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Some Useful Exercises for Creative Writing Classes.
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McCann, Janet – Exercise Exchange, 1979
Provides a series of suggestions to help students in poetry writing classes move past those periods when ideas for poems seem to have stopped flowing. (TJ)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Higher Education, Poetry, Teaching Methods
Teaching Poetry in a Collaborative Learning Situation
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Comprone, Joseph J. – Exercise Exchange, 1974
Descriptors: Creative Writing, English Instruction, Higher Education, Poetry
American Graffiti: Understanding Characters in Literature.
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Crowe, Chris – Exercise Exchange, 1986
Describes an activity in which students must invent graffiti that might have been written by one of the characters studied in the class's literature assignments. (HTH)
Descriptors: Characterization, Creative Writing, Literature Appreciation, Secondary Education
Getting Into Fiction
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Seid, Kenneth A. – Exercise Exchange, 1973
Descriptors: College Instruction, Creative Writing, Fiction, Secondary Education
"It's the Same Thing, Only Different": An Exercise in Characterization.
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Blythe, Hal; Sweet, Charlie – Exercise Exchange, 1979
Suggests an exercise to be used in a creative writing class to help students learn the various techniques available for characterization. (TJ)
Descriptors: Characterization, Creative Writing, Higher Education, Paragraph Composition
They Only Think They Have Nothing to Write About!
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Shuman, R. Baird – Exercise Exchange, 1977
Describes an exercise that encourages writing by students. Each student is given a limited amount of time to write about anything that comes to mind, the papers are redistributed and a second student adds to what has been written, a third student adds more, and a fourth student writes a conclusion. (TJ)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, English Instruction, Higher Education, Secondary Education
Creating Poetry.
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Shaughnessy, Shari E. – Exercise Exchange, 1987
Provides a step-by-step approach to teaching students the elements of poetry, such as similes, acrostics, metaphors, and odes. Copies of handouts are included. (HTH)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, English Instruction, Figurative Language, Metaphors
Clozing the Gaps between Language Skills.
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Saunders, Michael – Exercise Exchange, 1977
Demonstrates the use of the cloze procedure as a way of teaching vocabulary appropriate to a particular genre and of helping students write a narrative that is well-shaped and thoughtfully worded. (TJ)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Creative Writing, English Instruction, Higher Education
Creative Spelling Exercise.
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McCotter, Kathryn – Exercise Exchange, 1989
Describes three exercises which use creative spelling in student-generated advertising, poetry, and dialect. (MM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Writing, Higher Education, Poetry
A Round-Robin Creative Writing Experience.
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Smelcer, John E. – Exercise Exchange, 1989
Describes a collaborative writing activity, designed to promote free and creative writing, in which groups of students each write one section of a collective short story. (MM)
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Creative Writing, Higher Education, Secondary Education
Poetry as a Springboard to Critical Thinking.
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Smith, Maggy; Salome, Peggy – Exercise Exchange, 1989
Presents an assignment in which students use their study of poetry to think critically and write creatively. Describes how students synthesize inferences about a poem to write character monologs based on the poem. (MM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Writing, Critical Thinking, Higher Education
Darmok & Jalad at Tannagra: A Lesson in Cultural Communication and Writing.
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Staten, Karen A. – Exercise Exchange, 1996
Describes a writing assignment based on a "Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode in which an alien sacrifices his life so two cultures can come together. Provides questions for students to answer during the viewing of the episode. Suggests a writing assignment (and several variations) in which students create their own alien. (TB)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Higher Education, Intercultural Communication, Lesson Plans
Sequenced Writing Assignments.
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Pytlik, Betty P.; Bergdahl, David – Exercise Exchange, 1987
Provides eight sequential, process-oriented writing assignments: (1) diagnostic essay, (2) personal account, (3) ghost writing, (4) summary, (5) developing a thesis, (6) exploratory essay, (7) proposal, and (8) final paper. (HTH)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Expository Writing, Freshman Composition, Higher Education