Welcome SIS Writers!

Welcome students and other visitors! This is the writing blog for Kwansei Gakuin Univerity students of the School of International Studies. We meet every Friday during 5th period from 4:50-6:20 in Building G, Room 102.

Students will be adding short pieces of writing to this blog throughout the semester based on what they will be learning from the textbook, Interactions 2.

Please feel free to add comments and positive words to encourage each other to become fluent and accurate writers!

Friday, June 18, 2010

Homework for 6/25

We are almost finished! Only three weeks left! Please keep up the good work. For this week, please do the following:

1) Review Unit 4 for the quiz next week

2) Make 4 comments on your classmates' blog about "future accomplishments"


Have a good weekend and try to keep dry!

Friday, June 11, 2010

Homework for 6/18

Thank you for your hard work. I think everyone is improving as English writers. For this week, I would like you to do the following:

1) Write a blog post about what you would like to accomplish in the future. Think about things you want to learn or do, places you want to go, jobs you want to have, competitions you want to win, etc.

Keep studying hard, but try to enjoy yourself sometimes!

Friday, June 4, 2010

Homework for 6/11

Don't worry about the blogs this week. If you want to write a blog post, that's OK too, but it is not required. Instead, I would like you to focus on the following:

1) Write your Experience/Accomplishment paragraph

2) Complete pp. 73-75 in your textbook

E-mail me if you have any questions!
Have a nice weekend!

Friday, May 28, 2010

Homework for 6/4

SIS writers! I hope you understood my instructions at the end of the last class. In case you didn't, please make sure you do the following for next week:

1) Mind map of your "Accomplishments" in your life

2) Please make 3-4 comments on your classmates blog about a place they visited.


Thanks, enjoy the weekend and see you next week!

Friday, May 21, 2010

Homework for 5/29

We are at the halfway point! Only 7 more weeks until summer vacation!

For this week, you only need to do the following:

1) Write a blog post about your favorite place that you have visited. It can be a city in Japan, a different prefecture, island, or a foreign counttry.

Ok, keep writing and see you next week!

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Peer Assessment Survey

Hi everyone -

If I could kindly ask you to take another survey...I would really appreciate it. Please click here and answer the questions about peer assessment.

Thank you so much!

Friday, May 7, 2010

Homework for 5/14

I hope you all enjoyed the GW break! Now we have a long time until summer vacation, so try to stay focused until then. For this week, please do the following:

1) Finish pp. 26-27

2) Make at least 4 comments on your classmates' blog post about GW

Have a nice weekend!