Creative writing workshop
Daily schedule:
--Seminar
----- Explain the concepts
----- Analyse example texts
-- Exercises
----- Give prompts relevant to area of study for the day
----- Allow students 15-20 minutes to write on each prompt
----- At end of writing, will have group discussion, and go through exemplar responses for each stimulus
-- Personal writing
Throughout the week, students will be encouraged to develop a piece of creative writing
(500-1000 words long), from the very basics. Feedback will be provided for students throughout to help their improvement. Aim is to produce a very polished, marked piece that may be further utilised.
- Day 1: story ideas (research, extra reading, authenticity), matching stimulus, understanding audience
- Day 2: structure/pacing and textual forms and genre and point of view
- Day 3: characters and world building
- Day 4: literary techniques (dialogue, description)
- Day 5: polishing work (cutting down unnecessary elements, tightening plot, enhancing relevance of literary techniques), peer marking and discussion, reflections
School | Offered | Reserved |
---|---|---|
James Ruse AHS | 46 | 10 |
North Sydney Girls HS | 19 | 5 |
Baulkham Hills HS | 35 | 17 |
North Sydney Boys HS | 21 | 4 |
Normanhurst Boys HS | 15 | 7 |
Sydney Boys HS | 23 | 9 |
Hornsby Girls HS | 15 | 5 |
Sydney Girls HS | 14 | 1 |
Fort Street HS | 9 | 3 |
Penrith Selective HS | 4 | 1 |
Girraween HS | 5 | 1 |
NBSC Manly Campus | 3 | 1 |
St George Girls HS | 2 | 1 |
Hurlstone Agriculture HS | 15 | 1 |
Others | 14+ |
School | Offered | Reserved |
---|---|---|
Beecroft Public School | 9 | 6 |
North Rocks Public School | 8 | 5 |
Ermington Public School | 7 | 3 |
Artarmon Public School | 7 | 2 |
Matthew Pearce Public School | 6 | 4 |
Dural Public School | 7 | 1 |
Waitara Public School | 4 | 1 |
Hurstville Public School | 3 | 2 |
Ryde Public School | 4 | 1 |
Ironbark Ridge Public School | 6 | 4 |
Chatswood Public School | 7 | 3 |
Woollahra Public School | 5 | 0 |
Neutral Bay Public School | 6 | 0 |
Others | 25+ |
School | Offered | Reserved |
---|---|---|
James Ruese AHS | 7 | 1 |
Baulkham Hills HS | 5 | 1 |
North Sydney Girls HS | 4 | 2 |
North Sydney Boys HS | 1 | 1 |
Hornsby Girls HS | 3 | |
Normanhurst Boys HS | 5 | 2 |
Sydney Boys HS | 4 | |
Sydney Girls HS | 3 | 2 |
Penrith Selective HS | 1 | |
Girraween HS | 2 | |
NBSC Manly Campus | 3 | |
Fort Street HS | 1 | |
Others | 3 |