Korea gets a long winter vacation off from school and my teenage son is already bored. Yesterday my son pleaded with me to teach him creative writing and essay writing. He said, "You can be my Mr. 'Miyagi' and I can be your 'Danielson'." I am preoccupied with work and probably a million things. At first I refused saying that his motive was wrong. He wanted to learn writing only to win a writing contest. Then when I thought about it again I realized that it wasn't often that he asked me to teach him something.
My son has no problem with listening and speaking languages, but when it comes to writing he freezes. It's part of the Education curriculum in Korea. Both English and Korean are taught like math. Students memorize patterns and regurgitate them on the test. The students with the best hurling power are then chosen to go to the top universities. The other students are left behind to deliver for Coupang Eats. Not many really learn how to think or write. So he is asking me to teach him writing before he goes to college.
One of the weaknesses I see in young writers is lack of consistency. To help with consistency I decided to create two ten minute assignments. One for the morning and one for the afternoon. One assignment is for creative writing and the next assignment is for essay writing.
Use this word to create smaller words. How many words can you create. List the words that you see.
Now that the list is complete it is time to get to work.
Define resolve. Think of three example from history, literature or current events in which resolve led to failure or success.
That's all I got for him today. Maybe he will get on Hive and answer the assignment. If he really is Danielson then the next step for him is to complain to me why he has to do this.
All pictures here are from my camera and I have the right to use them. I was tempted to try PeakD's AI image creator. I will try that another day, but for today this is all my creation 
You can see where it is going. The second assignment is turning into an essay. The first assignment will head towards different kinds of creative writing according to prompts. It should be fun^^ I hope we are consistent.
Happy New Year
