I. Lead-in Activities II. Guidance for Creative Writing III. Practice IV. Sample Creative Essays V. Assignment
I. Lead-in Activities
Activity 1: Choose one of the following questions, and talk about it with your partners. – Your boyfriend/girlfriend, who is very jealous, volunteers for a clone experiment. It succeeds, and now there are two of them, exactly the same. What happens? – As you are going to visit your dentist in a tall office building, the crowded elevator gets jammed between the floors. Several doctors' patients with serious problems are also there. The elevator may not be fixed quickly. What happens? – Three men wearing strange hats follow you and your girlfriend/boyfriend during a school trip. It turns out that your friend is an alien with amnesia, and can't remember a thing. What happens?
Unit 6 Creative Writing
Learning Objectives
Students who have engaged successfully with the learning activities proposed here are supposed to be able to: – Write creatively in the opening, developing and concluding part of an essay. – Show evidence of an ability to see the creativity in one’s own and other peoples’ ideas. – Master some writing techniques that can facilitate the development of a creative perspective. – Think creatively when composing an essay. – Find ways to be different from previous writing.
II. Guidance for Creative Writing
1. Definition of creative writing Creative writing is a term used to distinguish certain imaginative or different types of writing from technical writing. The lack of specificity of the term is partly intentional, designed to make the process of writing accessible to people of all ages and to ensure that ห้องสมุดไป่ตู้on-traditional, or traditionally lowstatus writing (i.e. writing by marginalized social groups, experimental writing, genre fiction) is not excluded from academic consideration or dismissed as trivial or insignificant. Creative writing includes but is not limited to:
Activity 2: Video Clip Watching. The Bear’s three picnics Unit 6\Unit 6 Creative Writing Three picnics of the bear.wmv Video Follow-up: 1) Teacher shows students the bear’s picnics for the first two days, and then students are required to discuss in pairs, for 3 minutes, about what will happen at the bear’s picnic on day three. T invites Ss to report what they have discussed and then shows them what really happened at the bear’s third day picnic. 2) Teacher shows students the bear’s contact with the aliens. 3) Write down the key words or main idea of the two video clips (Possible answer: unlucky, funny)