Essay Isn't That Bad

The date turns 11.2 and yes, tomorrow starts the normal day of every student and teacher.

And as the clock ticks tonight, most of the teachers are probably thinking how to start their first day of the second semester. Others are probably making their lesson plans now. Essay, is or might be, the easiest answer.

"My Semestral Break" is the most common title we ask our students to write about. Generally, we want them to write about how they spent their break, who were with them, how they felt and congruently, we ask them to write with correct grammar, spelling, and proper indention. However, is this really the goal of this activity? We do hope so. We do hope that it's not because we're still in the process of plotting our modules and lessons, that we're still on the hang of our trips, or worst, that the actions of our students make us feel lazy as well to start the day with vibrancy. Because as facilitators, we don't only command to kill time. We don't command because we want them to do most of the tasks.

Regardless of the so many hence's a teacher can give as she asks for essays, here are the points that we can see worth achieving.

• First day is first day. Writing essay on the first day will enable us to stretch literally our hands (wink! wink!) and our brains as well. 
• Writing essay on the first day will exercise and revise our vocabulary knowledge.
• Writing essay will worth the time because it fundamentally gives us the chance to share our experiences in words.
• Writing essay, most importantly, sets our minds that we are already in school and that at the end of our rope, we must be pulling our love for studying back.
• Writing essay, the least, makes use of the paper and the pen that added weight on the bags we bring on the first day of school (laugh it all loud).

Of course all of us don't want to have an albatross around our necks on the first day. With creative mind and much more goal- oriented personality, a devoted teacher never fails to think of how his students could apply what they learn from the task for a lifetime. Hence, we should think of our activities on the first day very well.