Descriptive and Creative Writing
Creative Writing
The status of creative writing is curious; Gunther Kress questioned purposefully as to why it is even necessary when most people will not be professional writers. Morso than that, the time needed to write can be consuming. However, in every curriculum the ability to both sense and maybe even control perception is a civilising experience.
Reconciling a writing identity with a teaching identity is an ongoing battle: here I share some of my writing (albeit much of it exists as fragments elsewhere). The act of writing creatively is a resolute action.
It is in the spirit of the fragments I currently write and in the need for students to pass descriptive writing tests, I have developed some programmes and approaches that will hopefully do both without undue compromise.
Chloe Moran’s Brianna: Example Creative Writing Project from the Summer of 2013
Brianna by Chloe Moran from gregorycanderson
AQA Paper 1 Question 5 Example Answer in Real Time (with errors!)
Following the principles of writing to described outlined in my lecture, this is an example of writing to describe based upon a picture stimulus of a chalked body outline on the floor. 1 Body is discovered 2 Chalk 3 Tape 4 Grass Growing 5 Body is of known...
http://www.sixwordstories.net/
An interesting, if umoderated, website for Hemmingwayesque short(est) stories can be found here: http://www.sixwordstories.net/ Worth a browse. Bear in mind this is unmoderated, so do not click through if unaware. This link has no affiliation with me, my website, or...
Descriptive and Creative Writing
Descriptive and Creative Writing
Three questions about the G&T Project
How should we run the G&T project? Are we writing a ghost story or a children’s story? Could we work in pairs or more? How can we get our stories to read by a real audience? - leave on a table in coffee shop, with - advertise in newspaper - use contacts in local...
A Hanging by Orwell
It was in Burma, a sodden morning of the rains. A sickly light, like yellow tinfoil, was slanting over the high walls into the jail yard. We were waiting outside the condemned cells, a row of sheds fronted with double bars, like small animal cages. Each cell measured...
Female or Male Writers?
I am a male English teacher. On my universe course of a 100 or so undergraduates, I was one of a dozen men. On my teacher training course, I was on of two (that made it.) And for my A-Levels, I was the only male (who took psychology, at least!) It seems the teaching...
Year 8 Film Review Paragraphs
One change to the KS4 syllabus is the requirement (or, rather, possibility) to write a film review. In the last few weeks of Christmas my students watched a film, and wrote a few paragraphs trying to emulate this style of writing. For me, the key thing was for them to...
Stories for classes
It's been a while since I've written any of the stories I've intend to write. I've spent time handling my host who, until now, have been sound. However, that's taken a little time to sort out. I have an idea to write parts of story for my class. As part of this, I am...
Examples of inference – KS4 Homework for 3rd October
It has surprised me this term how much the skill of inference (or 'gossiping about the characters in books' as I have sometimes termed it) is strong in those not commonly recognised as skilled in English. Conversely, it has surprised me, too, how those who are...
