The document outlines the curriculum for a creative nonfiction course, detailing its assessment structure and learning competencies. It explores various literary genres within nonfiction, including biographies, autobiographies, personal narratives, and travel writing, while emphasizing the use of literary techniques to enhance factual storytelling. Additionally, it discusses the goals of creative nonfiction and the techniques specific to this genre, such as creative license, figurative language, and symbolism.

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2. SPECIALIZED SUBJECT/ ACADEMIC TRACK
WRITTEN WORKS 25%
PERFORMANCE TASKS 45%
QUARTERLY
ASSESSMENT
30%
TOTAL 100%
BASIS:
WW- quizzes, summative quiz, essays etc.
PT- oral recitation, presentation, projects, portfolios and behavior.
QA- EXAM

3. CLASSROOM RULES

4. Do you
know

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12. Learning
Competency
• Identify dominant
literary conventions of
a particular genre
(HUMSS_CNF11/12-Ia-1)
• Compare and contrast
how the elements are
used in the different
genres
(HUMSS_CNF11/12-Ia-2)

13. SUBJECT DESCRIPTION
• Focusing on formal elements and writing
techniques, including autobiography and
blogging, among others,
• The subject introduces the students to the
reading and writing of Creative Nonfiction as a
literary form.
• The subject develops in students skills in
reading, and thinking critically and creatively,

14. CREATIVE NONFICTION
• “True story well told”
• The words “creative” and “nonfiction”
describe the form. The word “creative”
refers to the use of literary craft, the
techniques fiction writers, playwrights or
poets employ to present nonfiction –
factually accurate prose about real
people and events in a dramatic manner.

15. CREATIVE NONFICTION
• employs the literary techniques usually
associated with fiction or poetry to report on
actual persons, places, or events.
• The genre of creative nonfiction (also known as
literary nonfiction) is broad enough to include
travel writing, nature writing, science writing,
sports writing, biography, autobiography,
memoir, the interview, and both the familiar and
personal essay.

16. CREATIVE NONFICTION
•The goal is to make nonfiction
stories read like fiction so that
your readers will be interested
as they are in fantasy.

17. EXAMPLES
• "Coney Island at Night" by James
Huneker
• "An Experiment in Misery" by
Stephen Crane
• "In Mammoth Cave" by John
Burroughs
• "Outcasts in Salt Lake City" by
James Weldon Johnson
• "Rural Hours" by Susan Fenimore
Cooper
• "The San Francisco Earthquake"
by Jack London

18. LITERARY
GENRES
Quarter 3

19. What is
a
literary
genre?
•A genre is a
particular
style or type of
writing.

20. MAJOR GENRES
Fiction Non-Fiction
Imagination
Entertainment
Characters, Events and Places
ARE NOT REAL.
Real Events
Real People
Fact-based Writing

21. LITERARY
GENRES OF
NON-FICTION

22. Biographies, Autobiographies,
and Memoirs
• focuses on the life story of a particular
subject.
• Biographies-written in the third person
about someone other than the author.
• Autobiographies and memoirs are
written by the subject themselves.

23. Biographies, Autobiographies, and
Memoirs
• While autobiographies and
memoirs are, by necessity, written
by someone who is currently alive
at the time of the writing,
biographies may profile subjects
both living and dead.

24. Personal Narrative
•a prose relating personal
experience and opinion to a
factual narrative.

25. Travelogue and Travel
Guides
• Travelogues are a close cousin of
memoirs, and they recount an author’s
specific experience traveling somewhere.
• Travel guides tend to be more instructive,
offering suggestions and practical
information for travelers bound for a
particular destination.

26. Self-help and
Instruction
• Self-help books are some of the best-selling
books in the world of nonfiction.
• business success, buoying confidence,
staying organized, relationship advice,
dieting, and financial management.

27. Humor and
Commentary
• analysis and reflection on real-world events
are distilled through the prism of an
author’s point of view.
• can be humorous, sometimes it’s political,
and sometimes it’s purely meditative.
• objective events, both present and
historical.

28. Analyzing
themes and
techniques
used in a text
Quarter 3: module 1

29. Creative
Writing
Creative
Nonfiction

30. • literary styles and techniques to create factual and
accurate narratives of events and individuals.
• literary nonfiction or narrative nonfiction.
• a hybrid of nonfiction components and literary features
which are done in essay form and story form with
setting, rhetorical patterns, characterization, concepts,
facts (not just beauty of words), and researched truths.
• narration, explanation, and exposition-engaged to the
experiences
Creative
nonfiction

31. • ultimate goal: author to communicate well-researched details tailored like
that of a fiction.
• accuracy and style.
• broad categories under creative nonfiction:
A. Biographical narratives (e.g. full length biography, literary
biography, historical biography, profile, character sketch,
and interview story);
B. Autobiographical narratives (e.g. full-length autobiography,
multi-volume autobiography, memoir, diary, and journal);
C. Personal and informal essay (e.g. literary reportage, descriptive
essay, and reflective essay.)
D. Other types of creative nonfiction (travel writing, food writing,
nature writing, testimonio, blog, and Facebook status
report.
Creative
nonfiction

32. Literary
technique
s
Creative nonfiction

33. Literary
techniques
 There are techniques used in
creative nonfiction that can also be
used also in fiction. However, the
techniques listed are features mainly
used for creative nonfiction.

34. Literary
techniques
 are definite and intentional use of
words that the authors use to
convey the message of the text.

35. 1. CREATIVE
LICENSE
 Author exaggerates or alters the objective realities
for enhancing and clarifying the meaning in the
context of fiction.
 author’s freedom to go away with the conventions
or rules in writing.
 For example, the phrase “you and I” is used instead
of “you and me” in order to create and effect.
Another is applying small distortions as a way of
handling factual materials.

36. 2. FIGURES OF
SPEECH
 figurative language
 intended meaning is different from the actual
meaning of the words.
 Examples are simile, hyperbole,
personification, onomatopoeia, oxymoron,
and lot more.

37. 3. SYMBOLISM
 The use of objects or images to represent ideas
 A symbol is something that is tangible and visible
and the idea that it symbolizes is abstract although
the meaning sometimes may vary.
 For example in the statement “I was born when the
locusts came,” the word locust signifies problem as
it is associated with pests.
 “rock” = signify strength; “couch” = comfort; and
“dove” = peace.

38. 4. EXPOSITION
 author interrupts the story to explain
something or to give important background
information.
 A memoir entitled “A Virtuous Woman”.
Notice that the second paragraph provides
additional knowledge about the writer’s
mother.

39. 4. EXPOSITION

40. 5. DIALOG
 characters speak to one another and is
used to substitute for exposition.
 many of the characters thoughts and
actions are being revealed.

41. 5. DIALOG

42. 6. IMAGERY
 This refers to the language that describes in
detail appealing to the senses like visual
imagery and sound imagery.
 The images are those that can be seen,
touched, heard, smelled, and tasted.

43. 7. IRONY
 There are three types of irony: verbal, dramatic, and
situational.
 Verbal irony is about the disparity between the words
of the characters and what they meant;
 Situational irony is the opposite of what the
characters or readers’ expectation and what actually
happens;
 Dramatic irony is the contrast of what the character
knows and what the reader knows.
 “The cop was caught parking on a wrong side” is
an example of situational irony.

47. CREATIVE
NONFICTION
ANALYSIS
ACTIVITY

48. As a student of public school, what
struggles have you faced and
conquered before?
What motivated you to study and
keep going?