Peer Revisions

Goal: Give feedback on your rewritten endings to "The Story of an Hour" and make revisions

Agenda: 

Journal 

Revisit our collaborative writing
Rewrite the ending
Submit your best work 

1. Journal 

What do you like about your rewritten ending?

2. Revising Your Work

• On Friday, you used the LIST OF ALTERNATE ENDINGS to start rewriting your ending to "The Story of an Hour" 
• You should have finished on the document in Google Classroom
• You will revise another classmate's work on Peergrade and give feedback on how they might make it better.
• After you evaluate other classmates' work, you will get your own feedback so you can revise your ending and make it as solid as possible. 
• This is a performance task assessment, so your work counts highly toward your grade. Make it your best writing yet.

3. Writing Contest 

• You are going to read your alternate ending to your table group.
• Your table group will choose who will submit their work. 
• The winner of each table must submit their work to the WRITING CONTEST SUBMISSION FORM.

4. Write a Precis 

• In Google Classroom there is an assignment called "Rhetorical Precis: "The Story of an Hour" 
• Please write a precis using the template posted in class. 

4. Preview for Tomorrow 
Find out everything you can about Maya Angelou and put what you find in your journal.

Things you should have finished: 

• SOAPSTone Form investigating Chopin's purpose behind the story 
• Formative reading of "The Story of an Hour" with comprehension questions embedded 

If you're done with everything else: 

Check out a book from the class library! 

Open House is tomorrow night at 5PM. 

Please tell your families to come by so I can meet the people who are important to you!