Course Outline: Creative Writing

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Republic of the Philippines

Nuestra seŇ ora de las nieves, inc.


(Our Lady of the Snows High School)
Rizal street, Brgy. 1, Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental

Course outline
CREATIVE WRITING
S.Y. 2020-2021

Core Subject Description: The course introduces the learners to basic understanding of media and information as channels of communication and tools for the development of individuals and societies. It also
aims to develop students to be creative and critical thinkers as well as responsible users and competent producers of media and information.

quarter First quarter Second quarter

PRELIM A. Creative Writing


1. Imaginative writing vs. technical/academic/other forms of writing.
2. Sensory experience
3. Language
a. Imagery
b. Figures of speech
c. Diction
4. Sample works of well- known local and foreign writers
B. Reading and writing Poetry
1. Elements of the genre
a. Essential Elements
1. Theme
2. Tone
b. Elements of specific forms
1. Conventional forms
(ex. Short tagalog poems like tanaga and Diona: Haiku: sonnet)
-Rhyme and meter
-metaphor
2. Free-verse
- the line and line break
- enjambments
-metaphor
c. Other experimental
Texts

1. Typography
2. Genre crossing texts
(ex. Prose poem, performance poetry, etc.)
d. Tone
B.2. Techniques and literary devices
(Modeling from well-known local and foreign poets)
C. Reading and writing fictions
1. Elements of genre
a. Character
b. Point of view
b.1. first person POV
(Major, minor, or by-stander)
b.2. second person POV
b.3. third person POV
(Objective, limited omniscient, omniscient)

c. Plot
1. Linear
2. Modular/ episodic
3. Traditional parts; exposition, rising action, climax, falling actions, resolution- denouement
d. Settings and atmosphere
1. Time and place
2. Cultural, sociological, political, religious, etc. milieu
3. Sensibilities that lead to specific modes
e. Conflict
f. Irony
1. Verbal
2. Situational
3. Dramatic
g. Theme
1. Moral/lesson
2. Dramatic premise
3. Insight
C.2. Techniques and literary devices
a. mood/ tone
b. foreshadowing
c. symbolism and
motif
C.3. Modeling from well-known local and foreign short story writers in a range of modes

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