Migration lesson processing

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• mavo, havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 2

Migration interview

Planning

- How did it go?

- Processing the interview

- Info & tips about writing a story

- Assessment form

How did the interview go?

Processing the interview!

What does processing mean?

Processing the interview!

What does processing mean?

Putting the answers to the questions and information from the interview on paper in keywords.

Note taker

Type the answers from the migrant you interviewed.

Spelling checker + organiser

Check spelling after summariser.

Organise piece of text (you can use colours)

- Difficulties

- Happy moments

- Surroundings

 

Summariser

Summarise and the writings from note taker:

Use the most important pieces from the answer.

Done? 

Look at the diagram from week 2:  Can you add to it? 

Are there things that turned out to be incorrrect?

Do you need to change anything?

Writing the story!

- You will do this alone and make your own story

- Make a first draft

Having difficulties beginning?        start with a list of the most most important aspects of the interview.

- The person you interviewed is the main character

- Put the story in your migration folder on your laptop

- Story is at least 400 words

Tips

- Fully empathise with the migrant: how would they react? What would they pay attention to? What would they think about? 

- Choose whether you write in first person or third person

- Describe things in detail: try to use the 5 senses

- Use the important pieces from the interview, not everything

Paragraphs

Break the text into pieces so it is easier to read.

- When you start a new topic

- When you change time or location

- When a new character begins to speak

“Danny, I need you to take a look at this,” said Mark. He pointed at the photograph on his desk. “Do you remember her?”
“No, should I?” Danny looked confused. “She doesn’t seem familiar.”

Writing dialogue

Speech brings life to a story. It breaks up long pages of action and description and gives insight into the character.

- Use quotation marks.

- Use dialogue tags

- Inner dialogue in italics.

''We went to London last summer'', she said.

Do I really love her? He thought.

Better writing

- Show, 

don't tell

instead of: The flight was horrible. There were a lot of annoying people on the plane.

Try: The old lady sitting next to me was showing me pictures of her gradchildren. She spoke Spanish, so I couldn't understand a word. I just smiled and nodded my head, hoping she didn't ask me any questions. The kid behind me kept kicking my chair and her baby brother, who was sitting next to her, was crying the entire flight.

Better writing

- Edit your story: it's important to know when words, sentences or entire paragraphs are unnecessary information.

Read your story again or ask others to read it:

If you can leave something out and still understand the plot and picture a scene in their head, it's probably unneccesary information.