For my fifth observation, I once again sat in on ESAL 0480. The physical setting of the classroom was the same as the previous time I observed this class with desks split up into groups of 4 or 6. The teacher began the class by informing them that the day’s topic was going to be a continuation of descriptive essays. The teacher then informed the students that the topic they would be looking at during the class was rivers. The students then watched a brief trailer for a movie called the river wild. After the completion of the video, the teacher had the students play a small guessing game in which she listed facts about a particular river to see if the students would be able to figure out what river the teacher was talking about. After revealing the river in question to be the yellow river, the teacher tested the student’s knowledge by working with the students on a worksheet about topic sentences for descriptive essays and paragraphs. By having the students answer the questions aloud, the teacher tested their knowledge informally on the topic. Upon completion of the group worksheet, the teacher handed out a worksheet with a thorough outline for a descriptive body paragraph and tasked the students with building a formal body paragraph out of the provided outline. The teacher made sure the students knew not to just copy the outline word for word and instead had the students reword portions of the outline to make their own body paragraphs. While doing this the teacher stressed the importance of not copying other peoples writing due to the strict anti-plagiarism rules regarding academic writing in English. After allowing the students time to work on their body paragraphs, the teacher then collected their writing to further assess their knowledge. Throughout their time writing, many students asked questions regarding what words could be directly copied and what words needed to be changed around. Students also asked various questions regarding words that they were unfamiliar with. Upon collecting the students writing, the students were given a short break, at which point my first hour of observing the class ended. Overall the students seemed to be very engaged with the writing activity, which I believe is in part due to their upcoming test. Near the start of the class, the teacher announced that they would be having a test in their next classes relating to the day’s topic in which they would be expected to produce a similar amount of writing. The teacher was very open about what topics would be covered on the test which appears to have eased the student’s nerves well still leaving them motivated to pay extra attention to the task at hand. Overall from this hour of observation, I learned the importance of being open with students about topics and exercises to expect on upcoming tests well not giving away too much information so as to make the unmotivated.