12Creative Nonfiction Quarter 2 – LAS 1:

Relationship of Elements and Ideas found in

the Various Forms and Types of Creative
Nonfiction

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Creative Non Fiction – Grade 12 Quarter 1 – LAS 1: Relationship of Elements and Ideas found
in the Various Forms and Types of Creative Nonfiction

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I. INTRODUCTORY CONCEPT

Quarter 2, LAS 1
Forms and Types of Creative Non fiction

Your entire life corresponds different genres of stories and shared personal

experiences, where you were able to learn and get lesson out of those several

circumstances you had and gained. In this lesson, you will be able to learn and

understand various forms and types of creative nonfiction. Stay motivated and eager to

learn as this module unveils the interesting world of real life journey of being an author.

II. LEARNING SKILLS FROM THE MELCs

Learning Competencies:

Explain the relationship of elements and ideas found in the various forms and types of creative

nonfictional texts through a close reading.

Learning Targets:

At the end of the lesson, students are expected to:

a. Understand and identify the various types and forms of creative nonfiction.

b. Differentiate the types of Creative Nonfiction.

c. Write a type of Creative nonfiction.

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 III. ACTIVITIES

Applying what you have learned from the previous Modules, especially with the
elements of creative nonfiction. If you could still remember the following elements:
a. Setting is the place where the story takes place.
b. Descriptive Imagery it is the way the writer paints the scene, or image, in
the mind of the reader.
c. Figurative Language is using language in a surprising way to describe a
literary moment.
d. Plot is one of the basic elements of every story: put simply, plot refers to
the actual events that take place within the bounds of your narrative.
e. Character frequently featured in the story, sometimes there are non-
human characters in a story such as animals or even the environment itself

Types of Creative Nonfiction

Autobiography is writing your own story which gives an elaborate information about
yourself.
Biography is a story of another person’s life which was written by someone else
Literary Journalism is a form of essay that is closest to newspaper and magazine
writing.
Reportage is a write up intended to give an account of the observed events or for
documentation purposes.
Personal Narratives is writing something interesting in your life that you considered
memorable.
Travelogue is a write up of a person’s journey, travel and trip containing personal
impressions about his/her journey that is commonly viewed on the internet.
Reflection essay describes an experience which requires to analyse the meaning of
such experience from present to past.
True narratives it is a story to remember based on the actual events that have
occurred

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 Blogs it is online discussion, comments, reflections and often in a form of hyperlinks
and videos.
Testimonio a subject who has been interviewed on tape by the writer tells his life in
the first person

Activity #1

Identify what types and forms of Creative Nonfiction each given examples.

Testimonio Reflection essay Travelogue Reportage

True narratives Blogs Literary Journalism Biography

Autobiography Personal Narratives Creative Non Web

Fiction

1. Born 1706 in Boston, Benjamin Franklin was the 15th of his father's 17 children.

He went to school as a child with the intent of becoming a minister, as his father,

Josiah, intended.

2. The student I met helped me unload my luggage as the train reached Tilak Nagar

Station through the dramatic pulse of moving bodies in the 5-10 seconds one has

to get off the train already filled with people. He shook my hand strongly and

glared into my eyes with marks of genuine care and friendship, despite us

meeting for only 20 minutes. And naturally, I was swayed emotionally to be as

sympathetic towards him, and signalled our momentary companionship to him.

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3. It was my second day on the job. I was sitting in my seemingly gilded

cubicle, overlooking Manhattan, and pinching my right arm to make sure it

was real. I landed an internship at Condé Nast Traveler. Every aspiring writer

I’ve ever known secretly dreamt of an Anthony Bourdain lifestyle. Travel the

world and write about its most colorful pockets.

4. For seven years before the murder, Dee Dee and Gypsy Rose Blancharde lived

in a small pink bungalow on West Volunteer Way in Springfield, Missouri. Their

neighbors liked them. “'Sweet' is the word I’d use,” a former friend of Dee Dee’s

told me not too long ago. Once you met them, people said, they were

impossible to forget.

5. Should you go with a free platform like WordPress or a paid platform like

Squarespace? That depends on how much control you want over your

website and how big you want to go:

6. This photo is of Becky and her Dad in her wedding car. I love a couple of things

about this photo. One, it was a beautiful moment. I love eye contact as it shows

connection between people. And it’s those connections that make wedding

photography for me. As a father myself I can’t imagine how it must feel looking

at your daughter on her wedding day.

