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Session 9

2026-09-07 · 2026-W37

What happened

First logged English Language session. Q5 descriptive writing: built a full five-line plan (empty fairground after closing; mood 'alone'; zoom-in structure; entrance/Ferris wheel/food stands/tent; last line the spotlight going out) and wrote paragraph one, six sentences, on the entrance. Untimed, typed, supported paragraph-at-a-time.

Planned next

Ferris wheel paragraph from the existing fairground plan; AO6 focus stays sentence demarcation (capitals at sentence openings).

What this session changed

TopicNameChangeEvidence recorded
W3.1Not started → DevelopingCompleted all five plan lines with prompting between each; chose the walk order (entrance, wheel, stands, tent) and the closing image herself. Plan visible before writing began.
W1.1Not started → DevelopingChose 'alone' over 'lonely' and held it across the whole paragraph; strongest line 'the silence where people's voices should be' conveys the mood by absence rather than statement.
W1.2Not started → DevelopingNon-sight senses chosen not listed: 'the bite of the cold night air' (touch, chosen verb) and, after one prompt to narrow a general category, a single owl call replacing 'sounds of the park stopping'.
T1.2Not started → Not startedSix consecutive sentences written with correct full stops but no opening capitals; all six corrected on a single prompt when named as an AO6 issue. Also corrected peoples' to people's, self-corrected 'against'.