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Creative Writing: An Elective Course For High School Students, Megan Theresa Myers
Creative Writing: An Elective Course For High School Students, Megan Theresa Myers
Senior Honors Theses and Projects
This thesis project outlines a course in creative writing designed for students in grades 9-12. The course is an elective and is expected to be taken in addition to general English classes taken as a graduation requirement.
The course is designed as a genre study on an immersion principle, which requires that students focus their attention on the characteristics that make up various genres through both reading and writing in those genres. Students are introduced to the overall workshop format of the class and to the procedure of conferencing on and revising drafts through the basic study of the genres …