Creative Writingvideoconference

Vocabulary

Elaine Kalman Naveswww.elainekalmannaves.com

with award winning author

In partnership with:• Community Learning Centers of Quebec• The Learning Exchange• Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network

Project funding courtesy of Canadian Heritage

Stories to tell…• We all have stories to tell: stories about ourselves, our

families, our communities, our traditions, our past. • True stories are especially powerful, because they are

grounded in facts. • When a writer recounts a true story it is as if she is signing an

unofficial contract with the reader. • The gist of the contract is: "The story I'm about to tell you

really happened." A name for this kind of writing is creative nonfiction.

• It's a style of writing that borrows techniques from fiction writing such as dramatization and dialogue in the service of telling a true – as opposed to an invented – story.

Author• A person who creates a written work (writer).

Authentic• Being really what it seems to be (genuine); made to be or look

just like an original.

Autobiography• A biography written by the person it is about.

Biography• A history of a person's life.

Creative nonfiction• (Also known as literary or narrative nonfiction): a genre of

writing that uses literary styles and techniques to create factually accurate narratives.

Fiction• The form of any work that deals, in part or in whole, with

information or events that are not factual, but rather, imaginary and theoretical—that is, invented by the author.

Heritage• Refers to something inherited from the past.

Holocaust• The mass murder or genocide of approximately six million

Jews during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi Germany, led by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, throughout German-occupied territory.

• Of the nine million Jews who had resided in Europe before the Holocaust, approximately two-thirds were killed.

• Over one million Jewish children were killed in the Holocaust, as were approximately two million Jewish women and three million Jewish men.

Hungarian Revolution• A spontaneous nationwide revolt against the government of

the People's Republic of Hungary and its Soviet-imposed policies, lasting from 23 October until 10 November 1956.

• It was the first major threat to Soviet control since the USSR forces drove out the Nazis at the end of World War II and occupied Eastern Europe.

• Despite the failure of the uprising, it was highly influential, and came to play a role in the downfall of the Soviet Union decades later.

Literature• Written works having excellence of form or expression and

ideas of lasting and widespread interest.

Non-fiction (or nonfiction)• The form of any narrative, account, or other communicative

work whose assertions and descriptions are understood to be factual.

Poetry• A form of literary art which uses aesthetic and rhythmic

qualities of language.

Prose• Writing that does not have the repeating rhythm used in

poetry; the ordinary language that people use when they speak or write.

Publish• To produce or release for publication; to print the work of.

Videoconferencing• The conduct of a videoconference by a set of

telecommunication technologies which allow two or more locations to communicate by simultaneous two-way video and audio transmissions.