7. You will look at your personal engagement with your community, culture,

family, education, and other direct spaces you have occupied. You may pick an

event from your past, either positive or negative, dramatize it, and then explore

it with the purpose of coming to some kind of statement, or insight, about how

life works, according to you.

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 8. As I sit down to reflect on my time in the English major at Berry, I’m roughly

three months removed from my last English class. At the moment, I’m in the

middle of a semester-long student teaching experience at Armuchee High

School, finishing out my Secondary Education minor and preparing for the “real

world” of teaching that awaits me after May 10th.

9. Hi, I’m Khayelen Isabel Hontario. I lived in New Jersey for 3 years and currently

living in New York. I am personal secretary of one of the biggest company in

US.

10. "The barber was cutting our hair, and our eyes were closed—as they are so

likely to be... Deep in a world of our own, we heard, from far away, a voice

saying goodbye. It was a customer of the shop, leaving. 'Goodbye,' he said to

the barbers. 'Goodbye,' echoed the barbers. And without ever returning to

consciousness, or opening our eyes, or thinking, we joined in. 'Goodbye,' we

said, before we could catch ourselves."—E.B. White "Sadness of Parting."

Activity # 2

Identify the elements of Creative Nonfiction using this literary piece. Write it on a

piece of paper in a sentence format.

Example:

Setting: The greenhouse of his grandmother where he took his first family picture.

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Born 1706 in Boston, Benjamin Franklin was the 15th of his father's 17 children. He
went to school as a child with the intent of becoming a minister, as his father, Josiah,
intended. However, that idea was dropped after Franklin showed a keen interest in
reading and writing. He was apprenticed to his brother, James at a young age, but after
fighting with his brother he quit the job and moved to Philadelphia, where he worked for
a man named Samuel Keimer. After befriending some prominent political figures,
including the royal Governor, Franklin left for England, where he spent 18 months
working for a printer with his friend James Ralph, with whom he later became
estranged. Shortly after returning to America in 1726, Franklin formed a debating club
called the Junto. Two years later, he took over The Pennsylvania Gazette from Keimer
and turned it into a successful publication with tools from London. In 1730, Franklin wed
his old sweetheart, Deborah Read, with whom he had two children. The first, William
Franklin, was born approximately one year later; he is the man to whom
the Autobiography is addressed in Part One.
Throughout the 1730s, Franklin held some minor positions doing printing work for the
government. In that time, he began Poor Richard's Almanac and became postmaster of
Philadelphia. Towards the end of the decade, he invented the Franklin stove. In the
1740s, Franklin worked on several projects, including the fire brigade, the police force,
the University of Pennsylvania, the street sweeping service and some other smaller
public works projects. He retired from the printing business in 1748 and began to
conduct scientific experiments in lightning. In 1753, he was awarded honorary degrees
from Harvard and Yale, and he became Postmaster General of America. The following
year, when war broke out between England and France (the French and Indian War
Franklin began to draft proposals outlining means by which funds could be raised for
colonial defense. He succeeded in many of his proposals, and he personally played a
large part in organizing the war effort. The Autobiography, however, breaks off in 1757; it
is left unfinished.
The Autobiography itself was written in three different times: 1771 in England, 1783-83
in France, and 1788 in America. If Franklin meant to complete it, he died before he got
the chance.

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IV. EVALUATION
Choose only one type of Creative Nonfiction and follow the rubrics. Write this on
a piece of paper, with minimum of 300 words.
Rate your creative nonfiction using the following rubric.
10 7 5
Grammar The writer has an The writer has The writer has
excellent minimal errors poor sentences
vocabulary and when it comes to and word usage.
correct grammar.
sentences.
Organization The writer was The writer The writer was
able to give the committed not able to
gist of his writing minimal errors connect the ideas
and it was well upon his writing of his work.
understood. and connecting
the sentences.
Mechanics The punctuation There were Poor use of
marks were used minimal errors punctuation
appropriately with the marks, spelling
including punctuation and capitalization.
capitalization and marks, spelling
spelling. and capitalization.

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 VI. ANSWER KEY

Activity # 1

1. Biography

2. Travelogue

3. Personal Narratives

4. Literary Journalism

5. Blogs

6. Reportage

7. Testimonio

8. Reflection Essay

9. Autobiography

10. True Narratives

Activity # 2

Answers may vary.

Evaluation

Answers may vary.

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