Final Editing: March 6, 2018

Focus: How can we use peer feedback to improve our writing?

1. Warming up with a short and friendly assessment on Grammar You Must Know #7: Sentence Fragments

2. Offering you the Empathy Monologue Peer Editing Slides

3. Peer editing each other's monologues using the rubric: silent editing, then brief conferences

4. Revising your drafts based on your peer editor's comments

HW:
1. Finish and revise your monologue based on today's feedback and e-mail me or come in for a quick conference if you need help. 

2. Big deadlines approaching:

• The final draft of your Empathy Monologues is due in www.turnitin.com by 3:00 pm on Wednesday, March 7 (THAT'S TOMORROW!).

• One-minute Empathy Monologue speeches will be delivered on Thursday, March 8.

• You will receive a 25-point Academic Character grade for turning in your monologue on time.

3. Heads-up: We are starting The Great Gatsby on March 12. I recommend getting your own copy of this book (though we do have school copies available).