Creative Writing Fundamentals: The Writing Process

• Explain how specific works from different genres of writing may be linked thematically.
• Describe how thematically linked poems, stories, and plays can be used as models and inspirations for your own creative work.
• Implement a process for both receiving and providing constructive criticism for written works.

Creative Writing Techniques: Traditional Forms

• Identify traditional story structures of fables or parables.
• Create a fable or parable with traditional structures to teach a clear moral lesson.
• Identify the poetic structures of sonnets or poems that express part of their meaning through the way their words are structured on a page.
• Compose an original sonnet or a poem that expresses part of its meaning through the way its words are structured on a page.

Creative Writing Techniques: Personal and Realistic Writing

• Write a poem in free verse on the topics introduced earlier in the course.
• Write a realistic short story that engages reader interest by creating suspense, developing individual character motivation, and developing a vividly described world through which plotted action occurs.

Creative Writing Techniques: Writing a One Act Play

• Write a one-act play emphasizing scene construction and dramatic character interaction.
• Develop a setting that can be staged and is appropriate to the action in the script.
• Develop dialogue that reveals the inner psychology of characters.

Creative Writing Techniques: Reflections on Form, Theories, and Creativity

• Adapt one or more of the stories or poems written earlier in the course into a play.
• Explain how theories of creativity and quality influence a particular genre.