Teach students how to write creative works, such as short stories and personal essays, using a concrete approach and interspersed lesson activities! Can be taught solo or in tandem with Andzej Sapkowski's "A Grain of Truth" and the Creative Writing assignment. Students will learn:

• Gardener and architect approaches to planning
• Freytag's plot pyramid
• Promises, progress, and pay offs
• Types of setting and worlbuilding
• Principles and types of character writing
• Show, don't tell strategies