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Writing: Getting Feedback, Setting Goals, and Drafting Lesson PlanWriting: Getting Feedback, Setting Goals, and Drafting Lesson Plan
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EngageNY
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Grade
6th
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English Language Arts
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Duration
45 mins
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Year
2014
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Writing: Getting Feedback, Setting Goals, and Drafting

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This Writing: Getting Feedback, Setting Goals, and Drafting lesson plan also includes:
  • Full Grade 6 ELA Module 1 (.pdf)
  • Full Grade 6 ELA Module 1 Updates: June 2015 (.pdf)
  • Full Grade 6 ELA Module 1, Unit 3 (.pdf)
  • Grade 6 ELA Module 1: Unit 3, Lesson 4 (.html)
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Why is it important to set goals as a writer? Scholars process feedback from their mid-unit assessments, writing down their strengths and weaknesses on index cards. Next, pupils use the feedback to begin drafting their hero's journey narratives. 

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

the hero's journey, Narrative Writing, rough drafts, goal setting, percy jackson and the olympians: the lightning thief

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Consider providing computer access so writers can type and save their drafts

Classroom Considerations

  • Lesson four of seven from the Grade 6 ELA Module 1, Unit 3 series
  • Requires familiarity with Rick Riordan's The Lightning Thief
  • For the lesson, be prepared to return students' mid-unit assessment with feedback

Pros

  • Offers strategies for differentiating instruction 
  • Provides thorough teaching notes

Cons

  • None

Common Core

W.6.3.a W.6.3.b W.6.3.c W.6.3.d W.6.3.e

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