Integrating Creative Style into Writing
- Integrating Creative Style into Writing
Often teachers struggle with the ideas of how to energize their writing assignments and make their students want to write. It's a struggle, with the need to teach students to write well enough to pass standardized tests, to allow creative thought to direct a students work. The typical five paragraph essay is easy to grade and doesn't require much thought, however it gives a student a narrow approach to writing. Why not give students assignments that allow them their creative thought while still completing analytical assignments? Luella B. Cook once wrote in her article for "The English Journal", "We teach 'Verse Writing' and the 'Short Story' as though we acknowledged the fact that only form can be taught; the substance, we imply, is beyond our control." So how do we go about bringing life to our assignments as educators?
Some ideas that could be explored are:-Shadowing a poem by composing your own version of a poem using similar stylistic devices (such as iambic pentameter, metaphors, etc.)
-To show understanding of characters in a piece of literature the class is studying, have students write a letter from one character to another using that characters voice
-Write a rebuttle to a well-known authors work in the form of a personal letter explaining why their views are incorrect or inacurate for the time today.
[Cook, Luella B. Creative Writing in the Classroom: Its How, When, What, and What Not. The English Journal, Vol. 20, No. 3 (Mar., 1931), pp 195-202. National Council of Teachers of English. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/803652] ]
[Knoeller, Christian, Imaginative Response: Teaching Literature through Creative Writing. The English Journal, Vol. 92, No. 5, The Power of Imagination (May, 2003), pp. 42-48. National Council of Teachers of English. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/3650423] ]
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