Letter for College Instructors
Letter for College Students
I. The Writing Process
1. Lesson 1: Writing Preferences and The Writing Process
2. Exercise 1: Identify Your Writing Preferences
3. Lesson 2: Writer’s Block
4. Video: Writer’s Block Instant Cure
5. Exercise 2: Your Experience with Writer’s Block
II. Creative Nonfiction
6. Creative Nonfiction Exercises, edited by Jess Smith
III. Writing Fiction
7. Lesson 3: Elements of Fiction
8. Exercise 3: Freytag’s Pyramid
9. Video: The Clues to a Great Story
10. Lesson 4: Show vs. Tell
11. Video: How to Write Descriptively
12. Exercise 4: Show vs. Tell
13. Lesson 5: Creating Characters
14. Video: What Makes a Hero?
15. Writing Assignment: Character Story
16. Rubric: Character Story
17. Lesson 6: Building a Setting
18. Video: How to Build a Fictional World
19. Writing Assignment: Setting Story
20. Lesson 7: Writing Dialogue
21. Video: Three Anti-social Skills to Improve Your Writing
22. Writing Assignment: Dialogue Story
23. Lesson 8: Exploring Points of View
24. Video: The Danger of a Single Story
IV. Writing Poetry
25. Video: Poetry Makes People Nervous
26. Lesson 9: Understanding Levels in Poetry
27. Lesson 10: Voice in Poetry
28. Poem: The Negro Speaks of Rivers
29. Poem – I’m Nobody! Who Are You?
30. Video: Tell Me about Yourself – Stories Through Poetry
31. Writing Assignment: Voice Poem
32. Video: Everyday Moments, Caught in Time
33. Lesson 11: Imagery in Poetry
34. Poem: A Bird Came Down the Walk
35. Poem: The Great Figure
36. Writing Assignment: Everyday Moment Poem
37. Rubric: Everyday Moment Poem
38. Video: Poetic Devices Rap by Testament
39. Lesson 12: Figures of Speech in Poetry
40. Poem: Fog
41. Poem: Prayers of Steel
42. Writing Assignment: Figure of Speech Poem
43. Rubric: Figure of Speech Poem
44. Video: The Pleasure of Poetic Pattern
45. Lesson 13: Sound and Rhythm in Poetry
46. Poem: The Eagle
47. Poem: Out, Out–
48. Writing Assignment: Sound Poem
49. Rubric: Sound Poem
50. Video: Hip-Hop & Shakespeare?
51. Lesson 14: Form in Poetry
52. Poem: When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be
53. Poem: The House on the Hill
54. Poem: In Just
55. Writing Assignment: Form Poem
56. Lesson 15: Allusions, Direct Addresses, and Symbols in Poetry
57. Poem: To E. T.
58. Poem: Acquainted with the Night
59. Writing Assignment: Allusion, Address, or Symbol Poem
60. Rubric: Allusion, Address, or Symbol Poem
61. Lesson 16: More about Poetry
62. Writing Assignment: Last Poem
63. Rubric: Last Poem
V. Peer Review Information
64. Assignment: Peer Review Instructions for Fiction
65. Sample Peer Review for Fiction
66. Assignment – Peer Review Form for Fiction
67. Assignment – Peer Review Instructions for Poetry
68. Sample Peer Review for Poetry
69. Assignment – Peer Review Form for Poetry
VI. Revision Techniques
70. Revising with the Search/Find Tool
71. Comma Rules and the Search/Find Tool
VII. Nonfiction Exercises
72. Parallel Universe Overload!
73. Character-Building Flashback: A Revision Exercise
74. Putting in Work
75. Superpowers and Place
76. An Exercise in Compression
77. Listing: A Scaffolded Approach to the Lyric Essay
Author: Testament
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