Educere Course Overview and Description

MS Creative Writing
Course Id: 1597

zzzThe VHS Collaborative (SB)

Course Overview
Institution	zzzThe VHS Collaborative (SB)
Subject	Language Arts Electives
Education Level	Middle School
Institution Website	click here

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Course Description
Stories exist all around us. They help us share our hopes and our fears. They show our beliefs in how things are around us, and our dreams for how they could be. In this course, we act as authors and read the work of other authors, and we walk in the footsteps of writers by writing. Each week, we will work with one grammar skill, experience one reading selection and discuss it with peers, and work on one piece of our own writing. This is a learn-by-doing course, so be prepared to take chances, and stretch your writing muscles.

Course Objectives:

1. To try numerous approaches to writing, and to generate abundant written material

2. To study techniques used in published work and to develop methods of shaping and crafting our own.

3. To learn to REVISE, re-see our work as we learn more about what makes poems and stories good.

4. To get and give useful feedback on our own writing and on classmates' writing in an on-line forum

5. To search the Web for information about and interviews with writers.

6. To learn more about the elusive aspects of writing such as inspiration, motivation, habits, getting ideas, and ways of plunging in.

Over the semester, students develop and polish a portfolio of fiction, poetry, and analyses of published work. The final days of the semester will include reading about and discussion of the market for imaginative writing, approaches to getting published, and jobs for which writing skill is useful.

Delivery Method

Internet

Real-Time Web-Based Teacher Access

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