What is project ?
As it is described in Oxford English Reference Dictionary, 'project' is "a usually long-term task undertaken by a student to be submitted for assessment." Thus, project is a planned undertaking. It is, of course, conducive to effective learning. The learners work in groups or pairs. They expose themselves to learning English as a second language more effectively by way of using their propositional knowledge. In the informal classroom situation, the learners can proceed by accomplishing many mini projects so as to acquire procedural knowledge. Project is such an activity in the field of language learning that it makes learning permanent.
Features of a project -
Objectives: A project has a fixed set of objectives. Once the objectives have been achieved, the project ceases to exist.
Uniqueness: No two projects are exactly similar even if Die plants are exactly identical or are merely duplicated. The location, the infrastructure, the agencies, and the people make each project unique.
Team-work: A project calls for team-work. The team again is constituted of members belonging to different disciplines, organizations, and even countries.
Unity in diversity: A project is a complex set of thousands of varieties. The varieties are in terms of technology, equipment, and materials, machinery and people, work culture and ethics.
What is creative writing?
Creative writing is any writing that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, or technical forms of literature, typically identified by an emphasis on narrative craft, character development, and the use of literary tropes or with various traditions of poetry and poetics.
Purpose of creative writing
The purpose of creative writing is to both entertain and share human experience, like love or loss. Writers attempt to get at a truth about humanity through poetics and storytelling. If you'd like to try your hand at creative writing, just keep in mind that whether you are trying to express a feeling or a thought, the first step is to use your imagination.
Types of creative writing include:
➪Poetry
➪Plays
➪Movie and television scripts
➪Fiction (novels, novellas, and short stories)
➪Songs
➪Speeches
➪Memoirs
➪Personal essays
My own creative writing
Topic: Story writing
Time: 1 (One) period
Students' role: Discuss in groups and develop the title into a original story
Story Outline -
Father was rich and a humbug - tried his best to make his son good in studies - spent a lot of money - failed - the boy too was keen to succeed through cheating
Impossible Mission
Keshav is a rich businessman. He is humbug too. Under the sun, he loves only one human being. He like his only son Subu. Subu is respected as the sole slender wick that would keep Keshav's family-lamp burning. Subu loves everything but studies. He loves flying kites and playing marbles. In kite-flying competitions, Subu scores above all, Keshav grows sad and disappointed at his son, for his aim is to groom him for some higher mission. So, he appoints a stern tutor. Subu's daily routine suffers a drastic change. At first, he becomes obtuse and resists. The tutor complains to the guardians. As a result, the tutor gets a free passport to bring the child to the book. Subu's grandmother starts shouting as the teacher starts using his rule-rod too much on the boy. Other members of the family remain silent. But the tutor gets the sack when everyone sees with dismay that the boy's right ear shows a crick at the end.
Keshav appoints a new teacher. The guardians notice that the boy becomes more and more at ease with his new teacher. He reads, reaches him to the gate and does odd jobs for him. In the school exam. Subu scores ninety percent. Everyone sees his progress report with a surprise as if an ugly hen had laid a golden egg.
However, just before the final examination, Subu's tutor, a teacher of their school too, is transferred to a rural branch of the school. And in the final examination, Subu fails. Keshav rushes to the school to know two facts. First, Subu's favourite teacher has been sacked, not transferred. Second, Subu forged his report card with the help of his dishonest tutor.
Keshav recalls how he cheats his clients by giving impure materials and how he cheats government officials by submitting forged bills for payment. He starts believing that his mission to groom his boy Subu is an impossible one. Subu, like his father, fails to clear the Madhyamik Pariksha. What an irony of fate !
Acknowledgments
This project has given me a golden opportunity for learning and self-development through collaborative activities. I consider myself to be lucky enough to work under (NAME OF THE TEACHER)
whose encouraging words and monitoring, individual care and motivating approach have widened the horizon of our knowledge and stimulated us to work together in joy. We are grateful to Mr./Ms…………………………….(name) who has rendered valuable suggestions for improvement of the project work.
Last but not the least, I am grateful to all my friends, family members and many well wishers who helped me in numerous ways in conducting the project.
Signature of the Student
Name ……………………
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