Chain+Story+Writing

**__Partners:__**
 * CHAIN STORY WRITING**

[|**IES Las Salinas del Mar Menor**] La Manga, Spain

**Colegiul National Octavian Goga** Sibiu, Romania **__Participating students: class IX B__** **-** **Sorina Buşagă** **- Ana Crişcă** **- Andra Dolana** **- Florina Pascu** **- Silvia Seuşan (illustrations)** **- Anamaria Stan** **- Patricia Velicu** · The purpose of this project is to celebrate creativity and imagination. The participating students will plan the plot of a novel - basic storyline, characters, setting and then take turns writing the chapters and thus develop the story. The novel will be accompanied by illustrations made by the students. This writing task involves a combination of cognitive skills such as writing, evaluating and comparing alternatives, carrying out some prior investigation on genre or text type, agreeing on a course of action, meaning-construction and composing, deciding on text features, evaluating prior knowledge, voice, perspective and context. **__Aims: to develop students’:__** · ability to think creatively and independently · intellectual and reasoning powers in a challenging, fresh and stimulating context · ability to work cooperatively by consulting each other in order to co-construct texts · ability to act as each other's editors spotting vocabulary repetitions, grammatical infelicities, spelling mistakes · appreciation of the steps and of the fictional strategies involved in the writing process · awareness and understanding of textual forms, content and the structural elements of plots · broaden students' understanding and appreciation of the range of writing · English vocabulary and use of grammar structures · self-confidence
 * __Period: school years 2008-2009-2010 –__** **click here to see the eTwinning certificate - [[file:etwinning certificate - Chain Story Writing.pdf]]**
 * __Short description:__**

**__Work process – the students:__** · brainstorm ideas for plots · make a choice of general plot idea · decide upon the basic story line, a number of main characters and setting · write one chapter per month alternatively · illustrate specific events narrated