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Creative Writing. on preschool, elementary , secondary and tertiary level Renata Emilsson Pesková, Hlíðaskóli. Cartoons. 5th and 6th grades of Hlíðaskóli 2011/2012 http://issuu.com/renatape/docs/sm_sagnakeppni_grunnsk_la_2011_flettib_klingur/28. Overview: . Short story - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Renata Emilsson Pesková, Hlíðaskóli The Multitudinous Forms of Communication 2012

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Creative Writing

on preschool,

elementary,

secondary

and tertiary level

Renata Emilsson Pesková, Hlíðaskóli

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Cartoons 5th and 6th grades of Hlíðaskóli 2011/2012http://issuu.com/renatape/docs/sm_sagnakeppni_grunnsk_la_2011_flettib_klingur/28

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Overview:

Short story Short stories in the English classroom Exchange about creative writing

(individual and group work) and presenting the outcome.

Writing workshop

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Aims To discuss teaching creative writing in English

classrooms

To argue that the short story / creative writing has it´s place in English classroom on preschool, elementary, secondary level, as well as in the adult life

To promote the discussion about creative writing among English teachers in elementary and secondary schools

To give teachers some simple tools to work with short stories

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I. Short story

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Write down your definition of “short story”

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What is a short story?

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An answer of a 5-year-old:

“What you tell people so they will be happy.” (p. 163)

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An answer of a 10-year-old:

“Telling about something and using transition words, a good opening, closing, details and elaboration” (p. 163)

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Kinds of short stories (p. 164)

Classifications (p. 165)

Progressive Plotline (p. 169)

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“One can´t believe impossible things”. “I dare say you haven´t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age I always did it for half an hour a day. Why sometimes I´ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

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II. SHORT STORIES IN THE ENGLISH CLASSROOM

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Short stories in the lessons

A. READING STORIESB. WRITING STORIES

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“Nothing can help you “learn” how to write a good, short story better than reading good short stories.“(http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Short-Story)

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A. Reading short stories

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Story-based approach to teaching English (Primary Essentials, British Council)

Patience A. Karlsson, Storytelling as a teaching strategy

Conference Story-line in August

Ritsmiðja fyrir kennara (STÍL) in August

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Work with a short storypreliminary activities

Drawing, acting, brainstorming, alternative endings, guessing, analyzing, summing up, organizing, using graphs, creating booklets & posters, individual portfolio, mapping individual progress ..

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Work with a short story (cont.)activities during reading

Vocabulary, guessing the end, drawing the place or the character …

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Work with a short story (cont.)post-reading activities

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/britlit/hand-feeds-me

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B. WRITING SHORT STORIES

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How to write a short storyhttp://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Short-Story

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Introduction into story writing:

Think sheet for story planning Character fact sheet (drawing)Drafting (mind map)Progressive plotlineStory mountain

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WritingEditingSharingContinuous Assessment (p. 196 + 206)

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Short story competition 2010/11, 2011/12, 2012/13 Cartoons in 5-6th grades 3 age categories – will be 4 No topic – may be a wide topic Online brochure http://tungumalatorg.is/enska/renata%c2%b4s-space/short-story

-competition/

Tungumálatorg

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III. EXCHANGE ABOUT WRITING

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1. WRITTEN INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT

Think about writing in English classes.(handout)

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282. WRITTEN GROUP ASSIGNMENT

3-4 persons in a group

Elementary school teachers together

Secondary school teachers together

Keep your individual answers at hand

Sum up your groups answers to these

three questions:

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What are the advantages and disadvantages of creative writing in the English classroom?

Do/Can English teachers utilize creative writing in the classroom? How?

How do English teachers evaluate writing?

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PRESENTING THE FINDINGS

OF THE GROUPS

IV. Writing workshop

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PROJECT: Short story

Participants get a taste of how students learn to write short stories…

Read some beginnings of short stories. Write a beginning of a short story. Share everyone´s beginning of a short

story.

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Brainstorming

Idea

Draw a mind map

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Sketching

Setting

Character

Plot

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Write a Catchy First Paragraph

In today’s fast-moving world, the first sentence of your short story should catch your reader’s attention with the unusual, the unexpected, an action, or a conflict.

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Start writing

Choose the right words!

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Kristýn Ýr8. bekkur Hlíðaskóla

What if?

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