English 10 Core Competency Self-Assessment

Creative Thinking

Creative Thinking

I demonstrated creative thinking through the poetry unit project we did in my English 10 Creative Writing class. When creating my artifact, I brainstormed the different ways that I or those around me have experienced love in different ways. I took different experiences I’ve had to generate the lines of the poems. I also took inspiration from different forms of media that I’ve consumed over the year that involved love and romance to paint a picture as to what love could be like from a variety of perspectives. A strategy I found when trying to write this poem was to just write “badly”. I would disregard any grammar rules and just let my mind run wild as I wrote down everything that would come to mind, no matter how bad it was. Once I decided that I had enough written down, I would go back and edit what I had written and try to fit it into lines of poetry that made sense and seemed cohesive. This poem was written in free verse, meaning it had no rhyme scheme or general pattern, so to improve for next time, I would like to branch out and try to write poems using more rhyme schemes or writing a wider variety of poems.

English 10 Core Competency Self-Assessment

Creative Thinking

My Artifact: Quick Write

I demonstrated creative thinking skills through one of the quick writes we do every Friday in English class. As we only had 15 minutes to think of and write a story, I needed to be fast in gathering my ideas and continue the prompt that we had been given. When writing, I immersed myself in the story and imagined myself in the character’s position, thinking of the five senses that my character would use and what he was experiencing. I drew inspiration from many action/adventures books and movies that I watched before to think about how I wanted my story to go. I got stuck a few times when trying to write due to feeling the pressure of a limited amount of time, but when I did, I would just continue to brainstorm ideas and would try not to let myself be stuck for too long. With perseverance, I was able to use the creative thinking skills I’ve developed over the years to create a story that I was satisfied with, and I will continue to grow these skills to become a better writer in the future.