In this class; students deepen their written and oral communication capabilities through performance-focused creative writing. By learning and practicing writing devices and exploring different techniques and approaches to written work; students will expand their knowledge of authorship; voice; tone; and communication. Students will accomplish this through poetry; prose; essay; and story writing. When taking this class; students will develop their writing; creativity; speaking; logic; and storytelling skills; as well as their ability to analyze literature. Students who successfully accomplish this class will have a collection of publishable work.