EffectiveEssays:TeasingOutCriteria

Lesson49fromLessonsThatChangeWriters
Objectives
Students will be able to
Evaluate group work
Evaluate individual work
Evaluate peer work
Identify features of effective essays
List features of effective essays
Analyze their study habits and work towards meeting
goals
Materials...
Teacher
Computer
Document Camera
Projector
Class Set: Group Work Survey
Class Set: Self-Satisfaction Survey
Class Set: Peer Evaluation Rubric
Class Set: Independent Study Checklist
Class Set: Packet of Essays
Students
Black and white journal
Writing utensils
Anticipatory Set...
Students will fill out the group work and
self-satisfaction surveys and the peer evaluation
rubric
Students will be given the independent study
checklist, and the teacher will explain it
 From Lesson 49: Inform the students that we are
going to look at a new way to write essays
Instructional Input...
From Lesson 49:The teacher will go over the packet
of sample essays and inform the students that they
will be listing features of effective essays in their black
and white journals
Modeling
The teacher will show how to fill in the independent
study checklist
The teacher will read an essay and list some features
of effective essays
Guided Practice...
The teacher will go over one essay with the students
and help them list some features of an effective essay
The teacher will help the students fill in the
independent study checklist
Independent Practice...
The students will begin reading the rest of the essays
and writing features of effective essays
The students will fill in the independent study checklist
Closure
The teacher will ask the students for more features of
effective essays
The teacher will ask the students for their goals for
the unit according to the independent study checklist
Homework...
Due Day 3: A list of features of an effective essay
Due Day 15: Essay, oral presentation with technology
component, visual component, and interactive
component
Due Day 15: Independent study checklist