Grade Level: 10-12
(BHS, FHS)
Prerequisite: Summer reading assignment.
A course designed for students who have a strong writing ability, but have not had extensive experience in the creative writing process. Writing skills will be developed through pre-writing, editing, re-writing, and critiquing. Students will write extensively and participate in candid, helpful critiques of their own work and that of their peers. Through frequent writing exercises, students will develop such writing resources as voice, imagery, characterization, dialogue, and narration. Students will also examine various styles of writing by reading well-known and not so well-known writers of various types of writing selections. Goals will be met through a variety of reading, writing, and speaking activities.
