Grade 11 Creative Composition 1

Content standard

The learner demonstrates understanding of personal creative nonfiction forms, structures, and elements to narrate lived experiences with authenticity and voice.

Performance standard

The learner composes, refines, and publishes a personal nonfiction narrative through a recursive composition process that incorporates feedback, reflection, and revision to express lived experience with authenticity, insight, and narrative technique. Autobiography, Memoir, Personal Narrative, Testimonio

Learning competencies (11)

• CRECO1-G11-Q1-01

  Distinguish creative nonfiction from fiction and expository nonfiction by analyzing content, language, voice, structure, and narrative intent.

• CRECO1-G11-Q1-02

  Explore the characteristics of hybrid forms of personal creative nonfiction to identify how creators blur genre boundaries in expressing identity and truth.

• CRECO1-G11-Q1-03

  Examine the role of memory, perspective, and emotion in shaping narrative truth.

• CRECO1-G11-Q1-04

  Identify distinguishing features of authorial style and personal voice across works to establish one’s voice (i.e., personal style, tone, personality, perspective).

• CRECO1-G11-Q1-05

  Compose original personal creative nonfiction (e.g., memoir, personal narrative) drawn from lived experience to explore selfhood, growth, and insight.

• CRECO1-G11-Q1-06

  Develop a consistent and authentic voice through diction, tone, and structural experimentation.

• CRECO1-G11-Q1-07

  Apply narrative techniques, such as sensory detail, pacing, dialogue, and reflection, to convey emotional truth and complexity.

• CRECO1-G11-Q1-08

  Apply self-assessment, peer, and teacher feedback in revising drafts for coherence, impact, and ethical representation.

• CRECO1-G11-Q1-09

  Adapt different forms of delivery (bimodal or multimodal) and platforms (media) to present one’s own personal creative nonfiction to various audiences.

• CRECO1-G11-Q1-10

  Reflect on how personal memory, identity, and experience influence narrative choices and voice.

• CRECO1-G11-Q1-11

  Assess one’s evolving voice by reviewing early drafts, peer feedback, and journal entries.

Content standard

The learner demonstrates deep understanding of poetic elements, structures, and devices; explores how form, imagery, sound, and language to make meaning, convey emotion, and express self in poetry.

Performance standard

The learner composes, revises, and publishes original poems through a sustained composition process, experimenting with form, sound, and voice to create emotionally resonant poetry, culminating in creative presentation across media formats. Lyric, Narrative, Contemporary and Traditional Form, Digital Poetry

Learning competencies (11)

• CRECO1-G11-Q2-01

  Distinguish key features of poetry based on ideas, structure, language, and purpose.

• CRECO1-G11-Q2-02

  Compare how poets purposefully use and adapt structure and language in traditional, contemporary, and digital poetic forms.

• CRECO1-G11-Q2-03

  Identify how poets use and play with conventions of genre to convey emotion, theme, or commentary.

• CRECO1-G11-Q2-04

  Examine stylistic differences among poets and how they establish their individual voices.

• CRECO1-G11-Q2-05

  Recognize ethical considerations (e.g., AI attribution, plagiarism, and poetic borrowing and influence) in developing one’s style.

• CRECO1-G11-Q2-06

  Compose original poems selecting appropriate forms (e.g., free verse, sonnet, spoken word).

• CRECO1-G11-Q2-07

  Apply self-assessment, peer, and teacher feedback in revising drafts for coherence, impact, and ethical representation.

• CRECO1-G11-Q2-08

  Incorporate ideas or inspiration from studied works and poets while maintaining original expression.

• CRECO1-G11-Q2-09

  Adapt different forms of delivery (bimodal or multimodal) and platforms (media) to present one’s own poems to various audiences.

• CRECO1-G11-Q2-10

  Reflect on how personal voice, inspiration, and ethical considerations shape one’s poetry.

• CRECO1-G11-Q2-11

  Discuss personal insights on the craft, processes, and challenges of poetic creation.