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Saturday, January 24, 2009

Let's Write a Story Together

Collaborative learning activities provide the learner with a fresh and interesting way to acquire new skills or polish existing ones. I often use group activities in my classes, and so I thought I would try something similar online.

TASK : Write a short story. Each participating member contributes
one sentence to the story. Each sentence should flow smoothly into the next.
Be creative...


Here is the first sentence.


Every afternoon, the man sat quietly on the bench in front of the grocery story.



In a few days I will post the entire story.

Collaborative learning activities: Examples

University of California, Berkeley,
Collaborative Learning: Group Work and Study Teams


16 comments:

  1. He remember as if it was yesterday, not years ago, how his life had changed right here in this very spot.

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  2. In more ways than one, this spot, this old bench in front of the store's large window, was his; and all the store's workers could set their watches by his daily arrival at 1:00.

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  3. He came alone each day, but he wasn't lonely.

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  4. His loyal dog Leo always comes with him, It is his only matey.

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  5. He carried within him the memories of all of the people he loved.

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  6. Loneliness was not a word in his vocabulary.

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  7. Back then he had his hopes and dreams to keep him company, he didn't need or want people in his life, he had far to much to accomplish.

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  8. Instead, he looked forward, as the hands of his watch reached towards that hour, when she would turn the corner, her hair flying in every direction, yet he could see her face.

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  9. The stores surroundings were familiar, and their words, like the sound of their shoes, still hung in the air.

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  10. He hardly noticed when she sat next to him, slipped the manilla envelope slightly under his thigh, and then left, as quietly as she had arrived.

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  11. That bench was peopled with ghosts from his past.

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  12. I didn't know, that an overdose of this hallucinogen whould fill my mind with all these impressions of ghosts and this strawberry blonde.

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  13. ******If you begin adding the sentences together, I think you will find a very interesting story developing. Thank you all for participating and I hope more people will visit and leave a sentence. As I mentioned in the post, I will post the story in the next few days. I will also give credit to all those of you who participated. :)

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  14. The end? :)

    He found himself pulling out yet another cigarette and striking a match.

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  15. In a single, fluid motion, he lit the cigarette, dropped the match, and slid the envelope from beneath his leg.

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  16. He pulled out the photograph slowly, it was big but grainy.

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