Creative Writing
In this elective writing class, students will write every day, and they will explore different writing techniques and styles. Writing skills will be developed through pre-writing, editing, re-writing, and critiquing. Students will examine various styles of writing by reading well-known and not so well known writers from all genres...personal essay, creative non-fiction, fiction, poetry, drama, etc. Not only will students look at a variety of writing styles, but film and art will also be incorporated into this course of study. Students must be willing to share their work; that is, students must be willing to read aloud and share their ideas with the group. Students will be asked to critique their own work and the work of others in a positive and gentle manner. Students will research authors to better understand a writer’s writing process and secrets to their success. As a community, we will learn a great deal about each other by writing across various modes and describing how our writing works and what it does through various methods centering on close examination of language.
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