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Tuesday, September 29 Assessment continued and Revision

1. Writing our way in ... Prompt ... "The nurse left work at 5 o'clock." via NPR 3-minute story contest (winning entry [|here])

2. Continue and Report Out on Magnet Summaries of Assessment • What moves do writing teachers make when they work with student writers? • What kinds of questions do teachers ask students of the pieces they have created?

3. Reading Sample of Student Writing
 * What sticks?
 * What do you want to know more about?
 * What do you think this writer is working on?

Lane in “Neglected R,” pp. 39-48 • What are the choices writers can make when revising? Do more experienced writers make different choices than beginning writers? • How might revision look different at different stages of the writing process? • How is revision connected to assessment? • What are students learning when revising?

For Thursday ... Bring to class your working draft of your own writing within the Genre Challenge for peer review, and bring in drafts of your two annotated lists of resources (one list for writing your genre; one list on teachers trying to teach this genre)

October 1 Workshop for our genre challenge

1. Writing our way in... begin a piece (any kind of writing you'd like to try) that has one (or more or all) of these assumptions about the town:

a. The newspaper, a weekly, has an excellent gossip column but little or no news from the outside. b. The town doctor is corrupt and incompetent. c. The movie house is run by a kind man who lets children in free when no one is looking. d. You run a hardware store and business is slow. e. You are an outcast who has returned. Years ago the police told you to never come back but after all this time you assume either you'll be forgiven or you will not be recognized.

2. Workshop