NOTE:
This material is projected to be available Fall 2004. Most
high school teachers, even English teachers, do not have a background
in Creative Writing. This course provides materials to make
up for that lack. It implements state and national goals and
standards through a semester of lessons in poetry, fiction,
and drama, including teacher presentation materials, student
handouts, methods of responding to student assignments, and
assessment. Teacher materials include models of each assignment
task, suggestions for methods of presentation, and a full explanation
of evaluation and assessment tools. Student writing skills will
improve by an incremental buildup of paced lessons. Sample poetry
skills include matters of form such as traditional vs. free
verse; figurative language such as metaphor, hyperbole, and
many more; sound devices like assonance, alliteration, and onomatopoeia.
In fiction students create sketches for setting, point of view,
character, and more culminating in the creation of a short story.
After intense
study of the functions of dialogue and stage directions, the
class members write a one act play. All semester work is revised,
edited, proofread, and collected into an anthology of each student’s
best work of the semester. This course will supply a new teacher
or one with a new teaching assignment or one who wants to inject
some creative assignments into his repertoire a wide variety
of selections and strong support. |
"Creative
writing classes often attract students with very different skill
levels making it difficult to adapt lessons to the needs of each
student. This text solves the problem. Every student can complete
the sequenced activities with a degree of success, while the more
skilled students are challenged to their potential. Her students
have won local, state and national awards for their writings which
began with the lessons in this text. Ms. Moran's creativity and
knowledge of this course make this book useful for first year
teachers as well as veterans; both will find provocative and imaginative
lessons ready to implement." --
Diane Maurer, English department head, L'Anse Creuse High School
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