The 1 Maju Group Blog Project

Varedaest is the winner of the Group Merit System at 27 points. 2 points above the runners-up (NoNam3 & Seven Ai). For their victory, Varedaest was rewarded with a bag of Hershey's Almond Kisses. The rest of the class was rewarded with Cadbury's Choclaires for their enthusiasm & participation in the Group Merit System. It was tight! All of you competed with such fervour! You were all great! Enjoy the treats! =)

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Image taken from liskw.wordpress.com For their third assignment, I wanted to get them to be conscious about the essay writing process. So I decided to give them a free topic writing assignment which focuses on the process of writing. And I got them to work together in groups to complete the essay. After the completion of the group essays, I will require them to do one individually. The best individual essay will be allowed publication on the respective group blogs. In this assignment, I will walk with them through the various stages in writing: from the choosing of ideas, to the planning, the revising & the publishing of an essay. An example essay will be posted up on my personal blog soon. Guiding Statements/Questions: Choose Topic Brainstorm for Ideas Plan: pick best ideas & arrange them Draft: expand the ideas & start writing the essay Revise: check grammar, spelling, flow, cohesion & etc Rewrite

Image taken from liskw.wordpress.com Theme: Health Topic: Your Health, Your Wealth I have decided to give them an assignment on their favourite restaurants. In this assignment, I ask them to write about their favourite restaurants & evaluate how healthy the resturants are. The objective is to write about health, so if they found their restaurant unhealthy, they will need to specify how they will compensate. Guiding Statements/Questions: - Their favourtie restaurant - What? Where? Why? - Do you think it is healthy? - If yes, why? - If no, how will you compensate?

Image taken from liskw.wordpress.com I think that the first post in a blog should be an introduction to their personalities & the blog. Therefore, the first assignment is writing an introduction to their blog. This should also give them a good feel of each other, group work & the writing of blogs. Guiding Statements/Questions: - Who they are - The purpose of the blog - What they want from their blog MOST OUTSTANDING POST FOR ASSIGNMENT 1: .Seven Ai.Seven Ai. by Seven Ai After looking through all the blogs. I found this one to be the most outstanding. In that blog post: All the guiding statements & questions were answered clearly. The English was appropriate and contained no mistakes. They also had pictures that were clearly label and justified. The writing was very cheerful & it was able to retain my interest. This post is the most outstanding post for Assignment 1: Introduction The group gets 3 merit points. Excellent Posts (2 merit points): Welcome to VAREDAEST!!!! by

Image taken from classpress.com During these 3 months, I will incorporate blogs into their language practice tasks. These tasks will be called 'Assignments'. The main language practice will be writing. But I strongly enourage the incorporation of relevant pictures in their posts. I will not give an assignment just for the sake of giving one. I follow the scheme of work. I will use the assignments to fulfill the topics & objectives described therein. An assignment will usually involve group discussion, planning, drafting & writing on paper before production & publication on the group blogs. Each assignment will have it's own blog post. Included in this post will be the instructions & justifications of the assignment. I will post it up as soon as I have assigned them to the groups. The most outstanding work from the groups will be highlighted & featured on the respective assignment post. Do give them your support by reading & posting constructive comme