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Self-Revising Helps Students Succeed
Self-Revising Helps Students Succeed
Unit 9: Expository Writing
Lesson 16 of 21
Lesson 16 of 21
Objective: SWBAT self-revise for specific criteria to prepare for peer revision by checking essays against a requirement list.
Big Idea: Know your own work first--self-revise to help yourself and others.
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I begin the class by posting a check-list on the board. I ask students to verify that they have all our focus elements in their literary analysis essays:
- introduction
- conclusion
- appropriate tone
- transitions
- dash
- headings
- media
While I take attendance, students haul out their essays and compare their work to the list, identifying missing elements or elements needing improvement.
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With a list of elements missing or needing improvement, I take my class to the computer lab to revise their work. While I don't normally take this step until after peer revision, I have a special purpose today:
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UNIT 9
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- UNIT 1: Persuasive Writing
- UNIT 2: Finding Themes and Making Inferences in Literature
- UNIT 3: Text Structure and Language Use in Literature
- UNIT 4: Text Structure and Language Use in Informational Texts
- UNIT 5: Finding and Evaluating Claim and Evidence in Informational Texts
- UNIT 6: Purpose Across Multiple Texts
- UNIT 7: Final Exam
- UNIT 8: Research Writing
- UNIT 9: Expository Writing
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LESSON 16
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- LESSON 1: Introduction to Expository Writing
- LESSON 2: Outlining the Past-Present-Future Essay
- LESSON 3: Drafting the Past-Present-Future Essay
- LESSON 4: A Good Introduction
- LESSON 5: A Good Conclusion
- LESSON 6: Using Dashes
- LESSON 7: Extended Metaphor Essay, Day One
- LESSON 8: Categorizing Transitions
- LESSON 9: Using Transitions
- LESSON 10: Extended Metaphor Essay, Day Two
- LESSON 11: Style and Tone in Expository Writing
- LESSON 12: Extended Metaphor Essay, Threaded Revision
- LESSON 13: Literary Analysis Essay, Day One
- LESSON 14: Literary Analysis Essay, Day Two
- LESSON 15: Adding Polish to Expository Writing
- LESSON 16: Self-Revising Helps Students Succeed
- LESSON 17: Threaded Revision for Literary Analysis Essays
- LESSON 18: Revising the Literary Analysis Essay
- LESSON 19: A Summative Expository Essay
- LESSON 20: Speed-date Revision
- LESSON 21: The Writer's Memo for the Summative Expository Essay
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