Professional Documents
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Department of Education
Region 02
Schools Division of Isabela
STO. DOMINGO - SAN ISIDRO INTEGRATED SCHOOL
Luna District
Name: Kevin L. Dela Calzada
Grade 7 Creative Writing
I. Objectives:
At the end of the discussion, students are able to:
a. Define genre
b. Identify the elements of genre through collaborative work
c. Differentiate the different kinds of genre
d. Create a literary piece applying one of the types of genre
II. Subject Matter: Imaginative Writing
Materials: PowerPoint presentation
Reference: Website: Retrieved from https://milnepublishing.geneseo.edu/exploring-movie-
construction-and-production/chapter/2-what-is-genre-and-how-is-it-determined/
Strategies: Differentiated group activities and class discussion
Skills: Group collaboration
III. Procedure
A. ESTABLISHING PURPOSE
The teacher will state the objectives of the lesson.
B. CONTENT OF DISCUSSION
Form:
* Short stories
* Poems
* Letters to self (future/past)
* Letters to others
* Scripts
* Diary entries
* Interior monolgues
* Prologues/Epilogues
* Speeches
* Autobiography, etc.
Can you:
* Identify the language you’ve used and how it is appropriate for the audience and form?
* Identify the form and why it supports your purpose?
* Express what your overall message is to your audience (explain contention)?
* Discuss how your piece shows an awareness of purpose and audience?
* Link your piece to the text?
* Link your piece to identity and belonging?
* Show that you’ve thought of different perspectives (or interpretations, positive and negative
elements, underlying reasons, etc) of the text, context or your written
piece’s topic?
* Show you have thought about the complexities of the issue/topics in the text and how this is
reflected in your piece?
* Discuss how you’ve used ideas/arguments from the context and set text in your writing?
* Show the relation of your piece to the prompt?
* Show that you’ve used a varied but appropriate vocabulary?
Writing from personal experience can cover all sorts of types of writing: travel writing, stories,
inspirational speeches and more.
What is autobiography?
Traditionally, an autobiography tells the story of the writer’s life. But the task will ask you to take a
small part of your life and make it into a whole story. Don’t fall into the trap of telling the story of your
life with dates and places in order – autobiography is about making something personal into an
interesting read which captivates the reader, rather than getting all the boring details in.
Getting ideas
Try one of the following exercises to get some ideas for writing about yourself. Make a mind map for
each one (a spider diagram where you can make further links to the original ideas):
What five things would you save if your house was on fire? Why those things? What do they say about
you and why are they special to you? Now imagine you can only save one of them – which one do you
choose and why?
What’s your earliest memory? Focus on the details – what can you see? What can you hear? How do
you feel? How old were you – why did this memory stick
around? What do you think it says about you?
If you were a song, which song would you be and why? Do the lyrics have special meaning for you or
does the song remind you of a specific time or person? Or does the music reflect your personality - is it
fun and upbeat, quiet and meaningful or dark and moody?
If your friends had to list ten words to summarise you, what would they be? Why does each word
represent you? Do you agree with all of them? It may be that
other people see you differently to how you see yourself – that’s something important to bring out in
writing from personal experience.
Any of these things might be useful to add detail and colour to your particular task: adding rich details
like these can help to make a more interesting piece of writing, and keep you away from simply listing
facts.
Your voice
The ‘voice’ which you write in is an important part of creative writing. ‘Voice’ is the tone and style in
which you write – the personality behind the writing. In writing from personal experience knowing
what your voice should be is easy – it’s you! To get the most out of it, exaggerate your personality.
When we write about our own lives we naturally use the first person, using the words like ‘me’,
‘myself’ and ‘I.’
Many of the tasks will enable you to speak straight to the reader. This is called direct address. You can
create a much more intimate atmosphere, or act as if the reader is your friend. This can make writing
much more effective. You can use the second person pronoun (‘you’) to show that you’re talking
directly to your audience. But the tone of your writing will do more of the work.
Look at the task closely – how formal do you need to be? A lot of autobiographical writing is informal,
letting you make jokes and be yourself. Some tasks will require you to be more formal though – be
careful to check which way you should write.