First Creative Writing Contest in Lecce

And the winners are...

For best plot: 910 by France

For most original short story: The Bet by Bulgaria

For best ending: Mater Morbi by Italy

For best style: Unwept Tears by Turkey

Congratulations to all the winners and the readers!

In France, an award ceremony will be organized soon to congratulate and reward the two writers of 910, in the presence of Mr Denjean, our headmaster.

Photos coming soon :-) 

Meeting in Lecce, Italy.

Find the programme of the meeting HERE. 

 

Thank you to all the organizers and participants for this great meeting! 

Special thanks to Lina Bonatesta, the Italian coordinator, for her great professionalism and kindness!

 

Click HERE to watch wonderful photos of the meeting on Gianny Carluccio's website. 

Short Story Collection n°1

Here are the two French short stories selected for the writing contest in Lecce: 

910 by Rachel and Samuel

The Eyes of Death by Iliès


Here are other short stories written by the students involved in YEWS:


The Liar by Julia

A Single Ticket by Luana and Yasmina

A Trip of Hope by Louis and Quentin


Congratulations to the winners and the other students for their very good work!


Learn more about the paintings which inspired these short stories HERE. 

Learn more about the other short stories in competition HERE.

Evaluating short fiction

In a few days, you will have to select the two best short stories that will be in competition in Lecce.

It is time to think about the evaluation criteria.

What makes a good short story? What destroys a short story? What makes a good reader?

Here is food for thought!

Next Meeting in Italy, April 10-15 2013

Here are the names of the students who have been selected to participate in the next meeting, in Lecce:

• Raphaël Bracque
• Théo Baylon
• Maxime Enjolras
• Luana Terrasse
• Kenza Khennouche
• Louis Isse
• Mélody Chareyre
• John Weir

Congratulations to all of them!

They will be accompanied by teacher Marie-Laure Simon and teacher Gladys Dousson.
Together, they will meet some of the students and teachers that take part in the project in Bulgaria, Turkey and Italy.

Among the different tasks they will have to perform, they will have to select the best short stories of the first contest and reward them!

3 Videos of the Working Meeting in Bulgaria

Thanks to all of the Bulgarian students who created them! Great Job!




To see the two other videos click HERE.

First Creative Writing Contest: April 2013

It is time to start writing your short stories for the first contest in Italy!

You have just studied documents about New York City and immigration into the United States.

The final task* of this unit consists in writing an immigration short story inspired by one of the paintings selected by your Comenius classmates.

Creative Writing Process
1. In pairs, choose one of the paintings selected by your European classmates and use it to imagine a story.
Find the paintings here: http://yewsbookofknowledge.blogspot.fr
==> Think about the scenery, the people in the painting (who are they, what are they doing, why? How did they get there, where are they going? Describe them. Why do they wear those clothes (that shirt, that necklace, that glasses, or what else…)? Do those dirty shoes (or new shoes, new hat, etc.) mean something special to them? What are their names? What are they frowning/smiling at? 

==> Use all that you have learnt about New York City immigration into the USA to find inspiration and enrich you story.

2. You might need some examples to find inspiration.
==> Read the short stories given by your teacher. Which one do you prefer? Why? What about the opening / the ending? What about the characters? The tone?

3. You might need some tools to help you write a more interesting short story.
==> Read and use the different documents given by your teacher: Elements of Short Stories – How to Make Interesting Characters –  Story Opening – Plot Twists  
Find some of these documents here: http://yewscreativewritingworkshop.blogspot.fr
 
Editing Your Short Story
Once your short story is ready and the mistakes are corrected, you have to word process your text.
==> PLEASE, respect the following rules:
Font: Arial
Size: 12
Text format: justified
Margin: 2.5 
Line space: 1.5
Lines per page: 30
Maximum page number: 4
Page numbering: bottom center

Evaluation
==> The quality of the story and the quality of the language will be both evaluated. They will be published on this blog.

==> The two best short stories – chosen by your classmates and / or your teacher(s) – will be selected for the first creative writing contest in Italy where the four best ones will be awarded.

Good luck and work hard!
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* Objectifs pédagogiques
- Solliciter la créativité et l'imagination
- Eduquer le goût d'écrire pour accroître le plaisir de lire
- Ecrire dans le but d'être lu, apprécié ou critiqué
- Compléter l'approche rationnelle et analytique de la littérature par la pratique intuitive et sensible de la création littéraire
- Reconnaître et comprendre les caractéristiques et les contraintes formelles d'un genre littéraire par la pratique sensible de la création littéraire imitative de ce genre
- Placer la pratique institutionnelle de l'écriture en langue vivante dans une situation stimulante (participer à un concours littéraire, en connaître et en accepter les contraintes formelles et les critères de sélection)
- Acquérir des savoirs formels (stylistiques, lexicaux, grammaticaux, rédactionnels, bureautiques, etc.) motivés par les besoins que dicte l'acte individuel d'écriture
- Renforcer le sentiment de fierté devant l'oeuvre accompli