As for the children’s essay, its theme was the most favorite (or boring) lesson content at school and its reason. We asked children not merely about a favorite subject but a detailed content within that subject. Many children answered their favorite/ non-favorite subject and their general feelings toward it but didn’t go deeper than that. A few gave a lot of explanations and descriptions and developed a wonderful essay.
In the meantime, what I noticed in general was that a construction of paragraphs was not consistent. For example, if a sentence begins like “The subjects I like are math and geography,” usually some explanations about math come first and then about geography. But in reality, a flow of an essay was not such constant. In one case the following paragraphs talk about math, geography, and again math or in another case paragraphs go like math, and then something to do after school, and geography.... something like that.
Without making a draft first, of course it should be difficult to write perfectly at once. Actually however, it seems children don’t think it’s strange to make that kind of construction. It shall be good to teach about a writing construction for good writers sometimes. Nonetheless, the concept of this time’s activity was to let children to practice/get used to put down their thoughts as much as possible, whatever they are. So in that sense many children did a good job.
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