Week 2 | Creative Writing Part 1

Week 2  |  Creative Writing Part 1

Today we will talk about:

1. What is creative writing
2. How do I learn about creative writing
3. What are some writing styles and genres
4. Watch and discuss a video about creative writing
5. Write a description of the your joinery to the class today
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Here is the video we are going to watch today.

What do you think?

What's the best idea you can use from this video?

Are there any bits you disagree with?


Task 1

Write 100 words about your journey to the class today. INclude things you saw, things you felt, things that are perhaps surprising. Then, after 20 minutes, talk to the person next to you about what you wrote. Ask each other some questions about the writing.

We will talk about this as a class today.

Week 1 | Course Orientation

Welcome to the new January 2012 BYA Writing and Photography Blog!!

Hi everyone,

This is Paul, your new teacher here. I have made this blog so we can share some of our photos and creative writing on the course. I will also post a new "blog" entry every week on a Friday - so you can see what we are studying and what we are gonna talk about in class - before you get to class on Tuesday evenings!! Cool huh?

Welcome to the BYA Creative Writing and Photos Class, January 2012

Class 1, Week 1: for January 15

Topics for Class 1

1. Talk about our interests in writing and photography
2. Talk about our favourite photos or books/poems - see my task for you below
3. Look at some examples of good and bad writing
4. Look at some examples of good and bad photography
5. Introduce this blog to everyone
6. Introduce the new BYA iPads to everyone
7. Open chat about ideas for iPads and Blogs in our course

Task to do before you come to Class 1

Please bring with you to the class a single photo you love, or the name of a single book/poem you love.
Be ready to say why you love it & what's good about it for 1 minute!
We will all do this, including me :)
Next week we will look at exactly how to use iPads and Blogs for doing photography. Check out this link if you have time: http://www.copyblogger.com/creative-writing-blogs-2011/ 

See you

See you on Tuesday, January 15th at 6pm - 8pm!! Looking forward to meeting everybody :)





Paul

Your BYA Writing and Photography teacher

byapaul@bya.co.uk  - email me if you have a question !