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Activity 28
                                                                                 Closure stage-socialization
                                                                                 • Because your students have        T
                                                                                   practice reading and writing,
                                                                                   they will be able to vary their   rack  45
                                                                                   register to suit the purpose
                                                                                   and the addressee established
                                                                                   at the beginning of the
                                                                                   practice. Register should also
                                                                                   be consistent (which is the
                                                                                   most complex issue about this
                                                                                   practice), so their writing, in this
                                                                                   case, becomes natural. It will be
                                                                                   harder to interpret something
                                                                                   with big variations of register
                                                                                   (for example; Cortes was some
                                                                                   guy. He notoriously reaped what
                                                                                   the Aztecs had sown among
                                                                                   indigenous people, which
                                                                                   combines low and high register
                                                                                   in the same paragraph).

                                                                                 • There is something called
                                                                                   neutral register. In fact, register
                                                                                   cannot be neutral, but there
                                                                                   is a way of speaking that can
                                                                                   be easily understood in most
                                                                                   contexts. Whenever in doubt, it
                                                                                   is important that your students
                                                                                   achieve this. Newspapers and
                                                                                   general knowledge magazines
                                                                                   are good instances of this
                                                                                   register. So, if you provide such
               materials to your students, they will have valuable input to make adjustments to their text.

              • Point out strategies for assessing whether the register used in the report is adequate, for example:
               determining age (child, youth, adult), relationship (family, friend, acquaintance, unknown) and social
               context ( school, home, etc.).
              Activity 29
              • At this time, your students could also decide on ways of disseminating their product to others, such as a
               poster. Their final version should also take into account the needs of a big-format display. Another option
               could be an anthology, as long as it is addressed to someone else (otherwise, it becomes a task for the
               classroom library and its impact on the public cannot be known).



















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