Educere Course Overview and Description

Creative Writing
Course Id: 709

zzzThe VHS Collaborative (SB)

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

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PLC Toll-Free Number	866.4EDUCERE (866.433.8237)

* Prospective NCAA Division I and II student-athletes should visit the NCAA Eligibility Center website (www.eligibilitycenter.org) and seek the NCAA's acceptance of a particular Education Provider's virtual course prior to registration.

Course Description
The semester will begin with thought, reading, on-line discussion and writing about WHY people write, why bother to do imaginative writing when we can just turn on our TVs or access the Internet. Along the way, we'll try to decide: What is the fundamental impulse behind poems and stories? How are they constructed, and what techniques do particular writers use effectively? What kinds of work do we most admire and why? How can a poem or a piece of fiction speak to us across, years, genders, and cultures?

An upper-level creative writing course aimed at juniors and seniors. Students will write short stories, one act plays, and poetry. A very challenging English elective.

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 "meet" for individual on-line conferences with the instructor.

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

7. 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 will 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

Prerequisites
Comfort and proficiency with the English language. Experience writing poems and stories.

Course Materials
Virtual High School will have course materials, if any, shipped directly to students. While there is no additional cost for course materials, there is an additional charge for shipping. Students are required to return such course materials to course instructor upon completion of the course.

Courses and course detail are subject to change without notice.