Senior High School Specialized Subject: Creative Writing

Creative Writing is one of the specialized subjects under the academic career track and the HUMSS learning strand. Some examples of the things that you will learn from taking this subject include:

• Creative Writing
  • Imaginative writing vs. technical / academic / other forms of writing
  • Sensory experience
  • Language
    • Imagery
    • Figures of speech
    • Diction
  • Sample works of well-known local and foreign writers
• Reading and Writing Poetry
  • Elements of the genre
    • Essential elements
      • Theme
      • Tone
    • Elements for specific forms
      • Conventional forms
        • rhyme and meter
        • metaphor
      • Free verse
        • the line and line break
        • enjambments
        • metaphor
      • Other experimental texts
        • typography
        • genre-crossing texts (e.g. prose poem, performance poetry, etc.)
        • Tone
• Techniques and literary devices (modelling from well-known local and foreign poets)
• Reading and Writing Fiction
  • Elements of the genre
    • Character
    • Point of view
      • 1st-person POV (major, minor, or bystander
      • 2nd-person POV
      • 3rd-person POV (objective, limited omniscient, omniscient)
    • Plot
      • linear
      • modular/episodic
    • traditional parts
      • exposition
      • rising action
      • climax
      • falling action
      • resolution/denouement
    • Setting and atmosphere
      • time and place
      • cultural, sociological, political, religious, etc. milieu
      • sensibilities that lead to specific modes
    • Conflict
    • Irony
      • verbal
      • situational
      • dramatic
    • Theme
      • moral/lesson
      • dramatic premise
      • insight
• Techniques and literary devices
  • Mood/tone
  • Foreshadowing
  • Symbolism and motif
• Modelling from well-known local and foreign short story writers in a range of modes
• Reading and Writing Drama (one-act)*
• Elements of the genre
  • Character
  • Setting
  • Plot
  • Dialogue
• Techniques and literary devices
  • Intertextuality
  • Conceptualization of modality
• Modelling from well-known local and foreign playwrights
• The creative work in literary and /or sociopolitical context

While studying, you will also be asked to demonstrate what you have learned by participating in class activities that may include the following:

• Producing short paragraphs using imagery, diction, figures of speech, etc.
• Producing a short, well-crafted poem
• Producing at least one striking scene for a short story
• Composing at least one scene for a one-act play that can be staged
• Producing a craft essay on the personal creative process
• Deploying a consciously selected orientation of creative writing
• Designing a group blog for poetry and fiction
• Producing a suite of poems, a short story, or a script for a one-act play
• Creating hypertext literature

These examples only cover the scope of the specialized subjects under the academic track and HUMSS learning strand. For the scope of the core and contextualized subjects under the senior high school curriculum, please refer to their respective lists.