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This course teaches key components of using excellent description and crafting a strong and memorable setting for your fiction book. The course covers when a good writer uses description and setting (timing and amount of use); types of description (sensory, metaphor and simile, figures of speech, and literary techniques); principles and techniques of memorable settings; and how to integrate description and setting into plot, structure, and character development.
Total classes: 4
Prerequisite: Required — WRITING ESSENTIALS 1: Essential Punctuation and Grammar I (HS 9-1). Recommended: SIMPLIFIED WRITING 1: Strong Foundational Writing Skills (HS 9-2). Prerequisites can be taken either “live” or through Unlimited Access. Your student will need Word 2007 or later version or the ability to convert a document to a Word-compatible document.
Suggested grade level: 11th grade; however, all students are welcome
Suggested credit: 1/3 semester Creative Writing. Take this course with HS 11-1 (Plot & Structure) and HS 11-3 (Characters & Dialogue) for a full semester of credit (12 weeks).
Description
This course teaches key components of using excellent description and crafting a strong and memorable setting for your fiction book. The course covers when a good writer uses description and setting (timing and amount of use); types of description (sensory, metaphor and simile, figures of speech, and literary techniques); principles and techniques of memorable settings; and how to integrate description and setting into plot, structure, and character development.
Outline
Class 1: Description and Setting: Timing and the Basics of their Use
Class 2: Types of Description—The senses, metaphor and simile, figures of speech, and literary techniques
Class 3: Principles and techniques of memorable settings (including examples to learn by)
Class 4: How to integrate description and setting into plot, structure, and character development
Materials and Homework
Course Materials: All materials are provided FREE via the instructor.
Homework: Weekly writing assignments, with an estimated three to four hours per week for homework outside of class time that includes reading, writing, and responding to feedback from parent/teacher
