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CREATIVE WRITING RESPONSE PROJECT
As a creative writing response to the film, students will create 5-10 pages of polished, workshopped creative writing and bind them together as books that can be presented in the library as literary responses to Michael Moore's film Bowling for Columbine. In a portfolio each student will create any of the following options or combination of options.
- A series of 5-7 poems (These poems could focus on a theme from the movie such as fear or touch on a number of different themes.)
- A short story based on or inspired by the movie
- A series of vignettes inspired by the movie
- A stage play inspired by the movie
- A screenplay inspired by the movie
- A "rant" or a series of "rants" or other creative non-fiction pieces inspired by the movie
The portfolio must also include 5 appropriate internal illustrations and a cover page with an illustration. The illustrations can be drawings, collages, computer graphics, photographs, etc. The illustrations must act as an enhancement of the writing (make sure they are thematically appropriate to the writing and not just random).
At the end of the unit, the class will do a reading in which each student presents 30 seconds to one minute of their work to the class.
WRITER'S WORKSHOP
At least one day of the unit should be a writer's workshop. In groups of 3-4, students read their rough drafts to each other and get feedback on mechanics, style and content. The following sentence starters can be written on the board or turned into a worksheet that the students complete for each other during the workshop:
- As a response to Bowling for Columbine, the student author chose to write...
- The best part of this creative writing is...
- The place where I thought the author could most improve his/her writing is...
- The author best captured the essence of Bowling for Columbine when...
- My favorite three lines of this writer's work are...
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