Creative Writing and the Internet
New York Writers-Teaching Writing with Technology
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Course Description:
Objectives:
* In this class, students will read and write about works written by writers who were either born, or lived in New York or have written about New York including known and not well-known writers from the past and present. We will appreciate, critique, review and discover the American (or more specifically New York )Literature that high school students love to read; and we will invite writers into our classroom by joining our discussion forum. There will be an authentic dialogue between writers and high school students- the writers and the readers. We will make connections with magazines such as Times and New Yorker, through which we can establish a learning a bridge between writers and public high school classroom. We will also invite Barns &Noble as the liaison (since they host live lectures by different writers) to help us build a writers' network. Each student will be connected with one writer receiving and sharing ideas about writing.
* Writers will be informed to join our classroom discussion on their books and provide instant feedback. We will also invite unknown writers to publish excerpts of their work on our NY Writers' web site and let students read their work and respond to them.

Materials:
 American Literature, the Internet Materials, other NY writers' works

Requirements for students who participate in this program: (one year?)
Students need to have passed the English Regents exam for the graduation. This course will offer one regular English credit each term but will provide no specific Regents preparations. Students need to be articulate (to interview writers), love to read, and are not necessarily strong writers but are interested in writing or willing to be engaged in writing.

Skills students will learn:
* Responding to and writing about literature
* Interview skills
* Creative writing skills
* Desktop publishing
* College application skills
* Team work skills
* Social skills (decorum)

Products:
* Discussion Forum
* Individual web sites
* Class web site called NY Writers
* A network of  NY writers
* A periodical on Responding to Literature will be published if financially possible.