The Creative Writer Level 4: Becoming a Writer

The Creative Writer Level 4: Becoming a Writer by Boris Fishman

A complete creative writing course for 8th-10th graders with so much to like! I'll just list below all the great features of this program:

• The price is amazing! And you get a truly quality course!
• 36 weeks of lessons. You get 1 lesson per week, so you can break it however you want: do it all in a single day, or break into smaller daily assignments. 
• Teacher helps are included in the back of the book.
• The lessons are interesting, incremental, easy to implement, easy to understand.
• The book is non-consumable, so you can use it with multiple students in your home.

Though The Creative Writer Level 4: Becoming a Writer can stand alone (no prerequisite), it DOES build on the first three volumes. If your student is a beginner, you may want to start with with one of the earlier levels. Like the other levels, the first weeks of level 4 are a study of fiction writing. The second part is a study of writing poetry.

Becoming a Writer also walks students through the transition from study to practice, broadening the series' focus by discussing the writing life--how to find and submit to literary journals, how to develop discipline, and how to persevere in the face of rejection.

Overall, this course is fantastic! A great investment!