This craft essay shares memories of the author's hometown and childhood experiences. It describes witnessing floodwaters covering a fishing dock and walking across it with his father. The essay then reflects on how the small town of one square mile seems larger in memory, as the author can vividly picture landmarks and areas. Though the author now lives hundreds of miles away and the place has changed in a generation, strong memories make it feel immediately accessible. For example, the author recalls in detail a long-gone great-grandparents' home through sensory memories of sights, smells, tastes, and feelings from spending time there.

1. Republic of the Philippines
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Region IV A-CALABARZON
Division of Laguna
Santa Cruz
SANTA CRUZ INTEGRATED NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Sitio IV, Brgy. Oogong, Santa Cruz, Laguna
CREATIVE WRITING
Quarter 2 Module 4 Lesson 1
The Different Orientations
of Creative Writing
Prepared by:
AMIHAN COMENDADOR GRANDE

2. Quarter 2 Module 4 Lesson 1
The Different
Orientations
of Creative Writing

3. In this module, the learners create and design an online portfolio or
group blog on the outputs produced in poetry, fiction, scripts in a
play or drama, applying ICT skills or any appropriate multimedia
forms.
After studying this module, the learners will be able to:
1. write a craft essay demonstrating awareness of and sensitivity to
the
different literary and/or sociopolitical contexts of creative writing;
2. create an online portfolio or group blog on the outputs
produced in
poetry, fiction, and script writing; and
3. have an understanding of the different orientations of creative
writing

4. LESSON 1 WRITE A CRAFT ESSAY
At the end of this lesson, the learners are expected to:
1. define the word “essay”; and
2. describe the structure of an essay; and
3. write a craft essay creatively.

5. Instructions: Recall what you learned in the past lessons. Read
and answer the following statements. Write the letter of your
answer in your activity notebook.
1. The setting of the short story “Footnote to Youth” is _________.
a. City b. Village c. Farm d. School
2. Who is the author of the short story “Footnote to Youth”?
a. Jose Rizal b. Jose Garcia Villa c. Jose Villanueva d. Juan Luna
3. It is defined as a note at the foot of the page, often used to give additional
information to the reader regarding certain words or phrases in the text.
a. Page b. Footnote c. Bibliography d. Footer
4.Essay is a piece of writing, usually from an author’s personal point of view.
a. True b. False

6. 5. It is a thing that suggests more than its literal meaning. It uses objects to signify another level
of meaning.
a. Insight b. Moral c. Symbol d. Point-of-View
6. A structure of an essay where it should have a good opening paragraph.
a. the Body b. the Introduction
c. Conclusion d. None of the choices
7. Speeches, journalism, blogging, and free writing are examples of what type of writing?
a. Technical writing b. Script writing
c. Imaginative writing d. None of the choices
8. It is the main idea that the writer is trying to put across to the reader and it is the important
aspect that unifies a story.
a. Plot b. Setting c. Tone d. Theme
9. It is the reference to or application of a literary, media, or social “text” within another
literary, media, or social “text”.
a. Essay b. Intertextuality c. Novel c. Dialogue

7. 10. An interruption of a work’s chronology to describe or present an incident that
occurred prior to the main time frame of a work’s action.
a. foreshadowing b. recall c. flashback d. None of the choices
11. It is used to describe differences between groups of people relating to their political
beliefs, social class, etc.
a. social status b. sociopolitical c. social d. political
12. A feeling of uncertainty as to the outcome of the story, and it is used to build
interest and excitement on the part of the audience.
a. conflict b. exposition c. suspense d. None of the choices
13. The structure of an essay which presents a strong argument or evidence to be
more convincing to the readers.
a. the introduction b. the Body c. the conclusion d. All of the above
14. Essay writing requires knowledge in creative writing.
a. True b. False

8. 15. It is a literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story
a. Flashback b. Foreshadowing c. Plot d. theme
What is Essay?
The word essay is defined as a piece of writing, usually from the author’s personal point of view, on a
particular subject or issue. Essays are non-fictional but often subjective and can also include
narrative.
Writing an essay means fashioning a coherent set of ideas into an argument. Because
essays are essentially linear—they offer one idea at a time—they must present their ideas in the
order that makes most sense to a reader. Successfully structuring an essay means attending to a
reader's logic.
The focus of such an essay predicts its structure. It dictates the information readers need to
know and the order in which they need to receive it. Thus, your essay's structure is necessarily
unique to the main claim you are making.
Craft essay is done through freewriting, expressing ones ideas and interpretations of a
situation.
Here is an example of a craft essay: (you may also check on this link for more
samples of craft essay, https://appalachianreview.net/tag/craft-essay/)

9. Bearing Witness
20 September 2019 Robert Erle Barham Summer 2019
When I was a boy, the bayou Bonne Idee flooded. I remember because my father and I
walked on water. We had driven to the edge of our farm and discovered that the flood had
enveloped our fishing dock, and when my father crossed the wooden deck just below the
bayou’s surface, I followed beside him. We moved slowly, fearing the boards might have
fallen away, but with every step, the pier met our feet and buoyed us across the silty
opacity. Looking back toward the bank, we stood atop the bayou with the cold spring
water swirling around us. The incongruity was thrilling.
One square mile. When I think of my hometown, it seems much larger than its physical
size. As with this memory of the Bonne Idee (the “good thought” that its name recalls), all
of it is familiar, and I can map the landmarks and contours of the land—south from our
farm into town, down Oak Street, over the rise of the railroad tracks, past the churches,
Newtown Service Station, the Baptist cemetery and out of town across miles of farmland.

10. Now I live hundreds of miles away from where I grew up. My parents no longer live there, and
the place is transformed in just one generation. Yet my memory is populated with its people
and places. Like the mnemonic landscapes from classical antiquity, all of it is immediately
accessible and very real in recollection.
It’s odd how something that no longer remains—at least not as it was—can have such reality
in memory. I think of my great-grandparents’ home that no longer exists, but that I remember
in totality: its dimensions, textures, rooms, and furnishings, the view from each window. It was
full of sensory associations like the thick smell of bacon and biscuits that filled the house in
the early mornings; the sting of showers on sunburned skin in their brightly colored bathroom;
the taste of watermelon with salt, the way my German-American great-grandfather prepared
it, which I ate standing barefoot on their patio in the evening, the concrete still warm from the
summer sun. If I close my eyes, I can pace the floors, see the pictures on the walls, feel the
carpet under my feet.