This quarter introduces description, narration, tone, diction, dialogue and general ingredients for a successful short-short story. The class will read and analyze several famous writers and apply various devices and techniques to their own writing. The unit's major piece will be a 500-2000-word short-short story.

Fourth quarter involves a continuation of craft-building skills in prose and poetry, with an emphasis on interpretation and an opportunity for more open-ended, free-lance writing. Each student may select from four or five options to complete Unit II's major writing.

UNIT I: Students will work on further developing the use of description and narration, with an emphasis on tone, diction sensory detail and dialogue. To that end, students will study chapter 2 in the text book and will write a short-short story.



UNIT II: Students will continue to refine their craft, including the writing of poetry. The major emphasis of this unit is poetry. Specific directions for activities will be given in class.


Materials necessary include:
-CREATIVE WRITING: 4 GENRES IN BRIEF
-a fully-charged Chrome Book
-online access to stories which need to be printed and brought to class)
-POST-ITs
- a flash drive
-a stenographer's note pad
-a section in a 3-ring binder
-access to books of poetry (online is acceptable)
- profile on turnitin.com.
 

Read chapter 2 in the CREATIVE WRITING text, analyze for meaning and devices, and be able to locate examples of specific, chapter terms used in each story. Also, you will have the opportunity to select other examples not assigned to use as reference in writing the short-short story. Required reading includes the following:
"The Baby"
"Crossing the River Zbrucz"

 

The same hold true for the second unit of spring semester: writing poetry. Refer to chapter 1.

 

VOCABULARY, LEVEL G units 6-14