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Creative Writing Curriculum
Creative Writing Syllabus
Unit 1: The Art of Character and Concrete Detail
Character Boards
D&D Student Version
Be Your Own Hype Man
Childlike
Desperate Measures: A Dating Profile
Dear Future Roommate
The Teacher’s Bathroom
One-of-Fifty
A Food’s Person
PDA: Too Much Tongue, Nowhere to Run
That’s Cliché!
Things They Carry
Secret Diaries of 'X'
Go To Hell
Am I the A*hole?
It’s Not That Bad
A Conversation Poem
What Are They Thinking?
Unit 2: Poetry, Precision, and the Weight of Words
Contrasting Poems
Persona Poems
Epistolary Poem
Oppositional Poems
The Worst Poem Ever Written (On Purpose!)
Haiku
Erasure Poetry
Found Poem
Nursery Rhymes
Framing the Moment
The Ghazal
Beyond the First Letters
The Golden Shovel
Concrete Poetry
Unit 3: The Architecture of Story—Narrative Beginnings, Middles, and Ends
Crossing and Returning
Becoming Mr. Rogers
A Sizzling Day Dream
Misleading Expectations
A Fable
Along in the Silence
Guilty as Fiction (Part 1 of 2)
The Last Line
Hero’s Journey Letters
I’m Not A Furry!
Unit 4: Infusing the Self—Blurring Art and Identity
Hear Me Out…
Class 101
Never Abbreviate ‘Assignment’
An Apology (or Lack of One)
Tiering Up: Tier List Anything
How did we get here?
A Letter from the Underground
Where I'm From
Do This, Do That
A Christmas Story
A Story in Five Objects
Parallel Universe Me
What I Leave Behind
A Letter to the Person Who Will Inhabit My Body
The Last Day of the World
Myths About Me
The Court of the Invisible King
Unit 5: Poetry Revisited—Form, Flow, and Challenge
Building a House
The Pantoum
Time For A Sonnet
Rapping Paper
The First Snowfall
Journey into the Grotesque
The Sestina
Falling Apart
Poem Backwards is Meop, and That’s Kind of Neat
Seasonal Oppression
Seeds to Sow
Call a Priest!
A Yellow Smell
It's Just a Translation, Right?
Oh No... Is This Interpretive Dance?
Unit 6: Drama, Screenwriting, and Visualized Narratives
Writing Dialogue
A Date Gone Wrong
Love Is an Open Door?
Guilty as Fiction (Part 2 of 2)
Not-So-Super-Guy
Moody, Broody, Detective Scooby
What Topia? Dystopia.
Writing a Bluey Episode
Louder Than Words
Worst. Casting. Ever.
A TED Talk to End TED Talks
I'd Buy That!
ChronoScript
Behind the Curtain
Unit 7: Experimental Writing—Dream Logic, New Languages, and Breaking the R
The Story That Won’t End (or Won’t Begin)
The Worst Short Story Ever Written (On Purpose!)
This Sentence Knows It Will End
Yes, No, Maybe, So
The Story That Eats Itself
Synesthesia Script
You? No You. No, You!
What are you Tolkien about?
Dreamlike
Play Time
Day Jah Vu
Unit 8: Open Capstone and Publication—A Final Creative Offering
English 9 Ethnic Studies
Overarching Unit Guide
Grade-Level Agreements and Assessments
English 9 Syllabus
Jane Schaffer Resources
Unit 1: Identity and Community Building
Unit 2: Intersectionality
In Their Shoes
Unit 3: Oppression, Expression, and Stereotyping
Unit 4: Resilience and Resistance
Night by Wiesel
Unit 5: Cultural Ownership and Storytelling
Unit 6: Book Groups
ELD
ELD Syllabus
Listening Practice
SAP
Practice Audio and Videos
Writing Practice
Write About an Experience
Justify an Opinion
Write about Academic Information
Speaking Practice
Describe a Picture
Graphs
STEM Practice (Cause and Effect)
Informational Practice (with Listening Component)
Reading Practice
Academic Writing Practice
Narrative Practice
Informational Practice
Language Functions
Sequence
Cause and Effect
Compare and Contrast
Problem, Solution
Definition and Classification
Conclusions and Connections
ELPAC Prep
Honors 12 & Concurrent Enrollment
Course Outline
Course Writing Expectations
E12H and ENGL C1001 Syllabus
Academic Integrity
Unit 1: Reflecting on Roots
Unit 2: Suffering's Meaning
Unit 3: Brief Stories, Expansive Psyches
Unit 4: Witches, Kings, and Deconstruction Things
Unit 5: Challengsperimental Langscape
Unit 6: Shadows, Ghosts, and Scars
