Five points each (50 points total):
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- First Draft deadline and word-count met
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- Correct format (Times New Roman, 12-point type; double-spaced; 1.25 margins)
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- Correct form (short story, poem, news story, etc.)
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- Filed in personal drive. (Personal drives are set up for students at my school, Cooperative Arts & Humanities High School, and can be accessed on any computer in the building)
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- Peer-edited (for content, spelling, and grammar, and signed by student editor)
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- Correct spelling
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- Correct grammar
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- Personal read-through (students read their papers aloud to themselves)
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- Teacher-editing and conference (to discuss corrections and recommendations)
12.5 points for each (50 points total):
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- Final revisions and personal read-through
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- Final paper deadline met
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- Shared oral reading and defense of work (class critique and discussion)
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- Quality (based on the class’s reactions and comments and the teacher’s discretion)
In line with the “Higher Standards for Language Arts” (New Haven Public School arts standards based on state standards as outlined by the National Council for the Teaching of English and International Reading Association) prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing are included in the writing activities. Student writing will be featured in our school newspaper,
Cooperative Voices
and yearly anthology,
Metamorphosis
. There will be one major event, the Ghost Dance Poetry Reading, in which we will share our work with other students, parents, and teachers. The unit will end with a class anthology of animal short stories. The projected time frame for the entire unit is one marking period (approximately ten weeks).
