Ms. Douglas and student Arianna Rowe explained the WMS Creative Writing elective on Friday & Tuesday. WMS students can take this elective and find their inner creativity.

Ms. Douglas explained how Creative Writing can benefit a student. She said, “I think it gives them the opportunity to kind of dig deeper into themselves, to write things that they want to write about as opposed to things that their teachers are telling them to write about.”

Ms. Douglas claimed that she wanted to bring Creative Writing as an intro class to WMS “for kids who really love writing just to kind of get away from the typical curriculum from language arts and to have a little bit of fun.”

Students in the Creative Writing elective are able to take any fairy tale and transform it themselves, which Ms. Douglas calls a fractured fairy tale. 

Additionally, one of Ms. Douglas’ students, Rowe, claimed that she wasn’t excited about having the Creative Writing elective at first. She said that she’s not much of a creative writer, and that she’s “more of a math person. But this class has made [her] challenge [herself], and that’s what [she] felt [her] confidence in.”

Rowe talked about what she was most excited about in this elective, and she stated, “The thing I was most excited about was my comic book project, that was really great.”

Ms. Douglas claimed that her favorite part of the Creative Writing elective is that she gets to meet most of the students in eighth grade, even if she doesn’t have part of them for language arts. 

She said it is “fantastic” that she gets to meet even more students in the school after each short marking period, because she gets to connect with them, and it’s a lot of fun for her.