Week 7. Project Implementation

My project aim is to develop the students' writing skills. For this purpose I have created a site https://sites.google.com/site/thequestforperfectwriting that I dedicated to developing writing skills of my students. It consists of Reading Material and links to online exercises as part of a Home Assignment, that would develop the understanding and use of a writing improvement tip. Thus the first week November 11 through 17th was dedicated to writing similes and this week's theme is: writing metaphors.
Also by the end of this week the students will have to submit a piece of writing on the topic "What is writing for me" for a writing contest "The Writer of the Month".

From last week up to now I have noticed that all the students were very motivated to do (and did) the online exercises (made by using the Quizlet and Educaplay) in learning the most commonly used similes but not all of them wrote their own similes (on Popplet).


I reflected on the reasons as initially I had thought that they did not know how to handle the popplet, or hadn't understood what is a simile. But as it turned out some of them simply didn't want to undertake the task as there was no mark for it and it was done for the mere improvement of their writing skills and not for an official credit. And here again I thought about Learner Autonomy and deducted that not all of my students are ready for that.

While some of them are willing to venture in the journey of independent learning some of them are pretty comfortable with just following directions.