Creative Writing: Workshop Your Writing
Angelia Derrick (she/her)
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Students will edit (editing) their writing with other students and the instructor to get feedback on their short stories, novels, and scripts that are in progress or completed, and they will be beta readers for their classmates.
Class experience
US Grade 5 - 7
Beginner - Advanced Level
Students will receive and give feedback on their novels and screenplays as they write or edit. Students are welcome to bring a work-in-progress or one they have completed (finished writing) to receive feedback on. Types of Feedback Given - Developmental - This sort of feedback focuses on your overall plot, who your characters are and do they behave in a believable way, and ideas for moving your story forward when you aren't sure what happens next. Structural - This sort of feedback focuses...
Students will improve their manuscript through feedback from other students and their instructor.
Writing young adult fantasy and space opera under the pen name Angelia Almos. Master of Fine Arts in Screenwriting Bachelor of Arts in Applied Arts: Creative Writing Certificates from Institute of Children's Literature Certificates from Institute for Writers
Homework Offered
Students will need to prepare up to five pages (or all of it) of their book, put into a google doc, and place in the padlet 48 hours before class starts to receive feedback that week. If the novel or screenplay is complete, I recommend posting the entire manuscript and you can proof the next five pages before class with anything you have learned. Students will read and give feedback to their classmates in those 48 hours before class starts. They need to be prepared to explain their feedback in class.1 - 2 hours per week outside of class
Assessments Offered
Grades Offered
1 file available upon enrollmentStudents will need to have a Google and Padlet account. Students will use Padlet to post their links to their Google Docs for their classmates to suggest and comment on their pages. Students may use their google account provided by a school district, but some districts don't allow sharing of docs outside the district. If this is the case, the student will need to make a google account for this class (or use a guardians). Students can use their google account to log in to Padlet.
In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:
If a student is working on a book that contains mature or sensitive topics, we will be talking about them in class.
Students will use Google Doc and Padlet to post their work for students to give feedback to them.
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Pronoun: she/her/hers NOTE: If you were looking at one of my flexible schedule classes and they are suddenly gone, yes, I still have them, and I am currently figuring out which classes will be able to go into the new self-paced designation that...
Group Class
$18
weekly1x per week
55 min
Completed by 52 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 11-13
2-5 learners per class
