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Creative Writing

Fall 2024

(Satisfies Elective Graduation Requirements)

The Poetry of Yoga: In The Poetry Of Yoga we will immerse ourselves in the poetry of language and the poetry of movement, meditation, and breathwork. We will beautifully blend written poetry (of well known poets and our own) with poetic ways of movement and being. Counts for PE credit

Renaissance Writers Workshop 3: In this ADVANCED Writers Workshop, students will help create the direction and curriculum of this workshop, while learning tools for good writing and reading masterful writing. PREREQUISITE: Renaissance Writers Workshop (intermediate or advanced Level) or instructor permission required

Straw to Gold: In the fairy tale "Rumpelstiltskin" The Miller's daughter is imprisoned in a tower and commanded to spin straw into gold, and the enormity of this unjust decree overwhelmed the poor child.  If life indeed imitates art, you may have found yourself overwhelmed by expectations you were ill-prepared to meet through no fault of your own. This is sometimes the case in education, especially when it comes to writing.  This class is designed to help those who have not been properly prepared to meet the writing standards required in an arts-based high school.  With the help of the Brothers Grimm and one another the emerging writers in this class will embark on a journey from simple and compound sentences, to the use of transitions and active verbs, to the development of well-organized paragraphs and opinion pieces, before ending with the creation of imaginative fiction.  This is not a class for "good writers" who want to get better, but for emerging writers who aspire to become better.

Great Expectations: This marvelous novel by Charles Dickens follows the newly orphaned Pip, the convict he fears, the girl he loves and a singularly strange old woman on a journey that is a magical mix of mystery, humor and surprise. WARNING: Do not take this course if you are a humorless philistine shuddering at the mere thought of spending a semester amid a collection of literary nerds joyously celebrating their intrinsic nerdiness weekly by engaging in fun-filled discussions of this 500 page Victorian classic.