You
will write in circles of 3 to 5 (at least 3 so you get more than one other
opinion). You
may be working on the same genre at the same time. Perhaps everyone in the
circle is working on a personal narrative. We follow this procedure:
1.
You appoint a recorder and brainstorm together for memories for personal
narratives.
2.
When you have a long list (happy memories, sad memories, scary memories,
first times, etc.), you each choose three of your own to work on.
3.
Individually you start webbing or listing details you remember.
4.
In the group you rehearse your paper by telling your stories to each
other. Each
group member has a person appointed as his/her recorder, who jots down the
details as the person tells his story.
5. Group
members then ask questions of the writer and the recorder jots down the answers
to the groups questions.
6.
Recorders give your notes to the writer who, with the recorder notes and
his/her own listing or webbing, then writes the rough draft.
7.
When all members have rough drafts from other members, read each draft
twice. The first time group members just
read to get the overall effect.
The second time you jot down comments and questions (What I really liked,
what I didn't understand, what I
would like to
know more about and What I heard, What I noticed, What I wonder – check the practice
peer review site)
9.
Group members Email the reviewed paper back to the original writer who then
writes the second draft.
10.
Groups then read each others new draft and add any more fine tuning
to comments.
11.
Individual members then conference with the teacher on your papers, and
take feedback back to do your final draft.
12. There are two ways to conference with the teacher. Either email your revision to the teacher or have the teacher come to your station and have a one on one conference with your paper on the screen.
12.
Group members prepare the clean copy of your final draft, correct any
grammatical errors that you recognize and publish your writing on your individual web sites.
13.
This is how we will do each piece of writing.
Sometimes the group collaborates on one piece of group writing. Then you
are working together to write one group piece.
14.
You will form different groups several times throughout the semester so
that you get used to working with each other