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GENRE:

Creative/Expressive

Learning Standard #2:

Learning Standard #4:

ESSENTIAL SKILLS & CONCEPTS

· Choose a creative or expressive form suited to the topic, audience, or purpose:

· Narrative form: short story, fable, myth, script

· Poetic form: free verse, sonnet, lyric, narrative, ode, sestina

· Letter form: personal letter, thank you letter, email

· Speech form: commemoration, dedication, encomium, eulogy

· Organize relevant ideas and information in preparation to begin writing

· Engage the reader by establishing a context, using an appropriate tone, conveying a mood, and revealing the author’s distinct voice based on an awareness of audience, topic, and purpose

· Choose an appropriate organizational structure or format based on the principal literary elements of the genre

· Incorporate and develop literary elements associated with the genre (e.g., characterization, setting, conflict, tone, theme)

· Employ literary techniques suited to the genre and to the writer’s purpose (e.g., diction, figurative language, symbolism, irony, etc.)

· Utilize vivid and precise language with an awareness of the denotative, connotative, figurative, and symbolic meaning of words

· Vary sentence structures and syntax for deliberate stylistic effects

· Employ transitional devices that are suited to the genre and the writer's topic, audience, and purpose

· Evaluate the creativity and/or expressiveness of the product using models and agreed upon criteria & use those judgments to further revise and improve the piece

· Demonstrate control over the conventions of standard English

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· Poetry (free verse, sonnet, lyric, narrative, ode, sestina)

· Narrative (1^st person, 3^rd person, interior monologue)

· Dramatic script

· Fable, myth, and folk tale

· Satire & parody

· Advertisement (critique/construct)

· Persona writing (eulogies, diary entries, letters, narratives)

· Speeches (commemoration, dedication, encomium, eulogy)

· Personal letters & correspondence

· Character sketch

· Historical persona

· Personal statement (college essay)