ENGLISH 10 CREATIVE WRITING
COURSE OUTLINE
SEMESTER 1
WEEKS 1-7: THE SHORT STORY (reading & responding to short stories, exploring literary elements and modes of storytelling, writing & revising an original short story, critiquing a classmate's short story)
WEEK 8: THE URBAN LEGEND (reading & writing urban legends)
WEEKS 9-10: POETRY (reading & responding to poetry, exploring poetic devices, writing poetry)
WEEKS 11-13: THE MEMOIR (writing an autobiography, interviewing a classmate and writing a biography)
WEEKS 14-16: THE ONE-ACT PLAY (reading one-act plays, writing a group play, then an original one-act play)
WEEKS 17-19: MYTHS & LEGENDS (in groups, examining myths & legends from around the world, writing a creation myth, creating a mythological hero(ine) & trickster character and writing their stories