Let's write an acrostic poem

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.

Process of writing the poem

The whole poem as a joint work

We used web 2.0 tool Meeting Words while we were combining our poem together.

Our e-book, "What if I were Charles Dickens" is published

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.

 The aim of this activity is to motivate students to improve their use of English language through reading a worldwide classic.

 And also we aim at encouraging the students to write in English, developing their imagination and creativity.

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:

                         

     What if I were Charles Dickens e-book

Our e-magazine is now on our school website

Tuğba Kiracı and Alev Çalımbay Atakul / 50. Yıl Chrysler Secondary School

Our school, 50. Yıl Chrysler Secondary School has publised our e-magazine on its website.

Now all of our students, their parents and our colleagues can see our joint product. As project teachers we hope to inspire everybody who follows our project by sharing this lovely e-magazine as much as we can.

You can see the details in the link below:

https://chryslerortaokulu.meb.k12.tr/icerikler/projemizin-subat-ayi-etkinligi-e-dergi-olusturma_12526152.html

Our e-magazine is ready to read!

As you know, we selected ten spesific authors by conducting a survey among our students last month. Our students had fun and learned a lot of things about them. But these authors are milestones for English Literature, one by one. So we thought that preparing noticeboards and making short presentations are not enough to know these extraordinarily talented and creative figures of English Literature. That’s why, we decided to create an e-magazine with the help of our students.

We considered that this activity might be an opportunity to bring students from different schools together and form an interaction between them. We formed 7 teams for 7 teachers. Each team had students who were chosen randomly with web 2.0 tool Keamk and each team had a mission (researching, desingning, forming a quiz, making videos etc.) to fullfill.

And now, our "Time Travel in Literature E-magazine" is published and ready to read. You can click the link below and reach our collaborative/joint product:

Time travel in literature e-magazine