setting, and plot, which will fill three typed pages up to a cliffhanger. Students then finish the story by writing their very own unique endings. Should these all-new endings win over Professor Barnacle, all students will get the Barnacle Stamp of Approval, as well as leave with a bound and illustrated book to take home. We need 4–6 volunteers for this Field Trip. If you enjoy zany characters, crazy plot lines, and working in large groups with younger students, then Storytelling and Bookmaking is for you!
Choose-Your-Own-Adventure (CYOA)
This Field Trip is an action-packed thriller that sends students and volunteers home with a fully functional 13-page Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book. Led by our volunteer Storytellers, students are introduced to the ChooseYour-Own-Adventure genre and its unique storytelling style. Volunteer Typists help students brainstorm plot points and story structure, and transcribe the stories on our laptops. Students begin their very own adventure by writing the first page as a class, but stop when the second-person protagonist has a decision to make. At that point, the class splits into two groups, each led by one of our volunteer Typists, and each writes a branch of the story. As more choices present themselves and storylines come to an end, the groups re-split and re-merge. The volunteer Formatter/Editor collects and arranges the stories into a book and reads through everything with an editorial eye. Every student ends the Field Trip by individually finishing the last four unresolved story branches, and everyone takes home a copy of the adventure! We need 5–10 volunteers for this Field Trip. If you enjoy dynamic adventures, present tense and 2nd person, and working in small groups with older students, turn to page 38. (Kidding, just sign up for a CYOA field trip.)
Well–Wishing and Poetry Writing (MAR VISTA)
During this Field Trip, the students find out that Professor Barnacle’s beloved pet animal is feeling down, and are urged to write a book of poetry in order to help it feel better. Led by our volunteer Storyteller, the students review different characteristics of a poem and poetic techniques such as alliteration, onomatopoeia, sensory details, and personification. With the help of volunteer Scribes, who work with small groups of students to help with brainstorming, poetry writing, and transcribing, the students will write three poems: a list poem written together by the entire class, an ode written together in small groups, and finally a narrative poem the students write 26
individually. The volunteer Formatter/Editor collects and transcribes the poems into a book template and reads through everything with an editorial eye. At the end of the day they will read aloud from their newly-published book of poetry that they get to take home. (You’ll get a copy too!) We need 4–10 volunteers for this field trip. If you enjoy alliteration and onomatopoeia, helping animals, and working in small groups with late elementary students, get involved with this poetic powerhouse!” We need 4–10 volunteers for this Field Trip. If you enjoy alliteration and onomatopoeia, helping animals, and working in small groups with late elementary students, get involved with this poetic powerhouse!
Poetry and the Time Travel Machine (ECHO PARK) Students will travel through space and time through poetry. Professor Barnacle’s time travel machine is broken, and they are inconsolable. Students will learn poetic techniques like personification and sensory details in order to write poetry that has the power to send Professor Barnacle to past and future eras. Students will work in small groups with our volunteers to write two collaborative poems focusing on the past and the future and one individual poem centered around the here and the now. At the end of the Field Trip, each student will leave as published poets, taking home their own poetry collection. We need 4–10 volunteers for this Field Trip. If you enjoy alliteration and onomatopoeia, time travel, and working in small groups with late elementary students, get involved with this poetic adventure!
SCREENWRITING
(Recommended for grades 9–12) In this Field Trip, designed with the help of a professional screenwriter, students work in small groups on a script written for stage or screen while learning to craft scenes and write engaging dialogue. Students will leave with a bound script, published and ready to send right off to Hollywood. You will introduce students to the art of writing for the screen. Working with a small group, you will guide them as they come up with original characters, a setting, and conflict. Together, they’ll write three scenes to tell a story. Students spend time learning about dialogue and action, the arc of a well-constructed story, and crafting characters around what they say and how they appear on the screen. They then have a chance to practice a table read as they make edits to the dialogue based on workshopping it with each 27