On Tuesday we had a peer review day for the Cause/Effect Essay. I really like these types of activities that get the students together and make them somewhat responsible for their own education. I also revised the peer review worksheet to make it a little more relevant and to look for some of the things that I see the students having problems with in their writing. Overall it was a good class period.
On Thursday I set up a conference so I could speak with each indivdual student about their writing up to this point and what is expected the rest of the way. I really feel like the students enjoyed this conferencing and that they learned a lot from it. I was able to hand back their last essays and really point out some of the major issues and some of the really good things they are doing in their writing. I also thought it was important to let the class know about some of the things to come, because Lightbown and Spada believe that it increases student motivation.
Next week I'm thinking about doing something in my class a little different. I've been reading some articles about using film to assist in argumentative writing and I think I'm going to try to incorperate some of their ideas into my class. I look forward to writing about that in the weeks to come.
Goodbye for now!
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