Aubrey Eder

Day 11 - Workshop
October 7, 2014
Setting:
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A seventh grade, English 7 class

Objective:
- Students will be able to give classmates effective feedback that improves their
writing.
- Students will be able to receive feedback, both negative and positive, and
revisit/revise their narrative for improvement.
Standards:
- Standard 7.1.2.a.iv. Acknowledge new information expressed by others and, when
warranted, modify their own views. (CCSS: SL.7.1d)
- Standard 7.3.1.b. Revise writing to strengthen the clarity and vividness of voice,
tone, and ideas
- Standard 7.3.3.e. With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop
and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or
trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been
addressed. (CCSS.W.7.5)
Anticipatory Set:
- Start with the 10 no-no of peer review. The video is totally corny, but it gets the
point across and sometimes the corny videos are the ones that stick with the
students better than me just telling them what to do or not do.
After the video we will briefly discuss the no-nos.
http://www.teachertube.com/video/top-10-no-nos-of-peer-review-145245
Lesson Breakdown:
- 10 minutes: Anticipatory Set
- 10 minutes: Pass out peer review papers and put students into peer review groups
of 4. The peer review form is from Readwritethink.org and is a PQP review form.
This allows students to give limited feedback because when a student receives an
overwhelming amount of feedback it can be too much to handle.
- 20 minutes per person (40 total): Reviewing the papers. The students are to read
through the narrative once without marking it, and then a second time marking the
paper, and then a third time with the form.
- 15 minutes: Introduce Graphic element of narrative. Since the next class period is
devoted to ABC and not narrative writing this is the best time to introduce the next
step in their narrative paper. This is when they have to take what they wrote and
turn it into a 1-3 page piece of a graphic novel. I will introduce they different
ways that they can do that. Student may hand draw the graphic portion. They may
also use Stripgenerator, Bitstrips, or Pixton for a computer generated version. I

will hand out the assignment sheet, and the update rubric (same as before but with
an added portion).
Resources needed:
- Rough drafts, part II assignment sheet, part II rubric.