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Sophomore Writing Workshop (ACP/SCP/GEN) 121, 122, 123
Writing in the Creative Mode
TIME FRAME: 4-5 days
GRADE: 10
CONTACT:
MAP LEVEL: 4
23.3 LANGUAGE ARTS - COMMUNICATING WITH OTHERS
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23.4 LANGUAGE ARTS - ENGLISH LANG CONVENTIONS
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23.2 LANGUAGE ARTS - EXPLORE AND RESPOND TO LITER
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What makes creative writing effective?
What is Creative Writing?
Creative writing springs from the depths of your imagination and your experience. When you draw upon your thoughts, feelings, and life history to express your own personal, unique view of the world, you are writing creatively. Novels, short stories, poems, and plays are all forms of creative writing.
How Creative Writing Fits Into Your Life
Most of us enjoy the fruits of creative writers every day of our lives, for they are the people who bring us novels, movies, poems, plays, television comedies and dramas, cartoons, and popular songs. Reading or viewing or listening to these forms of creative writing is important to many of us simply as entertainment. Then again, some works of creative writing are so rich and well-made that they can help us learn about our lives; the best poems, stories, plays, and films deepen our understanding of what it means to be human. Since you have the tools to make a piece of creative writing, this is a terrific opportunity to record on paper some of your impressions and ideas -- the way you see the world.
(Prentice Hall. Writer' s Solution. Platinum Sourcebook, Annotated Teacher' s Edition. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1997,166-167)
Paper options may include:
* Witness Narrative
* Short Fiction
* Poetry portfolio
Paper Expectations for short fiction:
* MLA format
* Beginning, middle, end, and title
* Effective use of figurative language
* Effective use of one other literary device
* Effective incorporation of the elements of literature
* Effective organization, including transitions
* Relevant and realistic dialogue
* Acceptable level of fluency
* Grammatical correctness
Expectations for Poetry Portfolio:
* Effective incorporation of the elements of poetry
* Inclusion of a variety of poetry genres
* Effective organization and communication of ideas
* Effective use of three (minimum) poetic devices
* Acceptable level of fluency
* Grammatical correctness
When writing in the creative mode students will:
-- develop and demonstrate critical poetry reading strategies and skills
-- develop and utilize prewriting skills and strategies
-- develop and incorporate drafting skills
-- develop and implement editing skills and strategies (peer and self)
-- select and utilize effective organization
-- demonstrate an understanding of literary/poetic techniques
-- incorporate a variety of literary/poetic elements
-- incorporate examples of figurative language
-- produce a final draft that meets standards of acceptability in fluency and grammatical correctness
-- All students will be instructed on the steps of the writing process.
-- All students will be shown models of quality creative writing (fiction and poetry).
-- Each student will conference with his/her teacher to discuss the quality of his/her writing, and to determine the steps necessary for improvement.
-- All students will receive written feedback on the quality of their writing.
Assessment of student writing in the creative mode includes student-teacher conferencing to determine successful completion of editing and achievement of standards for acceptable quality of the final draft, and written feedback regarding the quality of the final draft.
Prentice Hall. Writer' s Solution. Platinum Sourcebook. New Jersey:
Prentice Hall, 1997.
Examples of Creative Writing Short Fiction may include:
-- "Just Another Tuesday" by Tricia Ellsworth
-- "Birthday Party" by Katherine Brush
-- "Under the Daisy's Mocking Spell" by Holly Singleton
A Resource for Poetry may include:
The Teachers & Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms. New York: Teachers & Writers Collaborative, 2002.
Examples of Creative Writing Poetry may include:
-- "It's time to leave" by William Burns (headline poem)
-- "Swan and Shadow" by John Hollander (shape poem)
-- "watching" by ee cummings (concrete poem)
-- "Free Union" by Andre Breton (list poem)
-- "Do Not Go Gentle into that Goodnight" by Dylan Thomas (villanelle)
-- "The .38" by Ted Joans (list poem)
-- "Traveling Through the Dark" by William Stafford (free verse)
-- "Bright Star" by John Keats (sonnet)
-- "The Starry Night" by Anne Sexton (free verse; art to literature)
-- "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost (blank verse)
-- "Washing the Body" by Robert Cording (free verse)
-- "Rondeau Redouble" Dorothy Parker (rondeau)
-- "In Flander's Field" by John McCrae (rondeau)
-- "A-B-C" by Robert Pinsky (alphabet poem)
-- "My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun" by William Shakespeare (sonnet)
All sample stories and poems can be found on the eschool website in the SWW folder at .