Creative+Writing+&+Drama

Creative activity (isn't) the icing on the cake. Human creativity is the cake." (Jerry Hirsch) The Creative Writing course is for the student wanting to master higher levels of a variety writing genres. All written works will be kept in a writing folder to use as material for the final outcome of putting together a creative writing portfolio. The following are suggested texts and resources:

Text: //Creative Writing: Forms and Techniques //; National Textbook Company.

Additional Resources: //Look, Think & Write: Using Pictures to Stimulate Thinking and Improving Writing //; Day Leavitt, Hart; Sohn, David A.; National Textbook Company, 1996.

//Writing Process Activities Kit //; Brandvik, Mary Lou; Center for Applied Research in Education; Simon & Schuster, 1990. (Teacher resource only, not for class set)

__An outline of the nine essential units, selective units and suggested materials follows: __


 * E01 Descriptive Writing (People & Places) **


 * E02 Characterization **


 * E03 Prose **


 * E04 Poetry **


 * E05 Play Writing **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 17.3333px;">E06 Commercial Creative Writing (Greeting cards, Advertising, etc.) **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 17.3333px;">E07 Memoir **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 17.3333px;">E08 Children’s story **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 17.3333px;">E09 Creative Writing Portfolio **


 * SELECTIVES: **
 * S01 Publishing **
 * S02 Fables and Myths **
 * S03 Dialogue **
 * S04 Literary magazine **

__**<span style="color: #9488dd; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Dramatic Arts **__ <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">The Secondary Dramatic Arts I course is a Fine Art elective. The course possesses two dimensions for the students; a series of units advancing the development of dramatic acting, and a series of units designed to assist in creating a theatrical product. Students will work diligently during the first six units to develop their skills as actors, thereafter apply those skills to a school or class production. Process and product are the two key components of the course. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">The course will introduce various facets of theatre including acting, production and postproduction work within a set of essential and selective units. The main focus, though, is on the methods and general practice of the dramatic arts. All students who elect to take this class must be aware that they will participate in a class or school performance; either onstage or backstage, with preproduction, production and possibly postproduction involvement. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">This course emphasizes class participation, group interaction, and cooperative decision-making toward the established course outline. A number of individual and group assignments will be required of each student in order to evaluate various units. Since most units will be judged by the strength and development of student performance, a rubric will be provided specific to each unit for evaluation of student performance. Though development acting skills is the main intent of the class, as the year progresses some students may elect to pursue production units after completing the core set of essential drama units. This will permit the development of acting skills for all students, yet allow students to incorporate what they have learned to a broader set of theater skills. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> **Secondary Dramatic Arts I** is divided into six essential units and a number of selective units. The first six units are designed to teach the students the basics of acting. Improvisation, movement, character study and selecting and performing a monologue and dialogue are skills the students will be building during this time. Instructors must consider each student individually upon assessment; remembering that students coming from diverse backgrounds and cultures will most likely possesses differing levels of acting skills and potential. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">A set of resources will be provided to each class; however, no class set of texts will be necessary. **Dramatic Arts I** is meant to be a Workshop-style course. Acting activities and productions goals are the aim of the course; therefore a practicum approach is best. The students must be active and constantly applying skills. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">An outline of the units follows. Some of these units are prerequisites for following units. The first unit is ongoing. It is essential that students are made aware of the fact that their day-to-day actions are important and will determine their grade for the first unit. It is possible to rearrange the order of some of these units, but the six essential units are best if done in their order.

==__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Essential Units __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">: (The students must complete all six essential units): ==
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">E01 **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">- Acting Exercises(open in the beginning of the year and keep open until the beginning of the theatrical production.)
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">E02 **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> -Improvisation (open in the beginning of the year and keep open until the beginning of the theatrical production.)
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">E03 **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> - Movement
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">E04 **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> - Monologue Dialogue
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">E05 **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> - Character Study
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">E06 **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> - Technical Theatre(preparation for production)

==__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Selective Units __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">: (four units must be picked from this menu of selective units for completion of Dramatic Arts I): ==
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">S01 **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> - Audition
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">S02 **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> - Rehearsal
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">S03 **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> - Production
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">S04 **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> – Stage Management
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">S05 **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> - Scene Design
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">S06 **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> - Costume Design
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">S07 **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> - Property Descign
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">S08 - **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Light Design
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">S0 **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">9 - Sound Design
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">S10 **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> - Masks/Makeup
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">S11 **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> - One-Act Play
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">S12 **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> - Portfolio