Advanced Writing Workshop
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Advanced Writing Workshop, Grades 11-12:
Advanced Writing Workshop, Grades 11-12:
Students appropriate for this course have received a teacher recommendation or successfully completed either #122-CreativeWriting: College Preparatory or #160-Writing Fiction: Honors.
Students appropriate for this course have received a teacher recommendation or successfully completed either #122-CreativeWriting: College Preparatory or #160-Writing Fiction: Honors.
Advanced Writing Workshop is an opportunity for writers to expand on the portfolio of work they developed in Creative Writing and/or Fiction Writing. Students will approach the creative process in the same manner, building on the importance of the word and the poetic image to convey meaning. There will, however, be greater opportunity to focus on fiction writing, multi-media works, and publishing in this course. Students will be given the time to write and their choice of products. Students will focus more on depth of revision and craft than on generation of a large number of new pieces. Students will develop, refine, and present a substantial portfolio by the end of the course. The culminating activity (final exam) for the course is a "Book Release Event" in which our newly published authors will perform a selection of their work in front of the class and discuss their writing process and style.
Advanced Writing Workshop is an opportunity for writers to expand on the portfolio of work they developed in Creative Writing and/or Fiction Writing. Students will approach the creative process in the same manner, building on the importance of the word and the poetic image to convey meaning. There will, however, be greater opportunity to focus on fiction writing, multi-media works, and publishing in this course. Students will be given the time to write and their choice of products. Students will focus more on depth of revision and craft than on generation of a large number of new pieces. Students will develop, refine, and present a substantial portfolio by the end of the course. The culminating activity (final exam) for the course is a "Book Release Event" in which our newly published authors will perform a selection of their work in front of the class and discuss their writing process and style.
Enduring Understandings:
Enduring Understandings:
Students are a part of the community of writers that is thriving in the real world.
Students are a part of the community of writers that is thriving in the real world.
Creative expression is something everyone is capable of accomplishing given the right circumstances.
Creative expression is something everyone is capable of accomplishing given the right circumstances.
Writing is a way to understand ourselves and the world.
Writing is a way to understand ourselves and the world.
We are all capable of way more than we thought just yesterday.
We are all capable of way more than we thought just yesterday.
Unit 1: Mining Your Older Work/Deep Revision
Unit 1: Mining Your Older Work/Deep Revision
Unit 2: Freewrites/Powerwrites
Unit 2: Freewrites/Powerwrites
Unit 3: Questions of Memory
Unit 3: Questions of Memory
Unit 4: Poetry of Place/Taking Inventory/THINGS
Unit 4: Poetry of Place/Taking Inventory/THINGS
Unit 5: Drafting
Unit 5: Drafting
Unit 6: Rooting out Sentimentality and Teen Angst
Unit 6: Rooting out Sentimentality and Teen Angst
Unit 7: The Workshop--Revision/Line Breaks/Peer Editing
Unit 7: The Workshop--Revision/Line Breaks/Peer Editing
Unit 8: How to Read Aloud
Unit 8: How to Read Aloud
Unit 9: Microfiction/Fiction Writing
Unit 9: Microfiction/Fiction Writing
Unit 10: Chasing Down The Rabbit Holes
Unit 10: Chasing Down The Rabbit Holes
Unit 11: Presentation/Performance
Unit 11: Presentation/Performance
Unit 12: Living Authors/Your place in the community of writers
Unit 12: Living Authors/Your place in the community of writers
Unit 13: Publishing your work
Unit 13: Publishing your work
*note: the order of these units is fluid and many units are repeated
*note: the order of these units is fluid and many units are repeated
Grading Weights:
Grading Weights:
Portfolio 70%
Participation/Presentation 30%