-We started with the technique of Brainstorming, which consists in writing everything that comes to our minds related to the given topic in a list. Then, we classify the different ideas in little groups based on their similarity.
Topic: Culture shock (I did it based on Korea)
- Gastronomy.
- Educational system.
- Social relationships.
- Manners.
- Language.
- People's personalities.
- Respect based on age and job.
- Curious things they do.
- Jet lag.
- Weather.
- Views.
- Different schedules (time to go to work, to school, etc.)
- Traditional coins and money.
- Using "honorifics".
Little groups:
- Culture: gastronomy, educational system, language, traditional coins and money, manners, using of "honorifics".
- Landscape: weather, views.
- People: social relationships, people's personalities, respect based on age and job, curious things they do, different schedules.
- Others: jet lag.
- Then, we continued with the technique of freewriting, which consists in writing everything that comes to our minds in a draft way. It's very important to do it non-stop.
Topic: Problems in class.
Bad communication, arguments between classmates, arriving late, talking or shouting in the middle of class, murmurs that can upset other people, opinion differences, coldness because of air conditioner, not being able to see clearly the blackboard or the projection due to lighting problems, distracting thins such as people entering the class later, sometimes we can't hear the teacher properly, heat without air conditioner (i would like a middle term between cold and heat).
-The next technique we reviewed was clustering and it consists in a main idea from which they derive different ideas like the branches of a tree. Some of these ideas may or may not be related.
Topic: New technologies.
-The following technique of gathering ideas is asking questions. Here we have the Big Six types of questions to ask and answer ourselves: What? When? Who? Where? Why? How?
Topic: Short stories.
1. When did short stories start to be written? The first examples of short stories began in XVII-XVIII centuries.
2. Who was or were the most famous writers? Hans Christian Andersen , Charles Dickens, Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm.
3. Why are there happy endings in most famous short stories? To make readers feel relieved that even through hard times, everything ends up well.
4. Why do people, especially children, like this kind of stories? Because they are short and they don't have complex plots.
5. Who are the main characters in short stories? Normally, princesses, poor and miserable people, fantastic animals, children (orphans), etc.
6. How are normally short stories developed? Short stories almost always have a small introduction, a body and an end.
7. Where do short stories happen? The characters normally live in forests, kingdoms, castles, small towns...
8. What were the first short stories? "The poisoner of montremos" and "Somnambulism" of Richard Cumberland and Charles Brockden Brown, respectively.
-The last technique we studied was cubing, which consisted in describing, comparing, associating, analyzing, applying and arguing about the main topic.
Topic: Cinema.
- Describing: Cinemas are establishments where people can go and they can watch a movie. Movies are videos between 1 hour 30 minutes and 2 hour long.
- Comparing: Cinema and literature, for example, both focus on telling a story from the beginning to the end. Thanks to cinema we can have a plot represented physically.
- Associating: One of the best movies I have ever watched is Inception and the first movie I watched in a cinema was "The Lion King".
- Analyzing: Cinema has a lot of different genres but they are all related because of their similar structure, which is . Introduction- Body- Conclusion.
- Applying: Cinemacan be used to concern people about different topics such as pollution, racism, violence, war, sexism, social minorities, etc.
- Arguing: The pros of cinema are that movies can help people with problems, they can spread positive messages too and they are artistic, audio-visual works. The cons of this topic are that wrong messages can also be spread and some movies don't have a positive purpose.
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