During our meeting we will be learning a process for studying student writing and planning follow-up instruction based on what we notice about students' work. The student writing for our work comes from the 7th grade Amplify unit D, Poetry and Poe. In order to study the students' writing, we need to first engage with the text. Please read Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado." Once you've read the text, please respond to the following:

In "The Cask of Amontillado," Poe tells the story of Montresor and his desire for revenge. Please compose two quick writes in response to the following:

• What do you learn about Montresor and Fortunato?

• What do you learn about what is going on between the two men?

Please have your quick write somewhere you can access it during our meeting. You'll be sharing your response with a partner.

Please read or skim "The Tell-Tale Heart." We won't be working directly with the text, but it will give context to the sample student response that we will work with. 

These frames have been adapted from They say, I say: The moves that matter in academic writing by Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein, & Russel Durst

These frames have been adapted from They say, I say: The moves that matter in academic writing by Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein, & Russel Durst