When I was younger, my mom would refuse to correct my schoolwork unless I sat next to her and watched her correct it myself. Even though I hated doing so at the time, it’s thanks to my mom that I am able to write with ease in English!
Today I was very proud of The Break because everyone came to class with a well-written article. As I read them, I realized that the group had finally chosen to write about things they were truly passionate about, and it definitely came across in their writing.
Augusto, the captain of the Peruvian water polo team wrote an article explaining how his team had just classified for the World Cup.
Barbara on the other hand, started a new movement called “Humans of Lima” which consists of telling the story of different people around Lima every week. Her first edition featured security guards, and both the video she made and the article she wrote were very moving.
If The Break is able to keep up the good work that they produced this week, I'm sure that the groups writing is going to improve immensely and that our audience is going to grow!
The best part of today's class was sitting down to help Carolina edit her article, because I was able to see her progress. As I would ask her to read what she had written out loud, she began realizing her mistakes and exclaiming, “I write so bad! I write so bad!” That's not what I wanted her to realize, because she's not a poor writer, all she needs is to revise her work!
We also went over her sentence structure and I taught her how to use hyphens. I explained to her that in order for her writing to be engaging for he audience - teenagers -she has to write about things she as a teenager would like to read about.
The best way that one can learn, is through a mistake. So having me correct every article and simply send it back to the writer is not as effective as having me sit down next to the writer and go over his/her mistakes like my mom did for me and like I did with Carolina!
Today I was very proud of The Break because everyone came to class with a well-written article. As I read them, I realized that the group had finally chosen to write about things they were truly passionate about, and it definitely came across in their writing.
Augusto, the captain of the Peruvian water polo team wrote an article explaining how his team had just classified for the World Cup.
Barbara on the other hand, started a new movement called “Humans of Lima” which consists of telling the story of different people around Lima every week. Her first edition featured security guards, and both the video she made and the article she wrote were very moving.
If The Break is able to keep up the good work that they produced this week, I'm sure that the groups writing is going to improve immensely and that our audience is going to grow!
The best part of today's class was sitting down to help Carolina edit her article, because I was able to see her progress. As I would ask her to read what she had written out loud, she began realizing her mistakes and exclaiming, “I write so bad! I write so bad!” That's not what I wanted her to realize, because she's not a poor writer, all she needs is to revise her work!
We also went over her sentence structure and I taught her how to use hyphens. I explained to her that in order for her writing to be engaging for he audience - teenagers -she has to write about things she as a teenager would like to read about.
The best way that one can learn, is through a mistake. So having me correct every article and simply send it back to the writer is not as effective as having me sit down next to the writer and go over his/her mistakes like my mom did for me and like I did with Carolina!