Revising: A Testing Disaster (Narrative)

Aim:
IWBAT revise my narrative, in order to improve my ideas and organization.

Tasks:
1. Do Now: capitalization and punctuation of dialogue:

• A: Read how to capitalize and punctuation dialogue correctly: Conventions Review
• B: Select the choice that shows proper capitalization and punctuation: Practice Activity 1
• C: Play rags to riches with quotations: Practice Activity 2 

2. Homework Check & Share: Read and comment on 2-3 teammates' narratives. For each narrative, write at least 1 positive (Something I loved...) and 1 constructive (Something you could improve...) piece of feedback. Remember, you can make comments by clicking Comment in the Insert menu, or you can just click Ctrl + Alt + M.

• Find links to your teammates' narratives here.

3. Complete Revision Assessment Checklist: 

• Read through your teammate's narrative carefully. 
• Then, complete the revision assessment checklist to identify strong and weak parts about the writing. 
• Please be honest in your assessment! Your teammate will only improve his/her writing if you give feedback that is not all positive. Plus, checking no does not mean the writing is not good; it means it could be even better by changing something. 
• Afterwards, your partner (the one who wrote the narrative) will select three things to focus on when revising. 
• Directions for the Revision Checklist:
• Click Here to open the checklist.
• Copy everything in the document:
• Ctrl + A to select all
• Ctrl + C to copy
• Open your narrative (A Testing Disaster in the Writing Portfolio of your Google Drive)
• Scroll down past the prewriting five things table in your document.
• Press enter to skip down to the next page.
• Press Ctrl + V to paste the checklist into the end of your document.

4. Revise Your Narrative: Now that you have set your revision priorities, you will use the remaining time in class to improve your writing.

• You are never finished revising! Continue working to improve things, add interesting details, or remove things that are not important.

Homework: Capitalization and Punctuation of Quotes