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**Revising and Editing of Writing** Lesson 13 (Cluster 4.3)

Revised guest editorial ||
 * //**Revision**// |||| //The ability to apply revision and editing strategies to refine development of information or explanation, including line of thought, language usage, and tone as appropriate to audience and purpose.// ||  ||
 * //**Mini-task**// || //**Prompt:**//  Work with a partner to revise your guest editorial. |||| //**Product:**//
 * //**Mini-task scoring guide**// |||| Product meets expectations if it meets proficient on the teaching task rubric ||  ||

**Prior to the Lesson**
 * Student copies of Editorial Writing Checklist **(Handout 12A)** ||
 * Student copies of the Argumentative Writing rubric ||


 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**Essential Question** ||  <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">What happens when your privacy is someone else’s business?   ||

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">The student will be able to strengthen his/her writing by revising and editing to focus on addressing what is significant in a guest editorial. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**Lesson Objectives:**

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**Practice** |||||| <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">//Today you are going to finalize your guest editorial. The last thing you need to do before you revise your work is to give it an appropriate title. You want it to catch your reader’s attention and still be tied directly to the point you are trying to make.// <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Ask the students to look through the pieces of text they have studied to evaluate the titles. How do the writers make the titles catchy? ( <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**Privacy Considerations are Left Behind as Invasive Digital Technology Advances** <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">uses contrast with “left behind” and “advances”. <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**A Push for Online Privacy** <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">uses alliteration. <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**Facebook is Using You** <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> uses a play on words. Lead a discussion about other titles that caught their interest and why. <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">minutes  |||| <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**Collaborative**   <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**Independent Practice**  |||| * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Teacher pairs students.
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**Time** || <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**Lesson Component**  |||||| <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**Instructional Notes**  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">10 minutes || <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**Independent**
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">//Skim through your guest editorial and circle 10 words that interest you.//
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">//See if can use any of these words to create a title that will grab your readers’ attention. Do you have an opportunity for a play on words? Compare or contrast? Double meaning of words?//
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">//Add your title to your editorial and then exchange with your partner.// ||
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">2 minutes || <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**Setting Purpose**  |||||| <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">//Today you are going to work with a partner to revise your editorial to produce clear and coherent writing in which the development is appropriate to the purpose and audience.// ||
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">30-35
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">30-35
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">30-35
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Partners exchange papers and use the Editorial Writing Checklist (Handout 12A) to evaluate each other’s papers.
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Students write an evaluation of partner’s paper. <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**(Handout 13A)** <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">and give to the writer.
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Students make revisions to their editorials and do final editing. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">5 minutes |||| <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**Assessment**  |||| <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Students use the Teaching Task rubric to evaluate and score their own editorials. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">5 minutes |||| <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**Assessment**  |||| <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Students use the Teaching Task rubric to evaluate and score their own editorials. ||