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Elite Scholastic Prep Camp G7-G12

✍️ Elite Scholastic Prep Camp (Grades 7–12)
Unlock your storytelling potential and shine in the nation’s most prestigious student competition — the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards!
 
Our Elite Scholastic Prep Camp offers two tailored tracks to help every young writer, from emerging talent to advanced award-winners, craft their very best work.
 
🎯 Camp 1: Scholastic Prep Intensive 
For Grades 7–10 aspiring writers preparing for the Scholastic Writing Competition！
This intensive camp helps students:
  • Develop core creative writing techniques proven to transform raw creativity into polished, award-winning storytelling.
  • Gain mentorship on narrative craft, style, and structure.
  • Draft and refine two complete stories ready for Scholastic submission.
💡 Perfect for students looking to break into competitions with confidence.
🗓️ Camp 1: Scholastic Prep Intensive Schedule
• Grades 7–11
9/30–12/2 TUE (10 lessons $600)
🕖 8:00–9:00 PM ET
🕖 5:00–6:00 PM PT
👩‍🏫 Instructor: Mr. Raymond Zhu
 
🗓️ Camp 1B: Scholastic Prep Intensive Schedule
•For Grades 7–11 Students Prerequisite: CW100 or equivalent level
10/28–12/2 TUE (6 lessons $360)
🕖 9:00–10:00 PM ET
🕖 6:00–7:00 PM PT
👩‍🏫 Instructor: Mr. Raymond Zhu
 
💻 Live Zoom Classes (recordings available) 
👥 Small Group Format — 4–8 students per class
📝 Individually Graded Homework 
 
🎯 Camp 2: Advanced Scholastic Workshop
For advanced writers (Grades 7–12) and past award winners.
This workshop-style program helps students:
  • Elevate existing stories with advanced literary techniques.
  • Deepen character development, voice, and stylistic sophistication.
  • Optimize their best pieces for Scholastic submission — or even potential publication.
💡 Designed as a high-impact experience to push strong writers to the next level.
 
🗓️ Advanced Scholastic Workshop Schedule
•For Grades 7–12 who have the draft for Scholastic
10/8-10/29&11/12-11/19 WED
   🕘 8:00–9:00 PM ET
   🕘 5:00–6:00 PM PT
   👨‍🏫 Instructor: Mr. Tony Hao    
   💻 Live Zoom Classes  
   👥 Small Group Format – 4–6 advanced students
   📝 Individual Instructor Feedback  
📝 Pre-Class Requirement
One week before the first session, students must email a complete draft (max 1500 words) of an original story or personal essay to the instructor at tony@elevated.school for workshop scheduling.
 
🎯 Award-Winning Curriculum & Instructors – Our camp teaches the core techniques that have helped ElevatEd students earn over 227 Scholastic Writing Awards across 8+ categories, including fiction, flash, memoir, and humor.
 👨‍🏫 Mr. Raymond Zhu
  • A graduate of Georgia Tech with highest honors, Mr. Zhu combines a strong STEM background with a deep passion for creative writing and critical expression. His work has been featured in Rob Walker’s acclaimed collection The Art of Noticing, earning praise for its originality and insight.  His students have achieved outstanding results in top writing competitions through work that moves both judges and readers.
 
👨‍🏫 Mr. Tony Hao
  • A graduate of Yale University with a degree in English Literature, Mr. Hao is an award-winning fiction writer whose work has been featured in several respected literary journals. His students have earned top honors in regional and national competitions. Known for blending technical precision with emotional depth, Mr. Hao guides students to write with clarity, purpose, and heart.
 
🚀Go Scholastic -  Express Deeply. Write Powerfully. Win Creatively!
 

  • 📌 Camp 1: Scholastic Prep Intensive

    Lesson 1: Introduction & Foundations

    • Timeline for Scholastic Awards

    • Showing vs. Telling

    • What is a “Picture Paragraph”?

