Mining Memories: Discovering, crafting, and telling personal and family stories: Muriel uses graphic organizers, role playing, photos, and more to help students “mine memories” and create memoir and family stories to share with others. She interweaves techniques from process writing with skills of the storyteller.
Meets language arts and social studies standards. Wonderful for recognizing diversity.
May be adapted for all ages and intergenerational programs. (2-5 one hour sessions)

A Special Woman in My Life: Muriel clearly values each individual as she helps students develop interview, writing and performance skills to create a “gift of the heart.” Each student focuses on an important woman in his/her life telling a story using words, photography, artifacts.
Perfect for Mother’s Day or Woman’s History Month.
Meets language arts and social studies standards. Wonderful for recognizing diversity.
Appropriate for ages 7 through adults. (4-5 one-two hour sessions)

Storytelling Live- Storytelling Clubs: Muriel brings together small groups of youngsters, teens, or adults to develop storytelling clubs to meet each groups interest. Student tellers may decide to perform at a one-time performance or on an ongoing basis.
Meets language arts and social studies standards. Wonderful for recognizing diversity.
All grades, adults, camp or scout groups, seniors, intergenerational.

Sharing the Past and the Present: Muriel brings senior citizens and young children together to share stories of the past and the present. Adult mentors help the children gather stories from these interactions. Amazing pieces and relationships often develop.
Especially appropriate for grades 1-6 and their adult partners.

Write Away! Writing Workshop Programs for All Ages: Muriel comes into classrooms for varying amounts of time to conduct writing workshops. Programs usually culminate in “published writing” presented at a “publishing party.” Create Mother’s Day, Father’s Day or Grandparent’s Day poetry anthologies or other writing genres.
Meets language arts standards.
Especially appropriate for grades 1-5 but may adapted for all ages.

Muriel is happy to speak with you about developing programs to specifically meet your needs.

Correlated With State Education Standards and Local District Standards.

Grant Writing Assistance Available.