Creative Writing Calendar Leyland Creative Writing
Weekly workshop Procedures, Objectives, Activities and Assessments
Monday - students share their work with each other; peer revise and edit one poem. Remaining time is spent on perusing the starts chapbook and choosing a start as inspiration for a freewrite, which is due weekly.
Tuesday through Thursday - Students are introduced to a new form of writing each day; read and discuss samples; focus on specific literary terms used in the poetry, then model example with the class (20-25 mins). Students then write their own with the remaining time. The three poems and the weekly start are due in final draft each Friday.
Friday - students report directly to the Writing Lab to type up poetry; edit and proofread, using the tools available in Word. The final drafts are due by the end of the period.
Lesson plans – Second Semester
1/23: Course guidelines and expectations - proper classroom etiquette, understanding workshop environment; "Intro to Poetry"
1/24: Literary Terms Dictionary - activity: grouping terms for easier recall
1/25: Literary terms exercise #1 - multiple choice examples; exercise #2 - recognizing terms in poetry exercise #1 exercise #2
1/26: Literary terms review exercises #3, and #4 exercise #4
1/27: exercise 5
1/30: Lit Terms in Music
1/31: hand out chapbooks and do a freewrite or a love poem
2/1: Lit Terms quiz; My Lovely Valentine; The Blazon
2/2: revision process; Writing Lab - word lists
2/3: Writing Lab - type up your three poems
2/6: share/critique poems; write a freewrite
2/7: Imagery imagery examples
2/8: Haiku haiku exam
2/9: Synesthesia synesthesia
2/10: Writing Lab
2/13: share poems; freewrite
2/14: mirror poems
2/15: Carpe Diem - (Teasdale's "Barter," Herrick's "To the Virgin, To Make Much of Time") carpe diem examples
2/16: The Cento cento examples
2/17: Writing Lab - type up poems
2/21: Pantoum pantoum examples
2/22: The Extended Metaphor -
(Plath's "Mirror,"
2/24: NO FREEWRITE THIS WEEK!; short story elements example #1 exercise #2
Literary Focus: suspense and Irony
2/27: continue with story
2/28: work on story
2/29: complete story; writing lab
3/1: type up, revise, edit story
3/2: Writing Lab
3/5: share, browse and freewrite
3/6: Alliterative Verse - MCCann's "Dancing Dolphins,", "In Praise of P's" alliterative verse examples
3/7: Invented Word - (Carroll's Jabberwocky) invented word examples
3/8: Assonance poem assonance examples
3/9: wRITING lAB
3/12: freewrite; share poems
3/13:
The Allegory: Booth's "First
Lesson," Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar" allegory
examples
3/14: Create a poem that tells the reader who you are as a person; use specific details and as many literary devices as
you can. (
3/15: the villanelle villanelle examples
3/16: Writing Lab - type up poems
3/19: quarterly assessment
3/20: persona poem; DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE/DIALOGUE`
3/21: Parody parody examples
3/22: Elegy - Elegy examples
3/23: Writing Lab
3/26: share poems; freewrite
3/27: one word, many meanings
3/28: Satire
3/29: shadow reflection
3/30: Writing Lab
4/2: Writing Lab - illustrate a freewrite Poetry Art examples.
4/3: Writing Lab: type up and print out
4/4: mount and hang your poetry art
4/5: Poetry Walk
4/16: Writing Lab - twisted Fairy Tales
4/17: work oN fairy tale
4/18: work fairy tale
4/19: wRITING lAB - COMPLETE FAIRY TALE
4/20: PROFESSIONAL POETS Reading Day
4/23: share fairy tales; freewrite
4/24: tree poems ;
4/25: concrete poem
4/26: mirror poem
4/27: Student Reading Day
4/30-5/3: Poet In Residence
5/4: Writing Lab: type up poems
5/7: share poems; freewrite
5/8: ode examples
5/9: furniture poem5/10: sonnet
5/11: Writing Lab - type up poems
5/14: freewrite
5/15: furniture poems
5/16: aubade
5/17: ballad
5/18: Writing Lab - type up poems
5/21: freewrite
5/22: children's fable
5/23: continue with fable
5/24: complete fable
5/25: begin chapbook
5/29: chapbook
5/30: chapbook
5/31: chapbook
6/1: chapbook
6/4: turn in chapbook
6/5: