BASIC EDUCATION DEPARTMENT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
CREATIVE WRITING
Course Outline:
Introduction to Creative Writing
1. Imaginative writing vs. technical / academic / other forms of writing 2. Sensory experience
3. Language a. Imagery
SUBJECT DESCRIPTION
The course aims to develop practical and creative skills in reading and writing; introduce students to the fundamental techniques of writing fiction, poetry, and drama; and discuss the use of such techniques by well-known authors in a variety of genres. Each class will be devoted to the examination of techniques and to the workshop of students’ drafts toward the enrichment of their manuscripts. Students learn how to combine inspiration and revision, and to develop a sense of form.
b. Figures of speech c. Diction
4. Sample works of well-known local and foreign writers Reading and Writing Poetry
A. Elements of the genre 1. Essential elements 2. Theme
3. Tone
B. Elements for specific forms
1. Conventional forms (exemplar: short Tagalog poems like tanaga and diona; haiku; sonnet) a. rhyme and meter
b. metaphor 2. Free verse
a. the line and line break b. enjambments
c. metaphor
C. Other experimental texts 1. typography
2. genre-crossing texts (e.g. prose poem, performance poetry, etc.)
D. Techniques and literary devices (modelling from well-known local and foreign writers) Reading and Writing Fiction
A. Elements of the genre 1. Character
2. Point of View
a. 1st-person POV (major, minor, or bystander b. 2nd-person POV
c. 3rd-person POV (objective, limited omniscient, omniscient) 3. Plot
a. linear
b. modular/episodic
c. traditional parts: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution/denouement 4. Setting and atmosphere
a. time and place
b. cultural, sociological, political, religious, etc. milieu c. sensibilities that lead to specific modes
5. Conflict 6. Irony
a. verbal b. situational c. dramatic 7. Theme
a. moral/lesson b. dramatic premise c. insight
B. Techniques and literary devices 1. Mood/tone
2. Foreshadowing 3. Symbolism and motif
C. Modelling from well-known local and foreign short story writers in a range of modes Reading and Writing Drama (one-act)
A. Elements of the genre 1. Character
2. Setting 3. Plot 4. Dialogue
B. Techniques and literary devices 1. Intertextuality
2. Conceptualization of modality
C. Modelling from well-known local and foreign playwrights
The creative work in literary and /or sociopolitical context
