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!
