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Show Creative writers at Centerville Students at Centerville and Muel- : ler Park Junior; High Schools recently re-cently spent seven days working with Dorothy Soloman, a prominent Utah writer as part of a three week residency, sponsored by "Very Special Arts Utah" and the Davis County School District i : ;v One of the program objective was to integrate special education students with students in the mainstream. main-stream. The students wrote, shared their writings and discussed the -creative processes. The integrated experience proved to the students as well as their teachers, that all students stu-dents are creative and share some similar feelings, ideas and important impor-tant human qualities despite individual indivi-dual differences. As a foUow-up to the residency, . Mrs. Soloman will conduct two in-service in-service workshops for teachers and other individuals interested in learning learn-ing creative writing techniques for working with children of all ages . and abilities. These workshops will be held April 13 and 20. For infor- Writer Dorothy Soloman assists Centerville Jr. High stu-" stu-" dent Charlie Taylor with writing project. 7- mation contact Marsha Bradbury at , 299-2038. ' ; Part two of the residency will be held in April when the Utah Arts Council, Very Special Arts and the . Davis School District will sponsor visual artist Louise Fischman.who 'will spend eight days working Vittt the students to create paper mache monsters called "screamers." |