Creative writing (Reflective Journal)

 In the fourth week, I instructed the students about what the creative writing project is about, I explained its benefits and objectives. I could see that learners were really interested since some of them expressed their affinity for it, bearing in mind they are young and like technology and can do, in this first case, the acrostic, digitally. Similarly, they liked this new strategy as manifested in class considering it is a new way to improve their creative writing through their imagination and creativity, which is why I am really excited.

 In the third week, I continued with the explanation of the main topic, for this I prepared a series of activities and exercises in order for the students to practice and fully understand this vocabulary, I realized that the 9th-grade students translate each phrase they make so I suggested that they better say them orally and immediately, their pronunciation did not matter, in the end, it was indeed difficult for them but the objective was achieved.

 In the second week, I had to give the second learning guide feedback; likewise, I started with the explanation of the topic intertwined with the first creative writing workshop (personality adjectives), here I could realize that students had no knowledge about what an adjective is or its types, much less about this new vocabulary in English, so I proceeded to explain to them and concluded with a writing exercise which was based on the creation of a sentence, the above to observe which grammatical structures or which vocabulary they used.

 For this first week, I had the opportunity to introduce myself to my students, in turn, I created the learning guide in which the first "acrostic" creative writing workshop was included. I could really notice that I was very nervous because it was my first time faced with this field that teaching allows us; however, I was able to fully comply with the tasks assigned for this week, which were to evaluate the students' oral part regarding their personal presentation (supervisor's activity).

  This new experience for my professional and personal life began the third week of March 2021. For this adventure, I will be analyzed what has been, is, and will be the implementation of this new strategy named "creative writing", a project focused on the ninth-grade students' English written production enhancement from the school "IEMRTG". This is why you can go to the following entries in order to know the progress of this proposal. First week Second week Third week Fourth week Fifth week Sixth week  Seventh week Eighth week

  My name is Judith Barrera López, pre-service teacher of the Bachelor's degree foreign languages: English-French program at the University of Pamplona. Welcome to this journal which is focused on expressing myself in a reflective way about what is my integral practice week by week regarding my creative writing project.