Classroom Activity (Continue the story!)
According
to English curriculum, it is expected that the students should have the
capability to create a complete narrative text which consists of four main
parts; orientation, evaluation, complication and reorientation. In order to reach
this goal, I decided to devide the class into five groups to ensure that the
whole students would participate in creating a story.
The challenge was rather
complicated since the students need to continue the story that I shared. So, I
read only the orientation part of a story, then I stopped and asked those five groups to draw and write the
whole story. The class became so alive as the students start assigning a role
to each other pertaining who will be the illustrator, who will do the
presentation, who is going to color the drawing, etc.
The
students work hand in hand to get the drawing done
They
were also involved in a lively discussion since each student have different opinion
about how the next part of the story should be. It seemed that each of them
wanted to contribute their idea to the story. Therefore, as a group, they needed
to share, combine and relate each of
their perspectives to obtain a group agreement. To unify divergent perspectives
is not easy, but the students learn how to be responsible about their own duty,
to respect others’ opinion, to use
resources properly, as well as to work hand in hand through this activity.
A
group of students were presenting their project
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