Students in the Bobby Hawthorne Experience at the 2018 MIPA Summer Workshop are learning how to include sources’ backstories and write in ways that engage and inform the reader. These techniques, according to instructor Bobby Hawthorne, will help them to establish a voice and engage the reader to connect with the story. “He encourages us to go beyond the basics,” student Raija … [Read more...] about Bobby Hawthorne students learn how to establish voice
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Students learn to ‘search for stories’ in Bobby Hawthorne Experience
At this year’s MIPA Summer Workshop, high school students from across the state of Michigan and beyond have the opportunity to learn how to create powerful stories in The Bobby Hawthorne Experience class. According to Hawthorne, author of The Radical Write and numerous other journalism textbooks, the way these students learn storytelling may be totally different from the way … [Read more...] about Students learn to ‘search for stories’ in Bobby Hawthorne Experience
Writers face generational challenges in ‘The Bobby Hawthorne Experience’
Students of The Bobby Hawthorne Experience reflected on how the class's lecture impacted them. International Academy senior, Nancy Huang was one of those students. “We had a guest speaker come in –it was really informative- she’s actually from the business, and she’s still a student. I think that’s why we can identify really well with Julia and what her work is.” Huang … [Read more...] about Writers face generational challenges in ‘The Bobby Hawthorne Experience’
The Bobby Hawthorne Experience learns the difficulty of column writing on the last day of MIPA summer camp
On Aug. 1, the last full day of the MIPA summer journalism workshop, students in The Bobby Hawthorne experience worked to find their true identity when they completed their personal writing assignment. Hawthorne required them to turn the story in by the end of class and have about 600 words. "Today they are working on personal writing/opinion columns," Hawthorne said, "so … [Read more...] about The Bobby Hawthorne Experience learns the difficulty of column writing on the last day of MIPA summer camp
The Bobby Hawthorne Experience prepares for panel of experts on bullying
On July 30 in Bobby Hawthorne's class, The Bobby Hawthorne Experience, MIPA students learned the big differences between genuine muscular writing and pretentious weak writing. With their newfound information, they planned to attend the seminar this evening pertaining to the subject of bullying. After attending this meeting, all campers taking the class will write a story of … [Read more...] about The Bobby Hawthorne Experience prepares for panel of experts on bullying