COURSE ID: VLACW

Creative Writing

Current 2024-25
Start Date: August 19, 2024
End Date: May 22, 2025
District: Goshen County School District #1
Grade Levels: 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
Course Type: Hathaway Scholarship Eligible
Provider: GCSD 1 Virtual Education

Creative Writing is designed to get students to pursue creative writing as a vocation or as a hobby. To that purpose, it exposes them to different genres and techniques of creative writing and the key elements (such as plot and characterization in fiction) in each genre. Great creative writing doesn’t come merely by reading about the craft one also needs ideas; a process for planning, drafting and revising; and the opportunity to experiment with different forms and genres. The lessons in this course familiarize students with the basic structure and elements of different types or genres of writing.