Write for Fun: Go Wild is a prompt-based writing course where students explore original writing outside of strict formats and heavy revision requirements. Students use Brave Writer® foundational approaches including freewriting and word play to write original narratives on topics of interest.
Students discover the joy and power of their writing voices by focusing on content exclusively. Feedback from the instructor focuses on the impact of the message on the reader rather than mechanical accuracy. This approach to gentle validation of writing content allows students to overcome writing resistance as they explore and play with language in a relaxed atmosphere.
Syllabus
Week One
Students develop fresh vocabulary to describe objects around them this week. With new language at hand, students create original scrounged poetry.
Week Two
This week writers take their observation skills out of the house to go on a color walk. They end the week with an exploration of the personality of a neighborhood house.
Week Three
Students break free of writing confines by investigating shape writing, contradicting established “types” in description, and using new experiences to inspire original poetry.
Common Core and Academic Standards Support
What follows is a word bank and set of skills associated with this class. Use them to craft your own learning narrative for use in year-end evaluations, charter school reports, or any other accountability source.
Word Bank
- Character
- Creative writing
- Description
- Keen observation
- Novelty in writing
- Perspective
- Poetry
- Rhyme
- Sensory writing
- Vivid detail
- Vocabulary development
- Writing craft
- Writing voice
Core Skills
- Adopt a new perspective by crafting a novel writing situation
- Contradict established stereotypes by writing about a character against type
- Describe an object using multiple senses
- Explore different points of view and writing from that perspective
- Engage in freewriting to move ideas to the page
- Imbue an inanimate object with human characteristics
- Keenly observe an object and develop vivid descriptive details
- Utilize distinct writer’s voice
- Write detailed, organized, structured original narratives
- Write an original poem based on a novel experience
