Prior experience played a major role in this creative writing unit. The students could easily relate to Harte and London writing about blizzards. Standard five addresses the writing process which we followed in the unit. I feel that the most important element of this unit is the relevancy to the students' lives. McCown also discusses Banduras views on modeling.
Modeled behavior can result in a variety of outcomes.
The observers capabilities and prior knowledge influence outcomes. Modeling is a source of motivation. Relevancy and modeling were the two main components of this creative writing unit. At the beginning of the year, Chris, a sophomore, had told me that he was not a writer, and that no matter what I tried to do, he would not be a writer. It was a 25-line poem on spring.