Unit 7: Weapons of Mass Persuasion
Unit 8: Verbal Royale (with Cheese)
Unit 9: Couples Therapy for Debaters
Unit 10: Echoes from the Albatross
The Dark and the Sublime
Lenses and Critical Approaches
Psychology
Intro to Critical Theory: Psychology, the Mind, and Consciousness
Freud and Consciousness
Alfred Adler and the Self Ideal
Lacan
Carl Jung
B. F. Skinner
Viktor Frankl
Linguistics
Linguistic Structuralism
Semiotics
Derrida and Deconstruction
Ferdinand de Saussure
Charles Sanders Peirce
Noam Chomsky
Leonard Bloomfield
Roman Jakobson
Edward Sapir
Roland Barthes
Umberto Eco
Other
Women's Perspective in Literature
Black and African American Perspectives
Narrative Structuralism
Post-colonialism
"New" Criticism
Western Philosophy
Plato and Socrates
Eastern Philosophy
Ram Dass
Literary Figures
Literary Works
1984
Art (Visual)
Belovéd
Bless Me, Ultima
The Book Thief
Catcher in the Rye
Crime and Punishment
Emma
Flight
Frankenstein
Hamlet
Heart of Darkness
Holocaust Literature
Horror and The Uncanny
The Idiot
Indian Horse
The Inferno
Lolita
Macbeth
Misc Poetry
Night
Notes from a Dead House
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Paradise Lost
Pride and Prejudice
Romeo and Juliet
The Stranger
Writing Support
Mind Maps
Free Writing
Cubing
How, Why, So: A Guide to Interpretive Analysis
Strong, Academic Titles
Literary Elements
Theme (Ideas)
Character
Setting and Context
Symbolism
Point of View
Freytag's Pyramid (Traditional Structure)
Campbell's Monomyth (Hero's Journey)
James Joyce
Dubliners
Dubliners: Childhood
Dubliners: Adolescence
Dubliners: Maturity
Dubliners: Public Life
Dubliners: The Dead
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Ulysses
The Telemachaid
Telemachus
Nestor
Proteus
The Odyssey
Calypso
Lotus Eaters
Hades
Aeolus
Lestrygonians
Scylla and Charybdis
The Wandering Rocks
Sirens
Cyclops
Nausicaa
Oxen of the Sun
Circe
The Nostos
Eumaeus
Ithaca
Penelope
Finnegans Wake
V.elka: A Graphic Novel
Kinch's Gate: A Buddhist Journal
The Four Noble Truths, My View
Favorite Meditation Techniques
Soto Zen and Plum Village Buddhist Practice
Meditation and Malas
Fasting and Dieting for Spirituality
Historical Sense and a Search for a Teacher
Confessions of a Bad Buddhist
What is Buddhism's Purpose?
The Dharma
There is No Tree
Many Words Make Much Good Meaning Problems
On the Afterlife
No Goals: The Goal
Literature is the Dharma
There is No Such Thing as Teaching
Personal Buddhist Reading List
Creative
An Unfriendly Chivo
A Door
Shorter Works (Haikus, Tankas, and More)
A Gilded Life: Reflections after 20 Days in Mariupol
Rants and Editorials
The Great Grading Hoax: Why English and Numbers Don't Mix
Family Recipes
Brisket
Honey Lime Chicken
Smoked Brats
Beef Chuck Short Ribs
Smoked Pork Belly Burnt Ends
Chile Colorado
Chile Verde
Borscht (Ukrainian)
Olivier Salad (Салат Оливье)
Kotleti
Pea Soup
Ukrainian Piroshki with Cabbage
Maple Syrup Scones
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
Crêpes
Mushroom Soup
Essays and Academic Work
Waterlover, Griefcarrier, Meansoaker
Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
The Patriarchal Gyre
And They Worshipped Her
Austen’s Inferno
Finding Reality
Shattering Citadels
A Wave of Meaning
Intro to Feminism
Literary Explorations
Macbeth's Christian Dagger
A Kingly Lesson - Macbeth, Malcolm, and that One Scene You Skimmed Through
Literary Odysseys
Ulysses - A YouTube Odyssey
Part 1: "I'm Going to Prison!"
AP Specific Resources
Artificial Intelligence
AI, Data, and Privacy
How AI and LLMs Work
List of AI Tools
Setting Guardrails
Diversifying Instruction using AI
Engagement Activities with AI
World-Building and Role-Playing with AI
Academia and AI
Grading Using AI
Prompting AI
About the Paintings
About Me
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"Absences is the highest form of presence" (Joyce)
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