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Bromley January 21st, 2014 12:45-1:45 English/ Language Arts Patterson Middle School Room 132 Full Lesson: Peer Review 1. The overarching purpose of this lesson is(The Big Picture) a. The purpose of this lesson is to teach my students how to peer review another persons essay/project. This is important because it will teach students to think critically about their work and learn different grammatical, and structural techniques as well as elements of a strong essay. 2. The essential learning goal for today is: a. The essential learning goal for today is to learn how to critique anothers work effectively. 3. The Common Core state standards that are covered in this lesson are: a. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.6.5 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. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1 3 up to and including grade 6 here.) i. This standard will be addressed when the students work on their peer review. 4. The process by which I will equip my students to demonstrate the essential goal for today is? a. I will introduce my student how peer review and what exactly as a teacher I am looking for in there peer reviews. i. 5 minutes: introduce class to lesson for the day ii. 2 minutes: pass out worksheet that list criteria for peer review iii. 10 minutes: explain peer review iv. 5 minutes: Explain what I expect of them during the peer review workshop v. 10 minutes Explain the criteria on the worksheet in depth. vi. 5 minutes: partner people up to begin peer review vii. The rest of class practice peer review. viii. (The next day in class will be peer review with two new partners) b. Questions I might ask include: i. What types of things do you normally look for in a good paper? ii. Does the paper youre reading make sense? iii. Are there a lot of grammatical errors c. Transitions and time management: i. For time management I am going to use my sequence of events and use transitional words like, next lets move on to this and finally. d. Other considerations and ideas i. Make sure I am paying attention to my students and adjust timing to their understanding. 5. The technology I am going to use is:

I will not need technology for this lesson, everything will be printed out for the students to have in their hands, for hands on learning. 6. The following evidence will show that my students demonstrated an understanding for the essential goal for today? : a. To know they have demonstrated the essential goals for the day I will be able to tell through observations. I will also know because when they turn in their portfolio project they will have to turn in all revisions of their papers including their peer reviews and who ever peer reviewed each paper will have to write their name on the top and it will help me know if that students grasped the concept of my lesson. 7. I will pay close attention to the following students today because a. I will pay close attention to my English language learners because there is a lot they may not understand. I will also make sure to pair wisely so each student has the chance to be with different styles of learners and to avoid issues where one student doesnt gain a lot from peer review because their reviewers were all at lower learning levels. I will also pay attention to side chatter and make sure to keep it to a minimum so the students can have the most affective learning from my class.

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