100 10041 120 Sophomore Writing Workshop (ACP/SCP/GEN) 121, 122, 123 130 Writing in the Creative Mode 140 4-5 days 150 10 160 170 4 180 210 23.3 Language Arts - Communicating with Others 211 1.9.2 212 1.9.4 213 2.9.1 214 2.9.2 215 2.9.3 216 220 23.4 Language Arts - English Lang Conventions 221 1.9.2 222 2.9.1 223 2.9.2 224 3.9.1 225 3.9.2 226 3.9.3 230 23.2 Language Arts - Explore and Respond to Liter 231 1.9.1 232 233 234 235 236 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 300 300 What makes creative writing effective? 400 400 What is Creative Writing? 400 400 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. 400 400 How Creative Writing Fits Into Your Life 400 400 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. 400 400 (Prentice Hall. Writer' s Solution. Platinum Sourcebook, Annotated Teacher' s Edition. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1997,166-167) 400 400 Paper options may include: 400 * Witness Narrative 400 * Short Fiction 400 * Poetry portfolio 400 400 Paper Expectations for short fiction: 400 * MLA format 400 * Beginning, middle, end, and title 400 * Effective use of figurative language 400 * Effective use of one other literary device 400 * Effective incorporation of the elements of literature 400 * Effective organization, including transitions 400 * Relevant and realistic dialogue 400 * Acceptable level of fluency 400 * Grammatical correctness 400 400 Expectations for Poetry Portfolio: 400 * Effective incorporation of the elements of poetry 400 * Inclusion of a variety of poetry genres 400 * Effective organization and communication of ideas 400 * Effective use of three (minimum) poetic devices 400 * Acceptable level of fluency 400 * Grammatical correctness 400 500 500 When writing in the creative mode students will: 500 500 -- develop and demonstrate critical poetry reading strategies and skills 500 -- develop and utilize prewriting skills and strategies 500 -- develop and incorporate drafting skills 500 -- develop and implement editing skills and strategies (peer and self) 500 -- select and utilize effective organization 500 -- demonstrate an understanding of literary/poetic techniques 500 -- incorporate a variety of literary/poetic elements 500 -- incorporate examples of figurative language 500 -- produce a final draft that meets standards of acceptability in fluency and grammatical correctness 600 600 -- All students will be instructed on the steps of the writing process. 600 -- All students will be shown models of quality creative writing (fiction and poetry). 600 -- Each student will conference with his/her teacher to discuss the quality of his/her writing, and to determine the steps necessary for improvement. 600 -- All students will receive written feedback on the quality of their writing. 700 700 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. 820 820 Prentice Hall. Writer' s Solution. Platinum Sourcebook. New Jersey: 820 Prentice Hall, 1997. 820 820 Examples of Creative Writing Short Fiction may include: 820 -- "Just Another Tuesday" by Tricia Ellsworth 820 -- "Birthday Party" by Katherine Brush 820 -- "Under the Daisy's Mocking Spell" by Holly Singleton 820 820 820 A Resource for Poetry may include: 820 The Teachers & Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms. New York: Teachers & Writers Collaborative, 2002. 820 820 Examples of Creative Writing Poetry may include: 820 -- "It's time to leave" by William Burns (headline poem) 820 -- "Swan and Shadow" by John Hollander (shape poem) 820 -- "watching" by ee cummings (concrete poem) 820 -- "Free Union" by Andre Breton (list poem) 820 -- "Do Not Go Gentle into that Goodnight" by Dylan Thomas (villanelle) 820 -- "The .38" by Ted Joans (list poem) 820 -- "Traveling Through the Dark" by William Stafford (free verse) 820 -- "Bright Star" by John Keats (sonnet) 820 -- "The Starry Night" by Anne Sexton (free verse; art to literature) 820 -- "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost (blank verse) 820 -- "Washing the Body" by Robert Cording (free verse) 820 -- "Rondeau Redouble" Dorothy Parker (rondeau) 820 -- "In Flander's Field" by John McCrae (rondeau) 820 -- "A-B-C" by Robert Pinsky (alphabet poem) 820 -- "My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun" by William Shakespeare (sonnet) 820 820 820 All sample stories and poems can be found on the eschool website in the SWW folder at .