Creative Writing (Period 3)

Course Description

Creative Writing is an elective course for proficient writers who seek an overview of the basic aspects of creative writing techniques, emphasizing the use of the writing process. Producing individual weekly writing assignments to develop and enhance students’ writing skills is the major goal of the course. The most important aspect of the course is responsibility placed on students to improve their writing. The course is designed to provide students the opportunity to write in a variety of genres, including poetry, short story, memoir, autobiography, letters, and scripts. Students will write for the purposes of description, narration, exposition, and persuasion.

The aim of the class is for students to produce multiple kinds of creative writing with the emphasis on revision and editing skills. This emphasis will prove beneficial in other classes, for the key to good writing is good revision and editing. This emphasis supports the school goal of improving writing across the curriculum. Students will use computers and word processing software in class to write and save their work on their student home directories.