Academy Minibook Project

Our English Academy recently had every class above beginner level put together a minibook.  The students wrote stories or other short pieces which were then bound together with a spiral binder by a print shop.  Each student got a copy of the class minibook.

That was step 1.

Step 2, which started today, is to review all of those minibooks for noteworthy writings, which will be put together into a book of approximately 100 pages that the academy will fund and provide to each student.

A small "editorial" group of 4 higher-level students (5th-7th grades) met today, Saturday, to review the minibooks and complete the selection process.

This is a first-time endeavor for the academy, and, as such, it is a work in progress, but the plan is to have the foreign teachers (we have 4) motivate the selected students to edit and type their texts/stories. (Some of the pieces have been typed, some not; learning the English keyboard, as you may understand, is different from learning English, and we seldom require typed assignments).

Those students who improve their texts will email them to the academy, and next Saturday the student editors will meet again and work on editing the pieces on school computers.

That's the current plan.

We are focusing on making it a student-centered project, and so far that is what has happened.