Shake up the writing process with a peer critique. The second of four lessons in the Grade 8 ELA Module 2B, Unit 3 series first has young writers compare their interpretations of a scene from William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream to the original. Once finished, they engage in a peer critique focused on improving ideas and transitions.

Concepts

peer editing, transition words and phrases, editing

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• During the modeling, extend the learning by asking for other transitions to use

Classroom Considerations

• Ahead of time, create an anchor chart of the Peer Critique Guidelines that is large enough for everyone to see 
  
• Furnish the group discussion questions in writing, either through projection or on a slip of paper for each group
• The Peer Critique tracking document assumes every learner understands that stars are what they did well and steps are how to improve the narrative

Pros

• Lesson resources contain mentor texts for modeling the critique process
• Includes an annotated version of the transition model answer 

Cons

Common Core

W.8.3.a W.8.4 W.8.5