Secret friends
What I thought would be a simple classroom activity. My class has been paired with the other level 20 class to correspond with a secret penpal. Each student has a penname and was asked to write a letter in which they would talk about themselves, their weekend, and then write three questions for their penpals to answer. I love the pen names which range from Google to Jane Eyre. Some people still don't understand they should not write their own name on the letters, nor change pen names week to week. The question idea also had to be explained a couple of times. One student had included three skill testing factual questions about Saskatchewan in his letter and not only that he had also answered his own questions. Then others wrote comprehension questions to see if the reader had understood their descriptions of themselves. Now that I managed to make the students understand they were supposed to answer the letters some of the 'answers' are very brief like "#1 - Yes, I do" to whatever the question had been. Gone are the days of pen and paper correspondance maybe we are teaching an antiquated skill?