What the students did.
Appendix 1 shows the basic worksheet of the activities. The amount of work required is larger than would be expected in most schools and requires the enthusiasm which can be generated by a project of this kind.
It will be noted that the activities were divided into two types: Individual and Group.

Individual activities were to be done by individuals. Where they produced writing - the weekly story, the weekly reading book, the research report and the diary - they were to be checked by the current group secretary to note that they had been done, and the writing was to be read by the other members of the group who were supposed to make comments. Although it was difficult to persuade students to make comments, nevertheless there was an effect here even if only a very perfunctory comment was made. The principle here was that in real life all writing is done for a reader and the writer should always bear in mind that he has to convey something to a reader. This kind of check was a feedback device.

The Group Activities were those concerned with publication, in which the readers were the members of other groups (work produced as an individual activity could also be used for publication). At this stage the group had to decide whether something was worthy of being published, a stronger form of feedback. Other group activities were the speaking activities and drama and, on occasion, listening to tapes or watching television (both new technologies at the time). The feedback to published work was the letters of criticism from the readers (who included the teacher).