much the whole class and yeah.