I
have three periods of Advanced Placement English, and one advanced English. They are juniors and seniors in high school, grades 11 and 12. The
students are extremely bright, and many are very talented writers. They
do journal entries every week that I have them do as a blog on our
class website I created.
I
am hoping to find another English speaking country,
preferably European, to write them back and to also read their blogs,
not only to experience other talented students' writing, but also to
expose them to culture outside their own. They live in a smaller,
farming community and all will be going off to larger universities
where being ethnocentric will be a determent.
This is a college
preparatory class, and I am open to a wide variety of topics as the
focus of their blogs. It is focused around creative writing, but I
think it is good for them to touch on socio-political and cultural
topics. Currently, I had them write an introductory blog discussing
themselves and life as they know it being an American teenager.
My
classes are about 16-18 students each except my advanced English which
is only 8 people. If you do not have a few larger classes like this, I
would be interested in taking on a different class for each one of my
own.
