Deadline: 25 February 2012
Introduction
This workshop is specifically designed for teachers who have not attended our other writing workshops - Writing 101: Writing a Good Composition and Writing 102: Building Better Plots - and want a crash course on strategies to teach narrative writing.
Transferable Skills:
Outline:
> Group Discussion > Pre-writing games
> What makes good writing? > End the ending
> Lesson plan > Self-reflection
Who Needs This Course
This workshop is targeted at primary and secondary school language teachers.
Your Workshop Leader
FELIX CHEONG was the recipient of the National Arts Council’s Young Artist of the Year for Literature Award in 2000. He has published a few books of poetry, of which his third, Broken by the Rain (2003) was shortlisted for the 2004 Singapore Literature Prize. He has also published a non-fiction book commissioned by the National Youth Council, Different (2005), which includes interviews with more than 50 successful Singaporeans like pop singer Kit Chan and entrepreneur Charles Wong. In 2006, he published his first work of teen fiction, The Call from Crying House, which is now being used as an English Literature text in secondary schools. The sequel, Woman in the Last Carriage, was published in 2007.
Felix’s creative work has been published extensively in newspapers like The Straits Times, poetry journals like Quarterly Literary Review of Singapore, foreign journals like Papertiger and Stylus Poetry Journal. As a literary activist, he has been involved in promoting Singaporean literature abroad. He was instrumental in organising and leading a Singapore contingent on 4 successful reading tours – The Philippines (2001), Australia (2001), the US (2002) and UK (2003). He is currently a regular columnist for The Edge Singapore and Today newspapers.
Download registration form here >>
CONTACT INFORMATION:
For inquiries: clap@bookcouncil.sg
Website: http://bookcouncil.sg/
Introduction
This workshop is specifically designed for teachers who have not attended our other writing workshops - Writing 101: Writing a Good Composition and Writing 102: Building Better Plots - and want a crash course on strategies to teach narrative writing.
Transferable Skills:
- Suggestions for pre-writing activities.
- Helping students understand differences between plot and character-driven stories.
- Helping students to identify elements of plot such as motivation, reversals and inciting incident.
- Examples to help students identify 20 master plots.
- Strategies to help students end their stories strongly.
Outline:
> Group Discussion > Pre-writing games
> What makes good writing? > End the ending
> Lesson plan > Self-reflection
Who Needs This Course
This workshop is targeted at primary and secondary school language teachers.
Your Workshop Leader
FELIX CHEONG was the recipient of the National Arts Council’s Young Artist of the Year for Literature Award in 2000. He has published a few books of poetry, of which his third, Broken by the Rain (2003) was shortlisted for the 2004 Singapore Literature Prize. He has also published a non-fiction book commissioned by the National Youth Council, Different (2005), which includes interviews with more than 50 successful Singaporeans like pop singer Kit Chan and entrepreneur Charles Wong. In 2006, he published his first work of teen fiction, The Call from Crying House, which is now being used as an English Literature text in secondary schools. The sequel, Woman in the Last Carriage, was published in 2007.
Felix’s creative work has been published extensively in newspapers like The Straits Times, poetry journals like Quarterly Literary Review of Singapore, foreign journals like Papertiger and Stylus Poetry Journal. As a literary activist, he has been involved in promoting Singaporean literature abroad. He was instrumental in organising and leading a Singapore contingent on 4 successful reading tours – The Philippines (2001), Australia (2001), the US (2002) and UK (2003). He is currently a regular columnist for The Edge Singapore and Today newspapers.
Download registration form here >>
CONTACT INFORMATION:
For inquiries: clap@bookcouncil.sg
Website: http://bookcouncil.sg/
