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Offline Rhetorical

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Re: Story writing: my most successful class in 6 months
« Reply #20 on: November 21, 2011, 10:07:25 am »
Tried it with my A level 3rd graders and the stories were just too nonsensical and disjointed + the students had to be continually coaxed in to speaking English TT
Just too low level  :'(
Hopefully I'll be able to use this lesson somewhere else, I just love the concept!
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Re: Story writing: my most successful class in 6 months
« Reply #21 on: November 21, 2011, 10:30:03 am »
I did this lesson today and I thought it went really well.  The stories were very disjointed, but there was still a lot of English usage and participation was extremely high.  My coteacher thought it was a great idea for a writing class.  Some thoughts:

- Instead of giving students a new "word" card each round, you can have them use the same word.  It saves time, and also helps them practice the same word over and over.
- The "sign pens" are definitely a good idea.  It makes the writing look prettier, and each team identifies with their color.
- Give the students a target number of sentences to write.  I chose 4-5.  It gives the low level kids something to strive for, and prevents the advanced kids from writing mini-novels. 
- The Korean co-teacher should be the one to read the stories at the end of class, because lots of translating from Konglish will be required.

Overall, a good lesson and dead simple to plan for. 
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Re: Story writing: my most successful class in 6 months
« Reply #22 on: November 21, 2011, 03:59:16 pm »
This is brilliant, cheers for building on my original idea :)

I've also been adapting and agree that a target number of sentences as the fay forward although I only said 3, but a minimum of 20 words. Vary this from group to group based on their abilities. Also with good groups I sometimes hand out two words only and give them free reign for the remainder, if they are motivated and focused they shouldn't need the words.

If your finding your stories to be nonsensical ask the student who takes the story to the next group to explain what has happened so far. This works well very well as it brings across the tone the previous students were trying to take and carries the story nicely.

Good luck and have fun!

Had so much fun I carried the lesson into the next week, these are the files :D
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Re: Story writing: my most successful class in 6 months
« Reply #23 on: November 21, 2011, 04:53:40 pm »
Quote from: thebryn on November 02, 2011, 02:06:55 pm
Stamerjam: A3 paper is twice the size of A4 (Have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_size). Its just bigger and gives them more creative space. Ask your co teacher if she can print in A3 or photocopy A4 pages into A3 :)

FYI, B4 also works really well.  I mention it because B4 is pretty easy to find at my school....I think that's the common size for a lot of Korean class handouts and exams.
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