Lesson Details

Peer Assessment

2014-2015

Freshman Literature, Fall 2014

Date

Dec. 8, 2014

Additional Info
1. Take 5 minutes to review terms and allusions 11-15 with a partner.

2. Please take out your completed and annotated copy of "Annabel Lee." Take a piece of masking tape and place it over your name. Instead, please put your given number on the tape and write your name on the VERY back of the packet, where it cannot be seen. Papers will then be shuffled and placed on random desks. Your job is as follows:
  • Walk around the room and look closely at each annotation. Just flip the top page to see the whole poem. DO NOT turn the packet over to see whose annotation you are looking at.
  • Is there a bunch of summary and definition happening, or is there REAL interaction happening between the reader and the poem?
  • Keep track of the ones that stuck out as being really great. (Write down the numbers on something.)
  • Once you have seen ALL of the annotations, go back to the three you thought were the best and put a hash mark on the masking tape.
  • On your piece of paper, write a short statement for EACH of the annotations you voted for. This statement should explain WHY you chose that annotation and WHAT you thought it did well.
  • We will then tally up the winners and look at those annotations under the document camera.

3. Short story study: "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant on page 160. Moving on to a different kind of annotation, please take notes on the story on your own piece of paper. These notes should serve the exact same purpose as those you did on the poems.