Creative Learning for Creative Writing

Learning Creative Writing for Students

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Alicia Glasson

alicia.glasson97@gmail.com

For this blog, I have chosen to educate year ten English students on how to look at a creative text, to look for structure, organisation of text and the voice. There are much more components to writing a creative text but that can come later. It is useful to scaffold the learning in such a way that they don't chew off too much information in one bite, that they can learn the basic foundations of what makes up a narrative before moving into the more complex components such as foreshadowing, imagery, and points of view in depth.

Using the Curriculum strands, they will be able to learn how to analyse set texts that will give them a base knowledge of structure for any type of creative writing such as a narrative or poetry. They will be able to understand how structure, symbolism and character is used. As well as using other types of texts to learn this, such as documentaries and online media that will help them understand and not just pages in a book or lines on a page. The Curriculum strands are thus follows for teachers: (ACELA1567) (SCSA, 2014), (ACELT1774) (SCSA, 2014), (ACELT1642) (SCSA, 2014) and (ACELA1569) (SCSA, 2014) for text structure and organisation.

(ACELT1643) (SCSA, 2014), (ACELT1815) (SCSA, 2014) and (ACELA1571) (SCSA, 2014) for voice.

(ACELT1814) (SCSA, 2014), (ACELY1756) (SCSA, 2014), (ACELT1815) (SCSA, 2014) and (ACELT1644) (SCSA, 2014) for creating texts.

Learning how to write emotive and powerful texts as either persuasive essays or creative narratives can be learnt through creative voice, which is something that this blog shall be covering. Learning how to use voice to create tension, writing within different genres and being able to find the voice in other written texts is important when thinking about creating a personal creative project.

The task of actually creating a written product will be putting all the above information that students have learnt into a structured text. Being able to demonstrate their knowledge of how to group themes together and write them coherently. In different mediums such as written texts, videos and documentaries. Being able to demonstrate how they can argue a point subtly and expressively in case of persuasive writings and being able to draw from their own personal experiences to create vibrant worlds that can come alive on the page or the screen. Working in pairs will help students to understand the ideas they are learning better when drawing from their own experiences. Having discussions on the topics to gather information is essential for learning a topic such as this.

The outcome of this blog is for students to gather knowledge on how to create the base elements of a creative narrative before making their own with examples provided. After learning how to create a text, students will be asked to create their own, using the knowledge that has been scaffolded for them.

Creative narratives empower our world, there are millions of books around the world on all sorts of topics. Many are from famous best sellers such as Stephen King, J.K Rowling, James Patterson, and Dr. Seuss to name a few. Creative narratives are studied in classrooms all over the globe. Why not add to the pile with a book of their own? However instead of a full book which can take years to be ready for publishing, each student will create a short story or flash fiction narrative.

At the end, it is up to the classroom teacher and the school, that each piece be polished up and ready for printing in a collection of short stories which can be sold on Amazon.com or on the school and community websites through various self-publish websites, and perhaps any money made from the endeavour can be used to renovate the schools and communities. Not only will it demonstrate the abilities gained by the students, but it will show the community how doing exercises like this will help bring the community together.

Using websites such as Amazon Self Publishing to learn how they maybe able to publish their finished collection, as well as other publishing sites. Using different types of technology to type out their narrative, perhaps using Word, Scrivener, Write or Die or even an electronic or manual typewriter for the full experience of writing, as the experience is just as important as the final product. Also with a typewriter the result is instant, however, there are some learning involved and bound to be errors as there are things like no back space and once written that is it.

Manual Typewriter: Adler Contessa DeLuxe 1970/1971
Glasson, A. (2014). Adler Contessa DeLuxe (Manual Typewriter). Perth, Western Australia.

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