Teacher: Ms.

Julia Robinson

Grade/Subject: 9h Grade English

Peer Editing

Lesson # 3 of 3

Standards:
3. Writing and Composition
Prepared Graduates:
Apply standard English conventions to effectively communicate with written language
Concepts and skills students master:
3. Writing for grammar, usage, mechanics, and clarity requires ongoing refinements and
revisions
Evidence Outcomes:
c. Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or
trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific
purpose and audience. (CCSS: W.9-10.5)
g. Explain the relationship between authors style and literary effect.
Understandings:
Students will understand how to give effective feedback to their pees so that their peers are able
to correct their papers mistakes.
Inquiry Questions:
How can I better my peers paper through correcting their grammar, sentence structure, spelling,
and format?
Evidence Outcomes:
I can read my peers research paper and correct the mistakes visible to me.
This means students can analytically read a partners paper, correct their partners paper, and
find the parts of an effective research paper in their partners paper.
List of Assessments:
Formative:
- Turn in a peer editing worksheet
- Grammar activity

Planned Lesson Activities

Name and
Purpose of
Lesson

Approx. Time
and Materials

Peer Editing
Students can often struggle with Shakespeares language as many of its
conventions are not as familiar to them, on top of this there is the added
struggle of interpreting the language within the less widely read format of
playwriting. This lesson will provide young readers with strategies to help
them better understand Julius Caesar while also giving them an opportunity to
play around with the dialogue and make it their own.
One 90 minute class
SmartBoard
Grammar prompt
Peer Editing Work sheets
High lighters
Students need paper and a pen
Grammar Activity: Comma Splice (adapted by: Keith Polette)

This activity will allow students to review the previous days lesson. In
Anticipatory Set addition, being aware of grammar is essential when peer editing papers. In this
activity students will be in pairs. They will be given a passage. In this
passage there are numerous comma splices. The pairs must identify the
splices. Then the class will recollect and go over the passage together.
1. Anticipatory set (15 minutes)
2. Shortly discuss the importance of peer editing and taking peer editing
seriously (5 minutes)
3. Discuss the guidelines for peer editing (5 minutes)
4. Peer edit a paragraph together on the SmartBoard (10 minutes)
5. Have the students get into an out circle and an inner circle. Then have the
students sit so that they are in partners facing one another. Have the students
exchange papers. The first set will be partners finding a thesis statement.
Then the outer circle will rotate. The second set will find the cited work.
Then students will rotate. The third set will find the different claims. Then the
circle will rotate. The last set will find the thesis restate in the conclusion
Procedures
paragraph. Each set of partners will use a different color highlighter to
highlight these aspects (25 minutes)
6. For the next activity students will get into pairs (remaining in the circle).
The students will receive a peer editing worksheet. The pairs will then
exchange papers and edit each others papers. They will fill out the worksheet,
which I will collect for a grade, when I collect their papers. They will then
return the worksheet to their partner so their partner can improve their paper
and view suggestions. The students will do this twice because they will rotate
after the first peer edit. (25 minutes)
8. Closure. (5 minutes)

Closure
Modifications

Ticket out the Door: Have students write down one thing that they will fix in
their paper, and one thing that they did really well on in their paper.
Different learning styles will be addressed. In addition, all IEPs and 504s will
be addressed (regarding seating and pairing). For example if a student needs to
work with a specific student then this will be addressed.