Creative Writing

Avon Lake City Schools 

Curriculum Framework

Creative Writing

Course Overview:

Creative Writing is a semester-long course where students learn about and experiment with different forms of creative expression. Creative writing lessons consist of teaching techniques in prose, poetry, drama and other forms of creative written expression while also allowing students to have the opportunity to develop artifacts in a variety of genres.

Textbook (Title and Publishing Company): 

None

Online/Supplemental Materials:

Model texts across a variety of genres

Assessments: 

Portfolio of Final Artifacts

Content/Topics/Learning Goals

Subject to Pacing and Schedules

1st Quarter - Prose/Storytelling

  • Prose

    • Teaching techniques in constructing settings, mood, dialogue, character development, passive v. active voice, showing v. telling, audience, points of view, etc.

    • Writer’s process through planning and journal writing

    • Create one of more of the following artifacts:

      • Short Story

      • Settings

      • Plays/Dramas

      • Illustrated Stories (childrens’ stories, comics, graphic chapters/novels, etc.)

      • Autobiography

      • Memoir

2nd Quarter - Poetry

  • Poetry

    • Discuss and teach poetic devices focusing on how to integrate into own craft

      • Alliteration

      • Repetition

      • Rhyming (All types)

      • Personification

      • Voice/Point of view

      • Imagery

      • Sensory Details

      • Metaphor/Simile

      • Onomatopoeia

    • Discuss and teach different forms of poetry

      • Parameters of different forms

      • When and why to break certain rules of the form

      • Purpose of form and how form can challenge writer creatively

    • Create one or more of the following artifacts:

      • Haikus

      • Tankas

      • Sonnets

      • Odes

      • Ballads

      • Pantoums

      • Acrostics

      • Sestinas

      • Clerihews

      • Limericks

      • Villanelles

Last Updated:

September, 27 2023