This document contains the content outline for a Writing class at Colegio Las Cumbres for Senior 3 students. It outlines 3 main topics that will be covered over the school year: [1] Essay Writing, focusing on opinion essays and illustrating poems; [2] Descriptive Writing, describing landscapes, personality, and using adjectives and adverbs; [3] Analysis and Writing Gothic Stories, writing short stories and poems to create frightening atmospheres.

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Esquema de Contenidos para el Período de Orientación, evaluación y promoción - cierre
Diciembre 2012
Asignatura: Writing.
Curso: Senior 3
Profesor: Pilar Pando.
Contenido Nodal Sub-temas inlcuidos en el contenido nodal
Writing opinion essays, for and against essays. Task: Can we achieve
1º Trimestre
happiness with money?
Essay Writing.
Writing and illustrating a poem on happiness and money.
Summary writing.
Writing diary entries.
Adjectives describing landscapes and the natural environment.
2º Trimestre
Adverbs of place, manner and time.
Descriptive Writing. Adjectives describing personality and physical appearance.
Reading descriptives extracts from "My Family and other Animals".
(chapters 1,2,3 and 4)
The use of linking words and connectors.
Writing a short story: a ghost story.
3º Trimestre
Analysis and Writing Gothic Writing for effect: creating a frightening atmosphere.
stories Creative writing: writing a gothic poem.
The use of linking words and connectors.
Writing diary entries: A prison break journal.