Tuğba KİRACI / 50.Yıl Chrysler Secondary School

We are reading and analysing the Great Expectations together. My students are so curious about what will happen next and  so excited and waiting for the ending. They are trying to understand the main characters and the whole story and  also enjoy acting it out . 

 

How about a vocabulary puzzle?

Alev Çalımbay Atakul / 50. Yıl Chrysler Secondary School

In the process of reading Great Expectations, we are learning a lot of new words. Some of them can be seen very often in the book. So, in order to make our students internalize this new words and improve their vocabulary, we created a word puzzle.

These are the words we should find in the puzzle:

ORPHAN                                     FORTUNE                            CHAIN
BLACKSMITH                             GRAVEYARD                        CONVICT
APPRENTICE                              TORCH                                 EXPECTATIO MIST                                           STARVE                               PREPARE
BENEFACTOR                              JAIL                                    CRUEL

(If you can't remember you can get help from your dictionary.)

Here is our puzzle: (you can see bigger if you click the link below.)

Great Expectations Vocabulary Puzzle

We have started reading "Great Expectations"

 Alev Çalımbay Atakul / 50. Yıl Chrysler Secondary School

This month, March is our reading month! Our students are reading one of the most outstanding novels of English Literature, "Great Expectations" from Charles Dickens.

Dickens was one of the authors we worked on the previous months. Our students researched about his life, his works, his lifetime challenges etc. They even masqueraded as him during the presentation month.

And finally we are reading one of his masterpieces. We hope our students will learn a lot from this marvellous story. Our great expectation is that the students can feel close to some kind hearted characters in the story. 

To maintain a full understanding of the story for our 6th graders, we obtained the stage which is suitable for their English level. We're still at the process of reading and analyzing the story before the last event of the project.

Tuğba Kiracı / 50. Yıl Chrysler Secondary School

We met up via zoom with our students and played kahoot game created by web 2 tool . It was  about authors and their life and works that our students  have previously studied in detail .It was really amazing  to  come together and try to answer the questions as quickly as possible .We had lots of fun together .

 

Tuğba Kiracı / 50. Yıl Chrysler Secondary School

We are reading the  masterpiece work of Charles Dickens this month ; Great Expectations . The novel was first published as a serial in Dicken's weeekly periodical All the Year Round. We chose some  simplified versions of the orijinal book according to our students level as  we have students whose age changes from 11 to 15 . Our students will travel back in time and try to understand those ages and ecplore  innerworld of each character.

 

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

Team 6, Cute Stars has finished working on e-magazine pages

Alev Çalımbay Atakul / 50. Yıl Chrysler Secondary School

In February, Team 6, Cute Stars studied on distinguished authors Daniel Defoe and Virginia Woolf. They gathered information and brought them together. We distributed tasks, some of our students gathered information about writers and their works. We had a leader, we had a logo designer. Some of our students made chatterpix videos for these authors. Here are some documetnts we searched:

And our final e-magazine pages are ready. According to the information above we formed our pages. Here you can see our pages:

Magic Detectives Team 5

 Tuğba Kiracı / 50. Yıl Chrysler Secondary School 

Magic Detectives /Team 5 finished their e magazine pages which are about two important figures in english literature; Agatha Christie and J.K Rowling .My team worked together , searched and deepened their knowledge about these famous authors . 

Team 2/ Literature Lovers are gathering information about William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens

 Ioana Ciripoiu/ Podenii Noi Secondary School

My team, Literature Lovers, read about William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens and gathered information about them. They are preparing their word documents.

We created our final pages for the e-magazine.