Write Creatively
ENGLISH FACULTY
| 🎓 Course Type | Elective |
|---|---|
| 🧩 Units | 1 |
| 🗓 Timing | Year 9 or Year 10 |
| ⏱ Hours per week | 3 |
| 📚 Prior Experience | Not required |
| ✏️ Selection | Up to 2 units of English electives may be studied across Years 9 and 10 |
| 🧭 Future Pathways | TCE Level 2 or 3, or IBDP. In particular, preparation for English Writing in Year 12. |
Write Creatively is a writing workshop that aims to build the confidence of young writers, developing their creativity, literacy and personal voice. Students explore different writing techniques and styles, learn to ‘read like a writer’ by reading and drawing inspiration from the work of well-known (and not so well-known) writers; learn to embrace the drafting process and to critique their own and others’ work.
In any given semester the creative writing teacher will choose from a range of units, including: genre writing, prose fiction, poetry, journalism, creative non-fiction, script writing (for stage and/or screen) and the Independent Project (IP), where a student nominates the focus and nature of their own writing project.
Students are encouraged to enter School and other writing competitions and to submit to publications. Students work with visiting writers as the opportunity arises, for example, via our writer-in-residence program. Write Creatively also prepares students for those components of pre-tertiary English study which require creative and persuasive written responses and specifically for the demands and expectations of TCE English Writing Level 3.
View why the 9/10 Write Creatively is for you, in the presentation below.
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