1. Warm up, 9/29
Summarize in one sentence your work from last class’s group work activity on critical lenses.
Take out a pen and your book, and wait for further instructions.

2. Learning Targets
To apply independently a critical literary theory to a vignette from The Things They Carried.
To provide feedback for another student’s work on his/her college essay.
To reflect on suggestions given by another student on our college essays.
To write a rough draft of our proposals for our senior research projects.

3. Literary Criticism: Independent Work
Reread “Friends.”
Complete the quick write using the information about the critical theory you’ve been assigned as a guide. You have 10 minutes.

4. Peer Revision
You will earn credit as a grader by making useful comments. You will earn credit as a writer by heeding your partner’s comments in your final draft.
Procedure:
Find someone you trust to read over your college essay.
Use the revision sheet to guide your feedback.
Also use one or both of the PowerPoint guides (posted on Google Classroom) to inform your revision.
Give specific, prescriptive feedback.
Do not correct grammar/spelling/mechanics on the essay itself.
You have minutes.

5. Peer Revision – Quickwrite
Reflect on what you need to do next class in order to effectively revise your essay (in the computer lab):
What did you learn from peer revising another student’s work?
How useful is the feedback that you received from your partner? What other ideas do you have pertaining to your revision?
Come up with a step-by-step plan of what you will do next class, and over the weekend, to revise this piece to the best of your ability.

6. Homework
Reading 6 (“Stockings,” “Church,” “The Man I Killed,” and “Ambush”) and notes. Due MONDAY, 10/3.