The aim of this area is to develop the students’ ability to produce a grammatically correct and coherent discourse (written and/or oral) with a specific communicative purpose. They are expected to use forms that are acceptable for the context or use unacceptable forms in a conscientious way (i.e. being aware of the (social) consequences of using unacceptable forms).

Written exercises will be done mainly in class with the assistance of the teacher, and will range from creative writing to research and analytic papers. Students are expected to write outlines and first drafts of all their papers, which will be occasionally proofread by peers. Usually the teacher will grade only the final drafts of every written paper, which will be due either on paper or on the Web. There will be one graded oral presentation or activity per bimester , done individually or in groups according to guidelines given by the teacher, as well as one or more written papers.

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By the end of the bimester, students will have rewritten the script of a movie inspired on a myth, and they will have filmed it in 8-millimeter format.

Students will rewrite the scripts they wrote in the third bimester correcting their mechanics problems. They will also correct the plot when necessary as indicated by the teacher. Thus, they will have a production script. They will make a second correction for a post-production script.

They will film a movie based on the script they produced. The movies will be watched and corrected in class.

The corrections of the script will be the 30% (production) and 30% (post-production) of the grade, and the movie will be the 30%.

The remaining 10% will be the grade for the folder and readiness to learn.

World of Language.

Script of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. At. http://blake.prohosting.com/awsm/script/shining.html

 

Special Cases and Achievements

 A) Students who have demonstrated special difficulties in writing (mechanics and grammar) throughout the school year, and have shown little or no progress in this area will not work on the Internet; their fifth achievement will consist on writing exercises and corrections, as well as of grammar and mechanics exercises from the book World of Language.

Contents: They will write short compositions in the library every time the group is in “Internet” class. These will be handed in at the end of the class hour. They will correct their mistakes in the compositions before starting a new one. They will also do exercises from the book at home and hand them in at the beginning of the next “Internet” class.

Evaluation: the first time they write a composition, it will not have a grade. After they correct it, each mistake will subtract 0.2 from the final grade (starting at 10.0). The average of these grades will be 60% of the final grade. The homework exercises from the book will be the remaining 40%.

Bibliography: World of Language 8.

   Grammar and Composition (selected exercises from all the series).

The students of this selected group are:

B) Mr. Jorge Manuel Alejandro Martínez (7D) lost his rights to the use of the computer room in English class (due to his misbehavior and dishonesty), hence, though his writing is good, he will be doing a special kind of work every time the class goes to the computer room. This work will be assigned every time the class either goes to the computer room or works on the theory behind the use of the digital media for storytelling purposes.

C) Some students from every section have decided to read The Lord of the Rings instead of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. They will be doing the same line of work, but with a different book. Some have already read part of the novel and they will be reading either the second or third parts.

 They are:

 The books will be divided (for evaluation) in the following way.

D) Juan Fernando Cobo (7C) has decided to read a different book and will be reading Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. For means of evaluation, he has agreed to have only one reading comprehension quiz by the date his peers are doing their second quiz.

Students will watch a movie and study a part of the script. A short introduction to script writing will be held, and they will produce, in groups of 6 and 8 students, a script for a short movie inspired by a myth or folktale they have read about. There will be class and homework writing exercises.

We will watch a movie and read part of the script. They will start writing a script for their own movies in class and finish them at home.

 The process of writing will start by prewriting and move to writing, proofreading and correcting. By the end of the bimester, students will have written a script, and they will make a short dramatic presentation of it.

The final version of the script will be the 50% of the grade, and the enactment done in class will be 40%.

The remaining 10% will be the grade for the folder and readiness to learn.

Script of Stanley Kubrick’s "The Shining". At. http://blake.prohosting.com/awsm/script/shining.html

By the end of the bimester, the students will be able to write a research report in groups, based on information previously compiled, and they will be able to do oral presentations of their reports for their peers and teacher.

There will be a review of paragraphs with class and homework exercises from the book World of Language (this wasn’t done in the first bimester).

Students will continue the work they started in the first bimester with their research project; they will write a first and final draft of a research report, based on the index cards they did.

The class will visit the computer room to type their reports, and students will do an oral presentation of their research.

There will be class and homework exercises (which will add up 25% of the grade), a first draft of their paper (25%), and a final draft (20%) plus an oral presentation (20%).

Readiness to learn will be a 10% of the final grade.

• World of Language.
• Material Found by the students for their research projects.

By the end of the bimester the students are expected to be able to plan, research for, and write a research paper in small groups. The paper will include a complete bibliography. They will make short oral presentations during the research process.

Students will learn how to do outlines, take notes from articles and books, write bibliographies and drafts through class exercises and presentations, visits to the school library and computer room, and homework. They will prepare an outline, do research and be prepared to write a first and final draft of a research paper.

There  will be class and homework exercises (which will add up 1/3 of the grade), an outline of the paper (1/3) and notes from and bibliographies of their papers (1/3).

Silver Burdett and Ginn. World Of Language. Pgs. 380-399

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