TO ALL MY STUDENTS AT THE CURNE, SAN FRANCISCO DE MACORIS, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC:

YOU ALL KNOW THAT THERE WAS NO CLASS AT OUR COLLEGE LAST WEEKEND.  PLEASE, TAKE A LOOK AT THE ASSIGNMENT ACCORDING TO YOUR SUBJECT OR SUBJECTS:

IDI-243 (Literature):

1-Write a summary on Santa Clo' Comes to la Cuchilla by Abelardo Díaz Alfaro (Make sure that, before starting to write it down, you had read the guidelines from the Handbook for Specialized Subjects). Be ready to tell the story in your own words in simple present.

2-Read the guidelines on how to write an essay from the Handbook for Specialized Subjects.

3-Read Santa Clo' Comes to La Cuchilla and reflect on the relationship between the short story and present societies.

IDI-228 (Composition):

1-Find out about the first subtopic for your writing project. Make sure you have as much information as possible.

2-Read about Affixes, Run-Ons, Sentence Fragments, Punctuation, and Capitalization.

3-Read about The Writing Process: The Subject, Audience, and Purpose.

FEM-327 (SPECIAL DIDACTICS II):

1-Read about Dominican Curriculum.

2-Read about Planning a Balanced Program: the lesson  plan, the unit plan, and the yearly plan (Chapter VI in Big Pamphlet).

FEM-129 (SPECIAL DIDACTICS I):

1-Read about Nature and Functions of Language: What is language?, Engish as a native language, English as a Foreign Language, English as a Second Language, The target language.

2-Read about Culture: Definition, The culture of English-Speaking Countries, Techniques for teaching culture (See big pamphlet, the Internet, and other sources).

3-Read about Factors that affect the learning of English as a Foreign Language: the school and community, relationship between teacher and students, and number of students in the classroom.

IDI-224 (Advanced English I):

-Study units I and II.

IDI-135 (English Grammar):

1-Study the Pronoun and the Verb.

2-Write a summary on the short story you chose at lib (Make sure you read the guidelines from the Handbook for Specialized Subjects before writing your summary).

3-Start reading Wolfer's Roost by Washington Irvin (You can find it at Annie Copy Center).

See you this coming weekend (Thursday, Sept. 13th.-Saturday, Sept. 15th.)

BULLETIN BOARD PUBLISHING

San Francisco de Macorís, Dominican Republic

Hi, everyone,

     Last December, at the end of the semester, my students published their essays about their communities on our brand new bulletin board at Centro Universitario Regional del Nordeste, CURNE. As always, it was a lot of work, but we enjoyed the adventure.

 

 Heidy and the teacher share during the revision-and-feedback stage.

This semester, my students prepared a portfolio. The teacher checks Ana's out.

See Belarminio's colorful portfolio?

There we go!  Our mission is posting all the essays on the bulletin board.

This is our brand new bulletin board.  My students found out that the other one was in terrible conditions.  They made this.  See how beautiful it is. How creative they are!

 Here, they start posting their writing.

 

This is a wonderful team at work.

At this point, they think they are done. However, some more papers still need to be posted.

They had to rearrange everything.

 

 Now, they are done.  Mission accomplished, at last!

 

 These are the writers from left to right: Melvin, Ana, the teacher, Adelina, Evaristo, Rosalina, and Heidy. Belarminio could not make it, but his paper was posted anyway. We really missed him and he missed all the fun.

I hope you enjoyed all this and post a comment in English, of course!