Week 17

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Learning Tasks for Monday, April 28

Essential Question:  How can writing and revising a rough draft improve my writing?

Objectives:  I can...
-provide constructive feedback to others' writing.
-revise my writing based using feedback from peers.

1.  Peer Editing

Exchange papers with at least one classmate.  Read through his/her final draft and mark any mechanical errors that you identify.   Things to keep in mind:

• punctuation (especially commas, semicolons, and colons)
• sentence structure
• vocabulary/diction
• spelling
• person and tense

2. Revise

Using your peers' feedback, revising your writing.  Be sure to also use previous feedback from Mr. Ziebart.

3.  Submit

Once you have revised your paper, submit your final draft to Blackboard. CONGRATS- YOU DID IT!!!!! :D

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Learning Tasks for Tuesday, May 6 - Friday, May 9

Essential Question:  How do purpose and audience affect writing?

Objectives:  I can...
-analyze the purpose and audience of my writing.
-revise my writing based using feedback from peers.

1.  Writing into the Day

2. Final Portfolio

For your final portfolio, you will significantly revise and showcase one of your papers from this course. It is up to you which paper you would like to significantly revise. In revising your work, you will reconsider your writing for a different purpose, audience, and/or genre.  For this reason, writing portfolios do not necessarily have to be in academic format. They can include genres such as brochures, comics, pamphlets, advertisements, digital/video presentations, and websites (although note that whichever genre you choose must be appropriate for its intended audience and purpose).  We will brainstorm and discuss ideas for revision during class.

Components:

• Your original paper
• Feedback from your instructor
• Peer review of your paper
• Revised paper
• Revised paper in a new format (brochure, comic, website, advertisement, etc…)
• Cover letter

Guidelines:

• The portfolio should be in either a Google Doc folder or, if you choose to submit a hard copy, in a physical folder.
• The portfolio must be clearly labeled and organized. How you do that is your choosing.
• The portfolio must also include a cover letter, which we will complete on Exam Day.

The goal of this project is to get you thinking about audience and purpose.  For your cover letter, you will be asked to justify the changes you made to your paper by identifying the specific needs of its audience and how your new project fulfills its purpose.  Be sure to be mindful of the revisions you make so that you are able to thoroughly explain them in your cover letter.