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Creative Writing
on preschool,
elementary,
secondary
and tertiary level
Renata Emilsson Pesková, Hlíðaskóli
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Cartoons 5th and 6th grades of Hlíðaskóli 2011/2012
http://issuu.com/renatape/docs/sm_sagnakeppni_grunnsk_la_2011_flettib_klingur/28
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Overview:
Short story
Short stories in the English classroom
Exchange about creative writing
(individual and group work) and
presenting the outcome.
Writing workshop
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Aims To discuss teaching creative writing in English classrooms
To argue that the short story / creative writing has it´s place in English classroom on preschool, elementary, secondary level, as well as in the adult life
To promote the discussion about creative writing among English teachers in elementary and secondary schools
To give teachers some simple tools to work with short stories
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I. Short story
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Write down your definition of “short story”
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What is a short story?
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An answer of a 5-year-old:
“What you tell people so they will be happy.” (p. 163)
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An answer of a 10-year-old:
“Telling about something and using
transition words, a good opening,
closing, details and elaboration” (p. 163)
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Kinds of short stories (p. 164)
Classifications (p. 165)
Progressive Plotline (p. 169)
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“One can´t believe impossible things”.
“I dare say you haven´t had much
practice,” said the Queen. “When I was
your age I always did it for half an hour a
day. Why sometimes I´ve believed as
many as six impossible things before
breakfast.”
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II. SHORT STORIES IN THE ENGLISH CLASSROOM
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Short stories in the lessons
A. READING STORIESB. WRITING STORIES
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“Nothing can help you “learn” how to write a good, short story better than reading good short stories.“
(http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Short-Story)
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A. Reading short stories
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Story-based approach to teaching English (Primary Essentials, British Council)
Patience A. Karlsson, Storytelling as a teaching strategy
Conference Story-line in August
Ritsmiðja fyrir kennara (STÍL) in August
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Work with a short story
preliminary activitiesDrawing, acting, brainstorming, alternative endings, guessing, analyzing, summing up, organizing, using graphs, creating booklets & posters, individual portfolio, mapping individual progress ..
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Work with a short story (cont.)
activities during reading
Vocabulary, guessing the end, drawing the place or the character …
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Work with a short story (cont.)
post-reading activities
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/britlit/hand-feeds-me
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B. WRITING SHORT STORIES
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How to write a short story
http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Short-Story
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Introduction into story writing:
Think sheet for story planning
Character fact sheet (drawing)
Drafting (mind map)
Progressive plotline
Story mountain
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Writing
Editing
Sharing
Continuous Assessment (p. 196 + 206)
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Short story competition 2010/11, 2011/12, 2012/13
Cartoons in 5-6th grades
3 age categories – will be 4
No topic – may be a wide topic
Online brochure http://tungumalatorg.is/enska/renata%c2%b4s-space/short-sto
ry-competition/
Tungumálatorg
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III. EXCHANGE ABOUT WRITING
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1. WRITTEN INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT
Think about writing in English classes.(handout)
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2. WRITTEN GROUP ASSIGNMENT
3-4 persons in a group
Elementary school teachers together
Secondary school teachers together
Keep your individual answers at hand
Sum up your groups answers to these
three questions:
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of creative writing in the English classroom?
Do/Can English teachers utilize creative writing in the classroom? How?
How do English teachers evaluate writing?
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PRESENTING THE FINDINGS
OF THE GROUPS
IV. Writing workshop
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PROJECT: Short story
Participants get a taste of how students learn to write short stories…
Read some beginnings of short stories. Write a beginning of a short story. Share everyone´s beginning of a short
story.
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Brainstorming
Idea
Draw a mind map
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Sketching
Setting
Character
Plot
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Write a Catchy First Paragraph
In today’s fast-moving world, the first sentence of your short story should catch your reader’s attention with the unusual, the unexpected, an action, or a conflict.
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Start writing
Choose the right words!
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Kristýn Ýr8. bekkur Hlíðaskóla
What if?
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