Each participating student will submit one original piece of writing, composed off-line. A print version will be kept displayed in the classroom. Teachers create a display board for student work and a map that identifies participating WorldClassrooms. Writing groups form for first session. Students are encouraged to be specific and concrete, not general and abstract.
Fuchsias are better than flowers.
Chicken tacos supreme are better than fast food. As students write their own descriptions and then read descriptions of foreign places, they will develop a better sense of what is needed to really convey place, or individuality. With each unit in the trilogy, their descriptions will improve. They will discuss the descriptions within small group and then report to the class, reading particularly evocative passages aloud. At the end of each conference unit, each small group will create a presentation about what was learned from the exchange with students in other places.