    Lesson 2: Red Flags vs. Green Lights

    • Common pitfalls in student writing

    • What judges notice—and what they avoid

    Lesson 3: Writing That Flows

    • Patterns and motifs that make writing immersive

    • How to create narrative rhythm

    Lesson 4: The List-Refine-Group Technique & Storytelling Structures

    • A student-favorite approach to creative idea generation

    • Inspiration-writing and creative momentum

    Lesson 5: Storytelling Structures

    • The Lens Technique and Emotional Arc

    • Building strong narrative progression

    Lesson 6: Poetic Devices and Literary Motifs
        Advanced use of language and imagery
        Building subtle patterns into story structure

    Lesson 7: Character Development & Conflict Design
       Crafting layered characters with complex goals
       Making conflict meaningful, not mechanical

    Lesson 8: Storytelling Structures that Work
       Explore plot arcs and emotional pacing that win awards
       Compare flash vs. short story narrative structures

    Lesson 9: Setting and Point of View
       Use of space, time, and sensory detail
       Experimenting with voice and narrative distance

    Lesson 10: Polish, Revise, Submit
       Final editing tools, checklists, and guided feedback
       Submission formatting and next-step planning

  • 📌 Camp 2: Advanced Scholastic Workshop

    Session 1: Storytelling Beyond the Basics

    • Literary concepts overview: narrative risk, emotional arc, POV depth

    • “Defamiliarization” and pushing narrative boundaries

    Session 2: Openings & First Impressions

    • How to captivate readers from the first line

    • Defamiliarization in action: A Hundred Years of Solitude

    Session 3: Reading Between the Lines

    • Subtlety in narration and emotional inference

    Session 4: Dialogue That Reveals and Hides

    • Subtext and power dynamics in dialogue

    Session 5: Writing with Emotional Honesty

    • Vulnerability and restraint in storytelling

    Session 6: Revision & Looking Ahead

    • Story diagnostics: What to cut, what to keep, how to deepen

  • 名师：Mr. Raymond Zhu

    Mr. Raymond Zhu 老师毕业于佐治亚理工学院（Georgia Tech），以优异成绩获得荣誉学位。他不仅在科技领域有扎实背景，更对写作充满热情，长期致力于创意写作与批判性表达的探索。

    Raymond 老师的作品曾被知名 Rob Walker 收录于创意写作精选集《The Art of Noticing》，深受读者喜爱。他以其独特的视角和文风，激发学生发现生活中的细节与故事潜力。

    作为一位备受尊敬的创意写作指导老师，Raymond 带领的学生在各类写作比赛中屡获佳绩。他善于激发学生的表达欲望，帮助他们在文字中建立个性、打磨技巧，并以真实动人的作品赢得评委与读者的认可。

  • 名师： Mr. Tony Hao

    Mr. Tony Hao 老师毕业于耶鲁大学文学专业，专注于英语文学与小说写作，具有深厚的人文素养与创作功底。他本人曾荣获多个小说写作奖项，作品也曾发表在多份知名英语文学期刊上，广受好评。

    作为一位经验丰富的写作导师，Tony 老师擅长指导学生打磨语言、构建深刻故事，并挖掘出每位学生作品中独特的个性与情感。他所指导的学生在区域性与全美写作竞赛中屡获佳绩，包括 Scholastic Writing Awards 等权威赛事。

    他坚信写作不仅是技巧的训练，更是思维与情感的艺术表达。在他的课堂上，学生不仅提升写作能力，更学会如何通过文字真正“打动人心”。

  • 📌 Camp 1B: Scholastic Prep Intensive

    Lesson 1: Storytelling Structures

    • The Lens Technique and Emotional Arc

    • Building strong narrative progression

    Lesson 2: Poetic Devices and Literary Motifs
        Advanced use of language and imagery
        Building subtle patterns into story structure

    Lesson 3: Character Development & Conflict Design
       Crafting layered characters with complex goals
       Making conflict meaningful, not mechanical

    Lesson 4: Storytelling Structures that Work
       Explore plot arcs and emotional pacing that win awards
       Compare flash vs. short story narrative structures

    Lesson 5: Setting and Point of View
       Use of space, time, and sensory detail
       Experimenting with voice and narrative distance

    Lesson 6: Polish, Revise, Submit
       Final editing tools, checklists, and guided feedback
       Submission formatting and next-step planning

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