CREATIVE WRITING
at the Ruth Asawa School of the Arts in San Francisco
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Tag: CWII
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The Creative Writing II poetry unit has spanned over the course of the past month. Our artist in residence, Emily Wolahan, structured the six-week unit in a refreshing way: every other week, we read poetry and essays concerning poetry at home, then discuss them in class. Every week in between, we workshop the poems we’ve…
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I had heard the phrase “Creative Writing One and Creative Writing Two” tossed around before, so when Heather brought it up at the beginning of class I wasn’t completely surprised. But being a freshman, I had no idea what it meant. It turns out, midway through the semester the underclassmen and upperclassmen separate into two…
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As I enter my junior year I have realized the transition from being an underclassman to an upperclassman. Although the shift was subtle at first, the piling homework and endless SAT prep soon had me face to face with the responsibility of being an 11th grader. Even if I don’t want it, I’m getting older,…
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by Hazel (’13) We recently finished our Poetry through Jazz unit in Creative Writing II. It was a new approach in that it gave our writing a historical context, both in terms of subject matter and style. But the one thing that will really stick with me was something that Justin (our artist in residence)…
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