It´s so gratifying!

Today, Marco gave us the Argumentative and the Expository essays, and last week he gave us the Narative Essay, my grades were so much better that the first work, I feel very satisfied with my results because this is the proof that I studied and worked hard during this course.

Tomorrow we are going to finish this course, I´m happy because it was a goal, and excited for what is gonna be the next step, but most of all, I am grateful because now I am Writing it right!

You always learn

                                                                  

                                     WRITING IT RIGHT

I really like the name of our course, I have been writing for a long time, I mean, through my courses of english here at the Colombo, and even before in courses in other institutions, I have done essays, texts, comments, and homeworks, but do I really can writing it right?

This happened in our first day in class. We did a simple activity, Anagram, we had to do a sentence from each letter of the word "WRITING". Also, we realized that writing is another indispensable way of communication that has existed even in the time of cavemen. Everyday we have to write something and obviously it is important to improve our skills. 

STORYTELLER

In this new oportunity, Storyteller was one of my favorites activities, I wrote a very short sumarry about my first time traveling on a plane. Two partners rewrote my story, and it was very funny that both changed information, we were playing like broken phone. For me was very interesting how form a pretty little story yo can re-create something new.





PARTS OF A NARRATIVE ESSAY

Identify the parts of a essay is fun, you need to read carefully, and to think very good in the story that you want to write. Each paragraph has new information and has a lot of this aspects. For me, the most dificult part as to understand the differences between Mood and Theme, now, I feel better about it, because we had to do many activities and a complete Narrative essay

PRACTICE AND PRACTICE

After the explications, came the real work, the text is "Frustration in the Airport". The previous activity (Parts of a narrative essay) gave us the necesary information to practice with this text. We identify the Plot, Hook, Setting, Mood, and Theme. 






PUNCTUATION... SUCH A DIFICULT TOPIC

You read the first sentence and you said "Ok, it´s not that bad".... ja ja. Two seconds later,   you don´t trust even in yourself and your knowledge. I liked a lot this activity, but also it was challenging. I learned about commas, and others punctuation marks, that are totally indisensables for our course and our written life.

PRACTICE WITH COMMAS

Read once, read twice, and again.
As the teacher said "a comma can change the meaning of a sentence" so, you have to read and understand very good what are you trying to say, and in this case, we had to put the comma where they belong without changing the idea of the phrase.



RUN ON SENTENCES FIX

This was an activity in pairs, we had to fix the sentences with punctuation. The previous exercises were just an appetizer because with this new challenge we realized that we have a lot of work to do and keep practicing during and after the course.