Smoothing Out the Rough Draft: April 18, 2019

Focus: What do our rough drafts need to become smoother drafts?

1. Warming up with a walk down memory lane: Literary Terms, Weeks 1-7 (5-10 minutes)

• Look through your Quizlet Literary Terms from first semester, Weeks 1-7.

• Are you using this kind of literary terminology in your essay? Look through your rough draft right now and try replacing more general terms with more specific literary terms.

• For example, you might replace "main character" with "protagonist." (Also, this might be a good time to remind you to briefly introduce characters when they first appear in your essay).

2. Offering you the Night-Before Checklist and establishing your "Wants / Needs / Would Be Nice..."

At the top of your draft, please jot down the following notes to your peer editor:

• What do you NEED from your peer editor today? In other words, what aspects of your draft are essential for your peer editor to comment on?

• What else do you WANT your peer editor to comment on? In other words, once they've tackled the essential needs of your essay, what else would be helpful?

• If your peer editor has time to help you with other, minor aspects of your essay, what would be nice?

3. Silent peer editing of each other's culminating essay drafts (20 minutes)

4. Conferencing with your peer editor (5 minutes) and revising / adding to your essay (rest of class)

HW:
1. MONDAY: If you are absent tomorrow (Friday), you will need to finish reading and annotating Waiting for Godot on your own over the weekend.

2. TUESDAY: We will have our final timed writing of the year!

3. THURSDAY: Final drafts of culminating essays are due.