Monday, November 17th

Goal:

• Provide positive, specific and helpful feedback on your peers' journal #5
  
• Refine your writing according to the rubric

Starter

• Download the in-class essay rubric  (or get a hardcopy).  
• Give yourself a grade in each category
• At the bottom or on the back, explain why you think you deserve the overall grade you gave yourself
  
• Write down what you think you need the most help with from your peer critiquers. 
  
• Email it to Ashley once you are done or put it in the homework tray

Announcements

• Honors lunch meeting on Wednesday
• Who is gone on either Thursday or Friday? Please put your name on the whiteboard as I'm forming seminar groups.
• This week's deadlines and assignments
• List of Journals
• Professor Holmes' Powerpoint from last Tuesday. She says to feel free to email her with any other questions you have relevant to Native American history and culture:  [email protected] 

Agenda
1. Go over the peer critique form and you all should download the form and give feedback electronically to save trees!
PEER CRITIQUE GROUPS

Steps for Peer Critique:
**You must critique 2 students’ essays and be critiqued by 2.
A. Email each other your papers
B. Give written feedback using the peer critique form
C. Then, discuss each other’s writing one at a time, using your points on the feedback form.

• What does this essay do really well?
  
• What areas of the rubric seem to need the most work?
  
• What specific suggestions do you have for improvement in those areas?
  

D. Email your feedback to your peers.

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2. Refine the essay and email your final draft with evidence of peer critique to Ashley by the beginning of class on Tuesday.