Creative Writing
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Academic Elective for 11th & 12th graders
TUESDAYS
Zero Period 11:15 am - 12:45 pm
Office Hours by Appointment
taught by Timathea Workman
The universal language is story. It is the tool we use to understand both our humanity, and the result of our inhumanity. It is the cipher of complex emotion as well as the ultimate communicator. Everyone has a story: our lives are the stories we tell each other when we are awake; our dreams are the stories we tell ourselves when we are asleep. Stories are what bind us and reach across the illusion that we are in any way different from each other.
In this Creative Writing course on the art of storytelling, students will explore different genres, classic archetypal themes, and a variety of forms of story telling, including the short story, script for theater or screen, graphic novel, narrative ballet, vignette, and creative essay. Tools for discovering original ideas, crafting strong plots, creating convincing characters and lively dialogue, employing tension, building vivid fictional worlds and getting past writers block will also be covered. Imagination and creative expression will be emphasized, as well as the poetic nature of language and the steps of the writing and editing process. Students in the course will learn the methods of publication for literary works and apply these to the submission of their own work for publication in the school’s literary magazine, The Works.
Course Introduction
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"Story, as it turns out, was crucial to our evolution -- more so than opposable thumbs.
Opposable thumbs let us hang on; story told us what to hang on to."
― Lisa Cron