TUĞBA KİRACI / 50.YIL CHRYSLER SECONDARY SCHOOL
Every year 23 April is celebrated as World Book Day around the world. It is also Children's day in Turkey. So as project members we decided to print our e book which is composed of our students' own endings alternative to Great Expectations and deliver them .They are amazed for holding their own effort and product in their hands. I am so proud of them :)
TUĞBA KİRACI / 50. YIL CHRYSLER SECONDARY SCHOOL
We came together with my students after school and they tried to write three lines for our joint work "acrostic poem" which is about the book we worked on "Great Expectations". They did their best to put their ideas and emotions in line together. They sometimes had discussions about characters feelings but at the end there came out three lines expressing Pip and Estella's first met.
Alev Çalımbay Atakul / 50. Yıl Chrysler Secondary School
April is the last month of our project and before putting an end to it, we decided to make a joint product. We thought about an activity which can be creative enough to make our students excited. So, writing an acrostic poem including both the letters of our project, "Time Travel in Literature" and the whole story of Great Expectations.
My students wrote the last 4 lines/letters of the project, which include the ending of Great Expectations. They got together and made meaningful lines which also rhymed. They sometimes used dictionary to find the proper words, and sometimes they used me. :)
They proved that they can also become creative poets as well as successful writers.
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| Process of writing the poem |
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| The whole poem as a joint work |
Alev Çalımbay Atakul / 50. Yıl Chrysler Secondary School
My students did really a good job to rewrite the ending of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. They were newly learning some basic grammar structures in English and this activty was a serious opportunity to use those structures for my students.
On the other hand, they needed to be creative enough to make up a new ending for the book. Who knows, maybe this was the first step of their writing career...
And as far as I see, they managed to bond their dream ending to the novel successfully. I'm proud of them.
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| My students while they're writing their endings |
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I wrote a note for my students too... |
Ioana Ciripoiu/Podenii Noi Secondary School
My students wrote the lines for our joint product, the acrostic poem. They had to use the letters L, I, N. Here's their part of the poem.
Alev Çalımbay Atakul / 50. Yıl Chrysler Secondary School
23rd of April is the World Book Day. It is also Children's
Day in our country, what a nice coincidence! We printed our new collaborative
product e-books "What if I were Charles Dickens..." delivered to our
students and made them happy with their own books in both World Book Day and
Children's Day.
My students are very happy and proud to accomplish such a tough job. And I am proud of them too. I hope this activity, this project expands their horizons about English, about literature and writing. Well done kids!
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| Our printed e-books |
Great Expectations was the first book that my students read in English. They were hard working and did this task in time. During this activity my students developed their reading and speaking skills. They talked about what they liked, we analysed the plot and the characters in the classroom. They took part actively in this project and used English more than used to. Thanks to this project my students like English language more and became for interested in studying it.
In April their task was to use their imagination to write a different ending for the book they read. They did an excellent job and, as a result, we have our e-book ready.
What if I were Charles Dickens
For our final product, the e-book, students designed a cover. They were voted on and our cover, designed by Cristi, was the winner. It is a wonderful cover. Congratulations, Cristi!
Ioana Ciripoiu/ Podenii Noi Secondary School
In March, my students read Great Expectations. The loved the novel and were very enthusiastic about the plot and characters.
Alev Çalımbay Atakul / 50. Yıl Chrysler Secondary School
As April activity we formed an e-book which includes our students' own endings for Great Expectations. We also asked the volunteer students to design a book cover.
You can see my volunteer designer students Elifnur, Minel, Seher and their cover designs below:
In March our students read the worldwide classic Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. After they finished the novel at the end of the March, they started to think about the ending of the book. Because one of their most important task is to write their own ending for the book in April.
All of our students were responsible for the same task: creating an end of their own for Great Expectations. After they sent us their endings, we gathered them in one place and created an e-book as a collaborative product.
Some volunteer students designed covers for the e-book by using web 2.0 tool Canva. We took a poll to choose the best cover with Google Forms. Finally we formed the e-book on Flipsnack.
Now, the main activity of April, our e-book is ready for everybody to read what came out of the fresh and limitless minds of our students:
TUĞBA KİRACI7 50. YIL CHRYSLER SECONDARY SCHOOL
For April , one of the things our students supposed to do is designing book covers for our e book which will include alternative endings written by our students for Great Expectations by Charles Dickens .
Our students designed cover using canva web 02 tool and we had a contest via google forms and gave our votes to the cover we like.
The winner cover is by Christian I from Podenii Noi
Congratulations... And thank you all for your efforts.
Alev Çalımbay Atakul/50. Yıl Chrysler Secondary School
March is the reading month for us. We read and finished "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens. My students loved it a lot. Before we started reading I was anxious about their probablity of disliking the story. But they internalized the story so deeply that, they even discussed about the most beloved character of the novel, the most exciting chapter etc. They all had many ideas about the development of the characters and our protagnist Pip's bumpy life.
They felt sorry about Miss Havisham but also they felt angry at her behaviours to Pip and Estella's relationship. Most of my students' favourite character was Joe, because of his endless kindness to Pip.
After we finished reading, we watched the movie adaptation of the novel as well. It was a very successful adaptation. Students liked it a lot and watched it carefully in order not to miss any scenes.
You can see the summary of our March activities in the video below:
Alev Çalımbay Atakul/50. Yıl Chrysler Secondary School
March is the month that we finally started reading the marvellous novel "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens as we mentioned before.
My students were really excited to read an English novel in its native language as they have little chance to do it because of their level. But throughout this project, they improved themselves a lot. Now, they have the confidence to understand a novel that simlified to their level. And this enthusiasm makes me really happy.
In this month we came together from time to time in order to analyze the story. Students helped each other to discuss the main topic and character development in the novel. They all had a favourite character and a favourite chapter in the novel. Listening to their thoughts was a great joy for me.
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