World Literature and Composition

18 February 2015

Warm-upAcademic LanguageNorth:East:West:

Discourse RolesNorth: East:West:

TASK:

Take out your rough drafts of Things Fall Apart analysis. On

the top, write down three things you want your peer

editor to look for

Content Language Objective

• Students will read, write, and speak in evaluating the effectiveness of an analytical paper, looking for claim, evidence, counterclaim, and organization, using:

• Guiding focus points• Peer Collaboration

Editing/Revising

• Highlight and annotate (comment) on all of the following:

• Claim (or claims) made• Support/evidence for claim(s)• Explanation of evidence and how it ties into/proves

claim• Counterclaim (addresses an opposing view and refutes

it)Use highlighters or other coding system and evaluate each of these above components

Agenda

• Seating/Attendance/Warmup• Learning Objectives• Editing/revising Things Fall Apart analysis

papers• Wrap-up, reflection on learning objectives