Creative Writing Department Presents:

Welcome!

To our Spring Coffeehouse!

Honoring our senior class of 2018

Welcome!

Fiction Workshop

Make a short list of stories or books that you love.
In your opinion, what makes a good story good to read?

All stories need...

• Characters (protagonist (main character), antagonist or conflict, supporting characters, etc.)
• Plot (inciting incident, rising action, turning point/crisis, enlightenment, climax, resolution)
• Setting (description of place, time, season, weather, location)
• Theme (4 themes in literature: life, death, love, nature)
• POV (1st person, 2nd person, 3rd person)

• 500 Word Short Story
• Green Light/Red Light

Welcome to our Spring Coffeehouse: Featuring the Class of 2015!

Senior Class of 2015

Thomas Hart Benton, "Wreck of the Ole '97"

2014-2015 Creative Writing Students, Contest Winners:

• Grace Keller, SOKOL poetry, 1st Place; Gannon University Berwyn Moore Poetry
• Zoe Hodge, SOKOL fiction, 1st Place
• Olivia Spenard, SOKOL poetry, 3rd Place
• Scholastic Writing Award Winners (Regional):
• Alexander Christie         Gold, short story 
• Isabella Watts                 Silver, flash fiction
• Kyra Majewski               Silver, flash fiction
• Khampasong Ithavong    Silver, Short Story
• Honorable Mentions:
• Ben Zuegel                     Short Story
• Nathan Pembrook           Poetry
• Tamaron McKnight        Flash Fiction
• Ethan Gresko                  Dramatic script
• Austin Hammond           Flash Fiction
• Thiery Haynesworth       Poetry
• Karina Le                        Humor
• Frances Brown                Poetry
• Grace Gorman-Keller      Poetry
• Jocelyn Brillian               Flash Fiction
• Tyshay Bradshaw            Short Story

Original films:

• Jeremy & the Jewel Thief by Ethan Gresko & Nathan Pembrook
• Documentary on John Locke by Ethan Gresko
• Thomas Hobbes by Jahni Rattray
• Immanuel Kant by Carly Swift-Horth
• Jean Jacques Rousseau by Gena Driscol-Bradley
• Roland Barth by Nikki Ehmann

10th Grade Poet Documentaries:

• Marianne Moore by Frieda Jones
• Amy Lowell by Grace Conheady
• Mud-luscious by Cameron Bennett
• W.H. Auden by Olivia Spenard 

Meeting today: Little Bee & Mudbound

Review of Little Bee by Chris Cleave

Review of Mudbound by Hillary Jordan

Dante Club & Hunger Games

Dante Club review. New York Times Review.

Matthew Pearl

the Hunger Games.
Suzanne Collins.

PD Hours & Dates

Please complete and submit your PD hours for our Collegial Circle (Contemporary Literature Reading Group) or SOTA Book Club.

We met this year on the following dates:
10/28/09
12/02/09
1/13/10
3/18/10
4/14/10
5/12/10

You may take up to 24 hours. Please adjust based on how often you attended meetings (or commented on the blog), but remember that reading a book takes several hours per book. We trust you to give yourself the # you deserve.

Please post comments/suggestions how the book club can be strengthened or more useful.

Please post comments/suggestions for SUMMER READING selections!

Upcoming Dates!

Upcoming dates for Book Club:

April 14, and May 12.

Info on the books we are reading will follow.