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Course Description

• Semester 1
• Semester 2

This course is designed for students who want to write creatively and are interested in exploring varying styles of poetry, short stories, and novel components. The organization of the class focuses on literary elements including genre and theme as well as the aesthetic impact of word choice. Read from a variety of classic and modern writers of poetry, short stories, and novels often of your own choosing. Write in each of the explored genres and develop an anthology that showcases your best work from the class through drafts and revisions. Share your favorite writings and readings building your comfort with partners, small groups, and the class as a whole. Students of this class have the option to participate in state and national writing competitions while developing their own writing style to remember, “You were born an original. Don’t die a copy.” ​​

Anthology

Throughout the course of the year, students will be reading and writing a wide variety of stories and poems as well as other genres of literature.  As we do so, students are recording their rough drafts and reactions to what we read in their notebook.  This notebook will become their anthology and is their final for both semesters.  Students began this work in the first week of the year, and will work on it weekly to create a product they are proud of and would like to keep as a representation of our work together.  Some students may elect to make their anthology into a website.