April 8, 2010.
Each year Eastern Michigan University holds an annual Celebration of Students Writing, and this year is no different. Because this is an even that is carried on every year It makes it that much harder to come up with different titles, attractions and just something that hasn’t already been done in the previous years. The celebration is a requirement for those when taking English 121 classes. It’s a way for students to explore others other pieces of writing and see what other classes has came up with.
This year the Celebration of Students Writing was held in the Student Center Ballroom. It took place for everyone at 4:00 p.m. and was held until 5:30 p.m.
Students who are taking English 121 joined together as a class and work on a piece of writing that they’ve researched throughout most of the semester. There isn’t an exact amount of how many students are in attendance, but at least around 300-400 students. Not including family members and faculty members who are invited. When the project is done, students then display their work to faculty members, family and friends. “I invited my older sister who two years ago had the same class as myself just to see my work”, said freshman Shay Washington. Washington then went on to explain how for her project her class had to observe a community of their choice. After observing their community they then made a candy wrapper, which had something to do with, they’ve done. “I made a candy wrapper with the last name of the family I watched and observed for the week,” said Washington.
Each class has a booth so when others come by and visit they can explain what they’ve done and why. There’s a variety of different topics, idea’s and games students come up with. Some classes do something like a game so that there peer’s can interact in there project. Others may do something like trivia questions or facts about a certain topic that most may pay no attention to. One booth that captured many students attention was called Rhino Plastry. It was set up with many facts surrounding the bored explaining exactly what it is. Rhino Plastry is a nose procedure done for both women and men. Looking around at the faces and non-verbal movements, some students were intrigued with what they saw. “I have never heard of this type of nose job before, that’s one of the main reasons why I stopped to take a peak,” said visitor Antoinette Collier. Also on the table with the fun facts there was the game Operation on the table as well as a huge nose. The nose, which is made from Play-Doh, is just a representation of what doctors may use to understand how their patients wants their nose to look like.
There was a lot of interacting with one another, students standing at their tables inviting member to come and see what they have put together. There was a young lady who was screaming to the to of her lungs for people to come and dive in her Dumpster Diving showcase for candy. The big cardboard box was filled with paper, bags, cardboard and everything else making it harder to find little pieces of candy.
The Celebration of Writing is a way for students to be creative, to have fun when giving facts about the world around us. Students take pride in what they’ve decided to do and each year there’s something different.
Not only is the Celebration of Students Writing free but because it’s crammed with students in all English 121 classes’ drinks, food and candy are complimentary.
Each year Eastern Michigan University holds an annual Celebration of Students Writing, and this year is no different. Because this is an even that is carried on every year It makes it that much harder to come up with different titles, attractions and just something that hasn’t already been done in the previous years. The celebration is a requirement for those when taking English 121 classes. It’s a way for students to explore others other pieces of writing and see what other classes has came up with.
This year the Celebration of Students Writing was held in the Student Center Ballroom. It took place for everyone at 4:00 p.m. and was held until 5:30 p.m.
Students who are taking English 121 joined together as a class and work on a piece of writing that they’ve researched throughout most of the semester. There isn’t an exact amount of how many students are in attendance, but at least around 300-400 students. Not including family members and faculty members who are invited. When the project is done, students then display their work to faculty members, family and friends. “I invited my older sister who two years ago had the same class as myself just to see my work”, said freshman Shay Washington. Washington then went on to explain how for her project her class had to observe a community of their choice. After observing their community they then made a candy wrapper, which had something to do with, they’ve done. “I made a candy wrapper with the last name of the family I watched and observed for the week,” said Washington.
Each class has a booth so when others come by and visit they can explain what they’ve done and why. There’s a variety of different topics, idea’s and games students come up with. Some classes do something like a game so that there peer’s can interact in there project. Others may do something like trivia questions or facts about a certain topic that most may pay no attention to. One booth that captured many students attention was called Rhino Plastry. It was set up with many facts surrounding the bored explaining exactly what it is. Rhino Plastry is a nose procedure done for both women and men. Looking around at the faces and non-verbal movements, some students were intrigued with what they saw. “I have never heard of this type of nose job before, that’s one of the main reasons why I stopped to take a peak,” said visitor Antoinette Collier. Also on the table with the fun facts there was the game Operation on the table as well as a huge nose. The nose, which is made from Play-Doh, is just a representation of what doctors may use to understand how their patients wants their nose to look like.
There was a lot of interacting with one another, students standing at their tables inviting member to come and see what they have put together. There was a young lady who was screaming to the to of her lungs for people to come and dive in her Dumpster Diving showcase for candy. The big cardboard box was filled with paper, bags, cardboard and everything else making it harder to find little pieces of candy.
The Celebration of Writing is a way for students to be creative, to have fun when giving facts about the world around us. Students take pride in what they’ve decided to do and each year there’s something different.
Not only is the Celebration of Students Writing free but because it’s crammed with students in all English 121 classes’ drinks, food and candy are complimentary.
Just by taking English 121 comp. class students have the oppurtunity to be able and share there ideas with others. Please be sure to check out the video on the bottom of the page so you can get a better look at all the certain things that takes place.
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