This is the assignment I gave my students:
Writing
a Good Paragraph
Write a paragraph about A, B, C or D.
A What obstacle have you faced? How did you overcome it?
B What obstacle are you facing now? What steps are you taking to overcome it?
C Write about an obstacle someone you know
has face and what that person did to overcome it.
D Write about an obstacle someone you know is
facing now and what steps the person is taking to overcome it.
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Write your name on this sheet. You can use it for your rough draft or for
brainstorming.
Follow manuscript rules.
Do not copy the question.
Identify the person and problem in your first
sentence.
Then describe the steps.
Make it interesting!
Give good details!
Write a concluding sentence that will leave a strong
impression.
Notice how I failed to catch the "has face" instead of "has faced."
A couple of the students thought "someone you know" meant "someone you know about" and wrote about someone they've never met. That's how Ky Ngoc Nguyen came up. (Another student wrote about a young girl who was hit by a man attempting suicide who jumped out of a window and landed on her.)
"...Ky Ngoc Nguyen who disability by hands. He came down with fever when he was 21 years old. His hand could not work anymore, even just simple thing....(eventually) he learn how to write by his foot and he was success...He achieved a lot of exam about writting, perfect writting...He said 'His dream come true'.
The reason I held off on the lesson plans is that I see things in their papers that require lessons.
I need to communicate to the students the difference between the CLAD and the classroom, which is like the difference between doing finger exercises on the piano and really performing pieces--or composing pieces. The classroom is English applied.
In my head I'm saying, "Here we can take the writing you're doing and work on what YOU are trying to express." But I think they prefer the CLAD, which makes things simpler by isolating one grammar point from another.
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