High School Creative Writing
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Teacher: Adam C'DeBaca Email: acdebaca@stanbridgeacademy.org Grading
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Description: Using a classical humanist framework for analyzing and writing alongside California State Standards for college preparedness, students will read, analyze and discuss a diverse set of classic and modern literature and poetry to aid in constructive, self-directed creative writing efforts. Writing and thinking creatively, rather than critically, will be emphasized strongly, using frameworks for employing effective and original creative narration and storytelling. Students will develop their own personal creative project with a written and expressed goal for completion under the guidance of the instructor. Material will be presented in a variety of traditional and digital formats.
Creative Writing, Selected Class Literature
Homework
Homework will be posted on Google Classroom.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
- A Confederacy Of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
- The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
- Through the Woods by Emily Carroll
- Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Vintage Classics)
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- Weird Woods: Tales from the Haunted Forests of Britain (collection of early 20th-century stories) - John Miller, ed.
- The World’s Great Short Stories (Dover Thrift Edition) - James Daley, ed.
- Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
- Additional short stories, poems and works from Ernest Hemingway, W.B. Yeats, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Clark Ashton Smith, Chinua Achebe, Flannery O’Connor, Robert E. Howard, Derek Walcott, Virginia Woolf, Arthur Machen, Emily Dickinson, Philip K. Dick, Wallace Stevens, etc.
Homework
Homework will be posted on Google Classroom.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Relate and develop elements of a story or drama (setting, characterization, archetype, etc.) and independently produce creative fiction or nonfiction that is concise and coherent and in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
- Understand and identify multiple literary devices and fictional story tropes in a variety of media
- Complete short as well as longer-term creative projects based on interest, ability and students’ own written and expressed goals.
- Write routinely over an extended period of time with appropriate tasks that allow for creative research, review and revision.
- Analyze an author’s content and style choices with regards to overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic value.
- Develop vocabulary appropriate to college readiness standards through creative writing and composition.
