[Alison]

My high school student will be starting with Jonathan Rogers’ creative writing courses (all four) this fall and I was wondering how others who have used this course have graded their student’s work.

I’ve perused the course and see that it has an abundance of writing exercises. Which of these exercises have you used as graded assignments? Or has anyone created any assignments of their own?

I’ll be using this course with Grammar for Writers to assign 1 high school credit..

Thankful for any advice!

[Caroline Bange]

I am in the same boat, Alison! I would love to hear any input about grading for this course. This is our first time ever using Compass Classroom and I am using this as a high school credit.

Thanks!

Caroline

[Elizabeth Miller]

We just started the creative writing class, too. For grading purposes I have decided to assess on whether or not my child followed the prompt. I then look at mechanics. Creative writing is tough to grade as it is more subjective. I need to make some kind of rubric to follow to be more consistent.

[Rebekah]

That sounds like such good advice. Especially since teens are so fragile about their creative work and it can be so easy to critique all the fun out. But if we can give them hard and fast rules—never start a sentence with a conjunction. Never any incomplete sentences. Shorten all your paragraphs with no needless, rambling explanations when a simple three-word sentence will suffice and contribute power instead of diluting it by saying the same thing over and over in different ways. Lol

[Julie]

I so agree! I wanted a more free-flowing class as the rest of his subjects are fairly rigid in content. I’m hoping he will have fun with this class.

[Julie]

This is helpful. I wanted to use the creative writing for my high schooler as well and was unsure how to apply the credits. Your plan to combine it with Grammar for Writers is a great idea. Thanks!