Finegan Kruckemeyer

Writing Workshop 2020

The following notes and prompts are from the Literacy in Action workshop, which was unfortunately cancelled due to COVID-19. Finegan has kindly provided his notes for this workshop for Drama SA members.

The writing class was planned to be a journey through an age-old art form. An exercise in inventing the skeleton of a play.

The ideas will support teachers to engage students in writing as one, as some and as many, they will fashion landscapes and invent populations.

The prompts guide students to work from the macro to the micro, imagine worlds that hold countries, and countries that hold counties, and counties that hold mountains, and mountains that hold cities, and cities that hold citizens – a litany of citizens.

The process will ask them to make the final authorial leap, entering into the mind and heart of a protagonist, and writing about what they find.

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