The Creative Compost

Creative Writing at Early College,

a Learning Community of

Robert E. Lee High School

Jacksonville, FL

YOU COULD BE PUBLISHED!!!

Submit to the THE CREATIVE COMPOST Literary Magazine.

For ALL students and faculty at Robert E. Lee High School.

Send poetry, short stories, and creative nonfiction.

Deadline for the Spring 2009 Issue is December 1, 2009.

Deadline for the Summer 2009 Issue is March 1, 2009.

Please include name, title of piece, address, grade, and community.

Email submissions to senesacc@duvalschool.org or drop them off

at Portable A2 next to the track.

RESPONSE POSTING ASSIGNMENTS

The fifth response posting will be based on your reading of two texts: first, the screen play to JAWS.  You will find the screenplay at http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Jaws.html Read up until this part:

                                     ELLEN                              (kissing him back)

                         Hey Chief. Bring my cup back.

The second text you will read Chapters 1, 3, and 4 from http://www.screenwriting.info/ ; these chapters should give you a good overview of format and screenwriting philosophy.

Your response posting will be about some key feature of screenwriting philosophy and any concerns you have with the screenwriting format.  Consider that your final piece will be a short 20-30 screenplay for a short film; what obstacles do you perceive in this process?  What are you most looking forward to?  What genre of film would you like to write in: horror, thriller, action-adventure, comedy, drama, teen, war, cartoon, fantasy, or a combination of these?  Why?

The second response posting will be due on November 15 (A-Day) and November 16 (B-Day).  These pieces are examples of creative non-fiction.  The student response must explain how each piece is a good example of creative non-fiction.  In order to do so, the student must understand what the story is and how it goes from "reportage" to creative wanderings.  Students will read and respond to the following creative non-fiction pieces:

"Lost on Colfax Avenue" at

http://www.creativenonfiction.org/brevity/brev25/calderazzo_lost.htm

and

"Scream" at

http://www.creativenonfiction.org/brevity/brev25/peckham_scream.htm

The first response will contain any writer's written response to the reading we do for this course.  A writer's

repsonse must include the following: a quotation from the reading, a paraphrase or explanation of

the quotation, how some principle from the quotation or the larger reading connects to your own

experiences as a learner and a writer, and how these principles can be applied to your future

writing.

Lee Gutkind's Creative Non-Fiction website, http://www.creativenonfiction.org/thejournal/articles/issue04/04editor.htm

a short editorial on the process of writing Creative Non-Fiction.

Reader's Response due November 5 (A-Day) and November 6(B-Day) by the beginning of class.

THE COMPOST PAGE

Writers will control the content of this page more than the Response Page.  For the Compost, the writer

will post rough drafts of prose or verse.  Other writers are welcome to respond to the drafts.  Remember

the guidelines for responding: writers respond to the work, not the author.