We think these 3 resources pair perfectly together so grab them together at a discounted price! 
Included are 3 separate shop resources:
1. Wild Words - Gary Paulsen Writers Workshop
2. Wild Words - Jean Craighead George Writers Workshop
3. My Side of the Mountain Book Dive
 
Note: Please read the description carefully and do not purchase if you already own any of these resources. Refunds can not be given for misunderstanding the listing as it's all included here. 
 
Wild Words - A Writer’s Workshop in the style of Gary Paulson
 
If Gary Paulson were to introduce this study we think he might say something like:
 
“Alright, listen up, writers. You think you want to write like me, Gary Paulsen? Like scraping the grit of survival onto the page, huh? Well, this isn’t summer camp story time. This is about getting down to the bone, the bare-knuckle truth of words. We'll be talking wilderness, sure, the bite of the wind and the gnaw of hunger. But mostly, we'll be wrestling with words, learning how to make them fight for you. No flowery stuff here. We'll be using echoes to hammer home a point, shrapnel sentences to show, not tell, and gritty descriptions that pack a punch. You’ll learn to throw rocks at your characters and get wild with your words. Over nine lessons, we'll sweat and struggle, learn how to build a story that immerses your reader like a blizzard in the arctic, and maybe, just maybe, squeeze a decent story out of you. This isn’t for the faint of heart. You ready? Then let's get started.”
 
Gary Paulsen is one of our family’s favourite authors and he was often first author I suggested to my public school students who hated reading - they all loved him too. We hope you enjoy learning a bit more about this legend who gave us over 200 books and that you feel inspired by him as you find your own voice as a writer. This Writer’s Workshop study includes the following lessons:
 
🪓 Gary Paulsen Life Timeline - Research and add events
🪓 Pivotal Moments - Learn about the librarian who changed Paulsen’s life and reflect on your own influences. 
🪓 Descriptive Writing - How to punch your readers in the gut.
🪓 The Madness of Moose - Lessons on Personal Anecdotes
🪓 Climbing through Plot - using elements of plot to tell your personal story.
🪓 Wild Words - 2 lessons on gritty vocabulary
🪓 Throw Rocks at your Characters - Conflict is king. Let’s learn how to use it. 
 🪓 Echoes & Shrapnel Sentences - perfect Paulsen’s signature use of “re-says” and artful sentence fragments. 
🪓 Wild Words Throwdown - Put together all you learned and write your own short survival story.
 
This resource is chalked full of explicit writing exercises and lessons written in the voice of Paulsen that is sure to coax even the most reluctant writer into crafting with their words. 
 
Great for a wide range of ages. Just require higher level writing from older students. Ages 10-16+.
 
Wild Words | Jean Craighead George
 
Jean Craighead George is author of some of the most immersive nature survival books such as My Side of the Mountain and Julie of the Wolves. As both an author and a naturalist she has a unique way of making every book a bit like a naturalist handbook while also weaving captivating stories. 
 
In this edition of “Wild Words” students will be introduced to George’s life and then move on to 5 lessons all related to developing nature as a character in your story. Nature is far more than just a setting and these lessons will help students focus in on the techniques to bring nature alive. 
 
Lessons include:
 
🌲 Identifying and highlighting nature as a character in Jean’s works.
 
🌲 Weaving Wild Words - continue with quotes from MSOTM and write on to develop nature as a character.
 
🌲 Nature is a Vibe - Create a mood board for a certain region of nature that they’ll then use to help inspire writing nature as a character. 
 
🌲 Unleashing Wild Words - A vocabulary lesson where students take a list of wild words and use them to rewrite a boring paragraph. 
 
🌲 Personification - Learning to use personification to bring nature to life. 
 
My Side of the Mountain Book Dive
 
This activity based deep dive is an excellent companion to the much loved book, “My Side of the Mountain”. (novel not included) Students will participate in several writing activities such as drawing connections of the nicknames like Thoreau to real people, writing about and locating past family land, writing why they’d take certain items into the wild, whittling,  and  more. The study also includes art activities such as drawing tutorials, collage and building with clay. Additionally students will engage in various hands on activities that Sam did in the book.