ACTIVITY

• I WANT TO BE THIS SUPERHERO…

Task 1. Watch Me!
• Direction: Watch the lyric video of “Something Just Like This,” by The
Chainsmokers and Coldplay. Then, answer the following questions:
• Who are the famous characters mentioned in the song?
• What are the similarities of those characters mentioned?
• What do these lines infer?

Lyrics:
“I'm not looking for somebody
With some superhuman gifts
Some superhero
Some fairytale blisst
Just something I can turn to
Somebody I can kiss”
Question:

• Creative writing made Achilles, Hercules, Spiderman, and Batman

exist. People use writing to express their joys, fears, sadness and
other feelings in a poetic or prosaic ways. Why do we need stories
and poems?
DEFINITION:
• Creative writing is writing that expresses the writer's thoughts and
feelings in an imaginative, often unique, and poetic way. Creative
writing is guided more by the writer's need to express feelings and
ideas than by restrictive demands of factual and logical progression of
expository writing.
Characteristics of imaginative writing:
• 1. Clarity: It doesn’t confuse people. (This sounds so obvious, but you’d be surprised at the
number of writers who think they have to be clever or coy or literary which just leaves the reader
in the dark.)
• 2. Form: It has a beginning, a middle and an ending. The beginning draws readers in and the
ending is satisfying. This holds true for fiction, memoir, personal essays, autobiographies, and
stories for kids. Occasionally a writer who’s a genius ignores this, but most of us aren’t geniuses
and can’t ignore it.
• 3. Emotion: It’s emotionally charged and the reader cares what happens to the protagonist. We
either cry or laugh or are scared or feel something.
• 4. Meaning and connection: It’s about people or situations the reader can connect to. Either a
story we enter into with the author for entertainment, or a subject or emotion that we too are
dealing with or want to learn about, or can find humor in. It is not a story about the author gazing
at his or her belly button. In some way the writing connects to the rest of the world.
• 5. Language: The author cares deeply about words and their power.No overblown adjectives or
adverbs (and only those absolutely necessary for information.)No flabby cliches. The author loves
language and hones and rewrites every sentence.
Techniques used in creative writing include:
• Character development
• Plot development
• Vivid setting
• Underlying theme
• Point of view
• Dialogue
• Anecdotes
• Metaphors and similes
• Figures of speech
• Imaginative language
• Emotional appeal
• Heavy description
TECHNICAL WRITING
• Technical writing is a type of writing where the author is writing
about a particular subject that requires direction, instruction, or
explanation. This style of writing has a very different purpose and
different characteristics than other writing styles such as creative
writing, academic writing or business writing.
Uses for Technical Writing
• Technical writing is straightforward, easy to understand explanations
and/or instructions dealing with a particular subject. It is an efficient and
clear way of explaining something and how it works.

The subject of technical writing can either be:

• Tangible - Something that can be seen or touched, such as a computer or

software program, or information on how to assemble a piece of furniture.
• Abstract - Something that involved a series of steps that aren't related to a
tangible object. One example of this might be steps required to complete
an office process.
Some examples of technical writing include:

• Instruction manuals
• Policy manuals
• Process manuals
• User manuals
• Reports of analysis
• Instructions for assembling a product
• A summarization of a long report that highlights and shortens the
most important elements