Animals as Story Starters  

Stories ideas come from our real-world experiences with people, places, and things. One great source of inspiration is animals in their natural environments. In this workshop, we’ll use animal behaviours, habitats, and adaptations to generate story characters, settings, and conflicts. The workshop will begin with an overview of Jen’s early artistic development and the creative process, and end with a Q&A period. 

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Generate, gather, and organize ideas to write for an intended purpose and audience; draft and revise their writing, using a variety of literary forms and stylistic elements appropriate for the purpose and audience; demonstrate an understanding that animals have distinct characteristics; demonstrate an understanding of habitats and communities and of interrelationships among the organisms that live in them; describe adaptations, including physical and/or behavioural characteristics, that allow various animals to survive in their natural environment.

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