creative writing assignment

• Nederlands
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 1

What are we going to do today?

Practice your creative writing skills

Goals

Improve your writing skills

Creative writing

Personal emotions

Different emotions

Describing emotions

Why is this assignment important?

You enrich your vocabulary

(using different words for the same emotion)

You learn how to write a story

(and of course, you get a wriing test)

What does the music add?

Without music an exciting film is not as exciting as with. Try it.

First watch the trailer on the following slide without sound and then with sound.

What was more exciting, with or without music? Why?

It has to be a good match

Watch the movie on the next slide, then answer the question.

Did you think the music was a good match with the clip? Why yes, or why not?

Assignment

You're going to watch a fragment. Do you think the music goes well with what you see?

Does the music go well with the video footage? Explain your answer

How to describe emotions

Vertaal: mooi

1. beautiful
2. nice
3. sweet
4. great

interessant

1. uninteresting
2. worthwile
3. appealing
4. lovely

geweldig

1. dull
2. stuffy
3. incredible
4. dreary

spannend

1. lame
2. tedious
3. dull
4. tense

somber

1. gloomy
2. cheery
3. merry
4. jolly

vrolijk

1. dark
2. bleak
3. cheerful
4. grim

bang

1. spooked
2. frightened
3. fearful
4. terrified

Assignment

listen to the following fragments

Write down five words (per fragment) that describe how you felt while listening.

You do this after each fragment 

feelings song 1

feelings song 2

Final assignment

Listen to the three fragments

For each fragment write down as many (English)words as you can think of which describe your feeling while listening (at least 7 per fragment. Write them down on a piece of paper. You'll need them later on.

There is no text, so you cannot be influenced.

Final assignment

Choose one of the three fragments.

Write a story that goes well with the music.

Upload your story to google classroom (creative writing assignment)

At least 200 and no more than 500 words.

Check your spelling, interpunction and word order (wie doet wat waar wanneer).

Hand in with classroom, you get 7 seven days to finish it. 

The story:

is made up

not about a writer / music

needs to go well with the music

tips

use paragraphs

check spelling

check use of full stops, capital letters, etc.

read your story out loud to someone else

Do not forget

to write down which music fragment you have chosen

!