Intro To Creative Writing
PREREQUISITES: Grades 10 - 12
LENGTH: 1 Trimester
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course is designed as an introduction to creative writing through the creation of original poems, fiction, and nonfiction. Students will actively participate in the following class activities:
LENGTH: 1 Trimester
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course is designed as an introduction to creative writing through the creation of original poems, fiction, and nonfiction. Students will actively participate in the following class activities:
- Keeping a daily writing journal
- Critiquing each other’s work
- Completing various exercises designed to stimulate the imagination
- Sharing their writings weekly in a community forum (critique groups, public readings, class publications, etc.)
- Honing their writing skills (drafting, editing, revising, publishing)
- Forming a community of writers through collaboration
- Learning to be compassionate and critically engaged readers for one another’s work
- Experiencing encouragement in the development of a personal voice
- Practicing writing like a reader
- Reading like a writer