*Peer-Revision Experts
---See all papers in your group.
---Do your own last.
---Do ONLY your job.
*Meanwhile, check drafts
*OBJECTIVE: Compose text with relevant, specific details; a strong controlling idea; an effective beginning, middle, and end; effective paragraphing; cohesive devices; clarity of expression; and correct usage of conventions in punctuation and usage.
Kortney L, 2nd hour.
ReplyDelete(Every line is ten syllables!)
Before I could notice the bell had rang,
Jake was already on the stool speaking.
‘I’m NOT going to read mine out loud.’
I had told myself in my little head.
My focus turned to the guy walking in.
Jordan, the tall kid who sits next to me.
His leg seems to always have something wrong.
Again, I’m brought back, but by hands clapping.
The scribe was apparently pretty good.
Mister Becker gets up and starts speaking.
Our rough drafts today. We are irresponsible and freak out-
There is no way everyone did their work.
He tells us to calm down and not worry.
The kids who did their work go to one side,
As the people who did not sit and work.
He tells them ‘You know what you need to do.’
Then tells the good students the instructions-
We shall be splitting up into four groups-
Embedding quotes, intro, body, grammar.
He explains all the different jobs.
And asks us if we have any questions-
Only he makes his voice higher at end,
Except it made him look really silly.
We all laugh at him and his wild antics.
We were told to go to one of four sides,
Each with a specific job and number.
Everyone wanted to embed quotes,
But Becker shunned them to other corners.
Once we were all in equilibrium,
We were each given a fancy number.
Our number represented our new group.
We are to turn our desks into each other,
Then he will come around to check papers.
I had Matt, Elizabeth, and Cameron.
Becker moves around and gives us paper,
Each with specific things for our new job.
He tells us to pass our essay to the left,
But in checking them he took mine away.
When handed back we worked on them again.
It was so hard not to correct grammar.
I finished first because I read the least.
As time went by, the class got much louder.
At five till, everyone gets to the door.
We have some time, but no one keeps working.
The bell rings and it’s off to third hour!