Owning your Identity: Finding your Voice Through Writing, Grades 9-10
15 class sessions, 2 hours per class (30 hours of instruction)
June 26 - July 20 (No class July 4)
Mondays - Thursdays, 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. PST
Course Description:
Do you have experiences and stories that others can relate to or benefit from? We all do! Be empowered and inspired by other BIPOC writers and poets, such as Amanda Gordon and G Yamazawa, and find your own unique voice. Oftentimes, writing is overlooked for what it truly is--a form of self-expression, storytelling, and connection. What makes you, you? Join this course and learn what it means to take risks, share personal experiences, explore diverse and relevant mentor texts (prose and poetry), engage in meaningful discourse and literary analysis, participate in writing groups, and find your voice through authentic writing. Participate in a course that will challenge you to find your voice through self-exploration and its relation to the framework of what makes up your own unique cultural identity.
Instructor Biography:
Esther Cho is currently in her 7th year of teaching high school at the Walnut Valley Unified School District serving as an English Language Arts/ELD teacher and EL Coordinator/Liaison. She has taught a variety of courses such as British Literature, American Literature, ELD I-III and English 1/1H. Esther earned her B.A. in English and Master of Arts in Teaching from UCI, and became a UCI Writing Project Fellow in 2018. Esther is passionate about helping students discover their unique voice by bringing their personal experiences, interests, and skills to diversify and enrich the classroom. Her hope is that students feel empowered to use writing as a creative, self-expressive platform, and be effective communicators both in and out of the classroom.
Do you have experiences and stories that others can relate to or benefit from? We all do! Be empowered and inspired by other BIPOC writers and poets, such as Amanda Gordon and G Yamazawa, and find your own unique voice. Oftentimes, writing is overlooked for what it truly is--a form of self-expression, storytelling, and connection. What makes you, you? Join this course and learn what it means to take risks, share personal experiences, explore diverse and relevant mentor texts (prose and poetry), engage in meaningful discourse and literary analysis, participate in writing groups, and find your voice through authentic writing. Participate in a course that will challenge you to find your voice through self-exploration and its relation to the framework of what makes up your own unique cultural identity.
Instructor Biography:
Esther Cho is currently in her 7th year of teaching high school at the Walnut Valley Unified School District serving as an English Language Arts/ELD teacher and EL Coordinator/Liaison. She has taught a variety of courses such as British Literature, American Literature, ELD I-III and English 1/1H. Esther earned her B.A. in English and Master of Arts in Teaching from UCI, and became a UCI Writing Project Fellow in 2018. Esther is passionate about helping students discover their unique voice by bringing their personal experiences, interests, and skills to diversify and enrich the classroom. Her hope is that students feel empowered to use writing as a creative, self-expressive platform, and be effective communicators both in and out of the classroom.