为了帮助家长们了解Hillhouse的写作课程,我们对创意写作第一课做了课堂摘录·
Steven老师的创意写作课程大容量、快节奏,在两个小时中引导学生们讨论了如下一些话题:老师首先和大家一起讨论关于写作“喜欢和害怕做的一件事情”,导入课程,激发兴趣。
- 喜欢写作的一件事
- One thing you enjoy about writing
写出想法,表达自己;阅读、辩论、争论、证明别人是错的
科幻小说;可以有创意,想写什么就写什么
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Putting ideas down, express myself
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Reading
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Debate, argumentative, prove others wrong
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Science fiction
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Can be creative, write whatever you want
- 害怕写作的一件事
- One thing you fear about writing
对话、语法、句子如何组合、在文章何处呈现
写作的内容可能会显得糟糕,探索是否有更好的语法、如何改变表达使文章听起来更有趣。同时老师会指导不同体裁的写作方式,如议论文,记叙文。我们的课程一直鼓励学生进行批判性思维。
不够详细;用尽主意,主意是坏的;同学编辑
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Conventions, grammar, how sentences go together and where to put them
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Writing might appear bad, better grammar, sound interesting, not sounding smooth
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Writing essays, narrative essays
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Being criticized
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Not detailed enough
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Running out of ideas, ideas are bad
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Peer editing
02. 教学目标
➊ 告诉你创意写作如何带来意想不到的回报
- Show you how creative writing can lead to unexpected rewards
➋ 分享老师的阅读和写作经验
- Share my experiences with reading and writing
➌ 向你介绍有趣的小说,并引导你们分析它们
- Introduce interesting pieces of fiction to you and analyze them alongside you
➍ 引导你找到适合自己的创作过程
- Guide you to find the creative process that
03. 本节课计划
➊写作的创造过程
- The creative process of writing
➋ 想法的产生
- Generating ideas
➌ 做一些思考和写作
- Do some thinking and writing
➍阅读(如果我们有时间)
- Reading (if we have time)
➎问答贯穿始终
- Q&A throughout
04. 七周计划
➊ 展示和讲述 Showing and telling
➋ 人物塑造(一) Characterization (1)
➌ 人物塑造(二) Characterization (2)
➍ 场景 Setting
➎ 剧情与结构 Plot and Structure
➏ 观点 Point of View
➐ 比喻与明喻 Metaphor and Simile
❽ 修订和主题 Revision and Theme
05. 艺术家的心态 The Artistic Mindset
➊ 艺术家对世界秩序的直觉不同于哲学家、科学家和神学家。
- The artist has an intuition about the world’s order that’s different from that of philosopher, scientists, and theologians
➋ 最好的故事不是基于想法,而是从混乱的感官体验中诞生的
- The best stories aren’t based on ideas. They emerge from the chaos of sensory experience
➌ 作家把经验塑造成一种艺术品,供读者体会
- The writer shapes experience into an art object to be encountered by the reader
➍ “我觉得这个世界是有意义的,我想从我的经历和梦想中创造出艺术品。”
- “I’ve got this sense that the world has meaning, and I want to make art objects out of my experiences and my dreams”
06. 灵感的产生 Generating ideas
➊ 根据指派 Based on assignment
➋ 头脑风暴 Brainstorming
➌ 自由写作 Freewriting
➌ 涂鸦和素描 Doodling and sketching
➎ 映射 Mapping
➏ 想象 Imagining
➐ 向记者提问 Asking a reporter’s questions
❽ 寻找动机 Seeking motives
❾ 记日记 Keeping a journal
❿ 修订和主题 Revision and Theme
07. 苦乐参半的写作 Pain and Pleasure of Writing
痛苦Pain
➊ 害怕不完美(语法不好),自我判断
- Fear of imperfection (bad grammar), self judgment
➋ 害怕语言永远无法捕捉思想
- Fear that words will never capture an idea
➌ 害怕空白的一页
- Fear of the blank page
➍ 我的老师/妈妈会怎么说?
- What’s my teacher/mom gonna say
快乐Pleasure
➊ 构建优美的句子
- Constructing an elegant sentence
➋ 发现图像
- Discovering an image
➌ 看到一个角色栩栩如生
- Seeing a character come to life
08. 不要害怕,要去做 Don’t Dread, Do
➊ 开始 Getting Started
➋ 找出哪些习惯能让你富有成效/创造力
- Figuring out what habits make you productive/creative
➌ 允许(不强迫)自己每天写作
- Allowing (not making) yourself to write every day
➍ 记日记 Keeping a journal
➎ 一个私人的试验、成长和失败的空间
- A private space to experiment, grow, and fail
➏不管你写什么或写多少
- Doesn’t matter what or how much you write
➐ 比喻与明喻 Metaphor and Simile
❽ 养成用语言观察的习惯
- Getting in a steady habit of observing in words
09. 自由写作 Freewriting
无论内容多少,只要是从你的脑子中想出的并放到纸上或者屏幕上就行
Putting anything on paper, it doesn’t matter as long as it’s coming out of your head and onto paper/screen
➊ 继续前进,不要停止
- Keep going and don’t stop
➋ 尝试在屏幕变暗的笔记本电脑上这样做
- Try doing this on a laptop with your screen darkened
➌ 回顾你的自由写作,找出你所关心的东西
- Review your freewriting for indications of what you care about
➍ 提示 Prompts
➎ 故事不是从想法、主题或大纲开始的,而是从画面和迷恋开始的
- Stories don’t begin with ideas or themes or outlines; they start with images and obsessions
➏ 对提示做出反应是练习把你的想法写下来的一种方式
- Responding to prompts is a way to practice putting your thoughts into writing
10. 作业
从现在上课到下周上课,争取每天都写点东西。它可以是一个单词,一个句子,一段话……不管你想写多少。下周,准备好分享一些东西(任何东西!)
Try to write something every day between now and next week’s class. It can be a word, a sentence, a paragraph...however much you want to write. Next week, be ready to share something (anything!) that you were able to discover from this process
11. Steven老师课程时间、地点
5–7 年级 阅读写作
周二 6–8 pm
8-10 年级 阅读写作
周三 6-8 pm
(报名已满,新班时间待定)
10-12 年级阅读写作
周六 4:30-6:30 pm
SAT 单词语法
周六 9:30-11:30 am
SAT 习题训练讲解
周日 4:30-6:30 pm
地点
5549 Dunbar St,Vancouver
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12. 小结
通过写作课程训练,学生们的思考和写作能力在稳步提升着,善于口头和书面表达,绝大部分毕业生认为这一训练对他们之后准备大学入学文书,以及为创造性写作构思,寻求有趣的人物和情节非常有帮助。有些学生在学校获得英文、社会学年级第一;有些写作竞赛获国际奖项;各种水平的学生都能有较大的收益,最重要的是,学生们学会深入思考。正如有些毕业生,临别专程看望老师时所言,不仅学到了写作技巧,而且改变和建立了他们人生观。
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