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| title  = Behind the Mask: Superheroes Revealed
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| label2 = Course Code | data2 = [[Behind the Mask: Superheroes Revealed|MASK]]
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| label3 = Year Opened | data3 = 2017
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| label4 = Sites Offered | data4 = [[GIL]]
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| label5 = Previously Offered | data5 = [[NRS]], [[NUE]], [[LAJ]], [[SPE]], [[SAN]], [[STP]]
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{{Baby CTY Courses}}
 
{{Baby CTY Courses}}
[[Behind the Mask: Superheroes Revealed]] ([[MASK]]) is a writing course for [[Baby CTY]]. It is offered at [[Brooklandville]], [[La Jolla]], [[San Mateo]], [[Santa Monica]] and [[Sandy Spring]]. Students must have completed 2nd or 3rd grade to enter this course.
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==Course Description==
  
==Course Description==
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[https://cty.jhu.edu/programs/on-campus/courses/behind-the-mask-superheroes-revealed-mask#mask From the CTY Course Catalog] (2023):
  
[http://cty.jhu.edu/summer/grades2-6/catalog/writing.html#behind-the-mask From the CTY Summer Catalog]:
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BAM! POW! ZAP! Everyone knows Spider-Man, Wonder Woman, and Captain America, but superheroes can come in many shapes and sizes. Must a superhero fight crime? Is Elsa from Frozen a superhero—and what about BB-8, Gru, or Moana? How do storytellers draft heart-stopping tales of suspense? Explore these questions and more on this heroic writing adventure. Like the professional writers at Disney, you’ll learn to craft creative stories using literary techniques like descriptive writing, symbolism, plot structure, and figurative language. After examining graphic novels and a variety of other sources in literature and popular media, invent your own vivid characters and unique settings. You’ll learn to think critically about your favorite characters, use storyboards, write opinion essays, and create your own unique and compelling tales of adventure. Then you’ll polish your stories during in-class workshops with input from your instructor and classmates. These storytelling, close-reading, and editing skills will come in handy during all of your future academic pursuits.
  
BAM! POW! ZAP! Everyone knows Spider-Man, Wonder Woman, and Captain America, but superheroes can come in many different shapes and sizes. What does it take to be a superhero? Can Elsa from Frozen be considered a superhero? What about BB-8, Gru, or Hermione?
 
  
Like the writers at Disney, students craft compelling and creative stories using literary techniques like descriptive writing, symbolism, plot structure, and figurative language. By examining a variety of sources in literature and popular media, they develop their own vivid characters and unique settings.
 
  
Writing projects may include creative stories, opinion pieces, and storyboards. Their tales of adventure are polished during in-class workshops with input from their instructor and classmates.
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Latest revision as of 17:41, 7 November 2023

Behind the Mask: Superheroes Revealed
Writing Course
Course CodeMASK
Year Opened2017
Sites OfferedGIL
Previously OfferedNRS, NUE, LAJ, SPE, SAN, STP
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Course Description

From the CTY Course Catalog (2023):

BAM! POW! ZAP! Everyone knows Spider-Man, Wonder Woman, and Captain America, but superheroes can come in many shapes and sizes. Must a superhero fight crime? Is Elsa from Frozen a superhero—and what about BB-8, Gru, or Moana? How do storytellers draft heart-stopping tales of suspense? Explore these questions and more on this heroic writing adventure. Like the professional writers at Disney, you’ll learn to craft creative stories using literary techniques like descriptive writing, symbolism, plot structure, and figurative language. After examining graphic novels and a variety of other sources in literature and popular media, invent your own vivid characters and unique settings. You’ll learn to think critically about your favorite characters, use storyboards, write opinion essays, and create your own unique and compelling tales of adventure. Then you’ll polish your stories during in-class workshops with input from your instructor and classmates. These storytelling, close-reading, and editing skills will come in handy during all of your future academic pursuits.