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English
Elective Course Offerings
Creative Writing 1, 2, and 3 Honors News Writing for
Grades 10-12
Course Number 184, 185 or 186 Digital Media
Full Year Course - 1 credit Grades 10-12
Prerequisite: English teacher recommendation Course Number 187
Estimated Fee: None Semester Course - 0.5 credit
Recommended For: College Bound Prerequisite: News Writing for Digital Media
Career: A, B, E, P Estimated Fee: None
Recommended For: College Bound/Technical
Creative writing is an elective English course Education
open to students in grades 10-12 who take Career: CORE
pleasure in experimenting with the written This semester course advances one’s writing
word. The course is designed to give creative and interviewing skills by producing
students an outlet for imaginative expression newsworthy stories to report on events
of ideas and thoughts. Students gain occurring in and out of the high
experience in creating short stories, poems, school. Students will need to demonstrate
and essays as well as partake of other class- strong verbal communication skills by
related creative experiences. The goal of each conducting interviews with primary and
student in class should be to meet all of the secondary sources. Additionally, students
required assignments of the class and submit will write journalistically in Associated Press
as much original work as possible for Style and utilize the writing process to
entry/publication in student writing contests compose polished stories that ultimately will
and the student publication Voices Magazine. be published on The Paw Print website. To
Evaluations are based upon collections within enhance stories, students will need to include
individual portfolios, workshop leadership, photos and/or infographics to further engage
and intrinsic motivation. All students in readership. Deadlines may be short, and high
creative writing are expected to serve on the expectations will be placed on the successful
staff of Voices, our school literacy/arts completion of finished stories that can be
magazine. Students taking the course for the read for a mass audience.
second or third time shall design written
projects evincing growth in prose/poetry as
well as maturity of style. Click the image
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