Audience Review: Sharing Experiences Essay

Kristina Daggett

Iowa State University

Lesson Title: Audience Review: Sharing Experiences Essay

Level/Subject:  English 150 HC

Date:  9/8/09

Objectives (SWBAT):

  • Ask questions on grading criteria for Sharing Experiences Essay
  • Discuss application of class-created Do’s and Don’t’s of Peer Review
  • Use basic functions in MS Word’s Track Changes
  • Understand expectations for completing Audience Review Sheet
  • Perform an audience review on two of their classmates’ essays.
  • Reflect briefly on audience review experience

Materials Needed:

For Teacher:

  • Computer hooked up to projector
  • Uploaded to Moodle: 
    • Rubric: Sharing Experiences Essay
    • Do’s and Don’t’s of Peer Review
    • Audience Review Sheet
    • Assignment to review using Track Changes

For Students:

  • Computer
  • Two hard copies of Sharing Experiences Essay
  • One electronic copy of Sharing Experiences Essay

Before Class:

  • Open all files on computer that I will need for class
  • Hand out cards with students names on them
  • Look at leftovers to see who is absent and note on lesson plan
  • Have students turn in cards

Introduction:  

  1. Have students think of two things they want their audience reviewers to look at when reviewing their paper and write down the questions on each copy of the essay
Procedure: 
  1. As students finish developing questions, have them view the Rubric: Sharing Experiences Essay on their individual computer (while I display it on projector)
    • Think of ways they can improve their essay in some aspect to achieve an “Excellent”
    • Share their ideas with class
    • Take questions on rubric
  2. Show on projector and go over the Do’s and Don’t’s of Peer Review the students created in the previous class
    • Ask students how they came up with these ideas
    • Call on students to stress why each point is important
  3. Briefly go over Audience Review Sheet
  4. Demonstrate Track Changes on one of my old essays (have students follow along on their own computers)
    • Ask students if they have used Track Changes before (get opinions)
    • How to switch in and out of Track Changes
    • Insert and Delete functions
    • Comment Function
    • Ask students when Track Changes would be beneficial for them to use
  5. Divide into groups: Respond to 2 or 3 peer narratives
    • Decide how to carry out Audience Review:
      • As a group, focus on one narrative at a time
      • Rotate narratives one to the left
    • Respond in written/typed form using Audience Review Sheet  (encourage use of Track Changes but don’t require)
    • Depending on the method selected to carry out audience review, discuss your comments amongst your group after each essay or after all essays have been rotated amongst the group
Closure: 
  1. Go over HW and what to bring for Thursday’s class:
    • Homework
      • Revise essay using audience reviews
      • Submit Final Draft on Moodle (see bottom of page)
    • Bring:
      • Stapled: Sharing Experiences Essay Final Copy, Audience Review Sheets filled out by classmates, blank copy of Sharing Experiences Grading Rubric
      • Concise McGraw-Hill Book
      • Laptop (If you have one)
  2. As a class:  Discuss as a class the main issues we are seeing in our peers' writing

 Brief Commentary on Audience Review Lesson