Dear Esther - explanation

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• Leerjaar 3

Dear Esther

Writing assignment for a grade

Assignment

You are going to write advice for a teen with a question or problem regarding sex and/or sexuality. You will write on behalf of a sexologist named Esther who works for a teen magazine. Readers of this magazine send in their questions monthly. As an employee of this magazine, you are responsible for selecting a question to which you will give a friendly, helpful and professional reply. 

Requirements

• Use biology vocabulary to give good advice (based on knowledge gained during sexual education)
  
• The advice is well structured and easy to understand 
• Use polite language with a proper beginning and end
  
• Show respect and compassion
• Use 150-200 words
• Do not use any resources other than a Dutch-English dictionary

Rubric

Don't forget!

Bring a charged laptop to the test

Bring a dictionary

Example

(Boy, 17 years)

Dear Esther,

I am thinking about putting a tattoo on my penis. I’m a little bit scared that it will be very painful. Also, my girlfriend does not like the idea. She’s scared that she’ll get an STD when we have sex. Is that possible?

Answer letter

Practicing writing assignment

• You get a practice case
• Write a response according to the requirements
• Use the rubric

Practice question

(Boy, 19 years old)

Dear Esther,

All my friends are pretty preoccupied with girls and everything. They all have had sex now, some with their girlfriends and others with random chicks. I feel super awkward saying this, but I haven't had sex yet. I wonder if it will ever happen, I am pretty shy you know...  I am considering to just get super drunk, go out and hook up with someone random. At the same time I don't feel like I really need to have sex. What should I do?

Write a response on behalf of Esther. Think of the requirements.

Practice

• Write a response on behalf of Esther. Think of the requirements.
• First, write your own response. Do this in Word or OneNote or something like that
  
• Then, use ChatGPT to help you improve your answer! Check what has been improved, maybe you can use some of those sentences/words for your assignment
• Prompts/questions you may use: (1) make this text more compassionate, (2) is the answer biologically correct, (3) make the text more friendly
• Take a couple of minutes to do this, in the next slide you have to make a screenshot of your conversation with Chat so we can compare your version and the Chat-version
  

Make a screenshot of the conversation with ChatGPT. Make it so you can both see your own written answer and the answer given by Chat.

Practice?

• Need practice + feedback on your practice letter?
• Hand in before Monday, so I can check it on Monday and give you feedback.
• Practice case + handing in on Studiewijzer