Valerie Hockert

Teaching Creative Writing: a Sixteen Week Lesson Plan: Larger Format Valerie Hockert

This book is in a larger format so that students can use it as a textbook, and a workbook, as it is then easier to write in. The book includes many creative writing exercises to get the creative juices flowing, and is a more understandable and comprehensible textbook than those of its competitors. Various types of paragraph development, and stories to rewrite are all designed to get the students? creative juices flowing, and have proved to be quite beneficial to students of various writing levels. Do you need some yawn-proof and sleep-proof writing exercises to get your students to actively participate? Then this book is for you, as it is very complete and is designed to be taught over 16 weeks. It can, of course, be taught in less, by combining some of the lessons into one week. So it would work with an 8-week or 12-week course schedule. Learn to eliminate writers? block and to creatively express one?s thoughts through creative writing. Valerie Hockert has taught creative writing at a college level for many years, and has a PhD in Literary Studies.