Lesson X – The End is Nigh! | dark days of future past

LESSON 10: THE END IS NIGH!
Grade: 9-12 (Elective course)
Duration: 54 minutes
Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will…

Offer feedback to peers about their first drafts.
Receive feedback from peers about their first drafts.
Examine the ways in which Frankenstein and Blade Runner do and do not fit within the parameters of their respective genres.
Begin refining initial responses so as to craft more polished final products.
Reevaluate their own approaches to employing categories (i.e., genres) as means of identification, considering the ways in which trying to determine category can lead one astray.

MATERIALS

PROCEDURE

Students will be given to peer edit multiple times throughout the course of this class.
In preparation, each student will be given three Peer-Editing Guides.
- These guides assist students in offering their peers constructive criticism.
- The goal is for the students to each read three of their peers’ papers and have their papers read by three peers.
  - Editing Protocol:
    - Students will pair up, exchange papers, and inform their editors about potential problem areas.
    - I will time out ten minutes for the reading/editing session.
    - At the end of these ten minutes, I will give the students an additional five minutes to discuss their findings and deliver the Peer-Editing Guides to the authors at hand.
      - This process will be repeated two more times!
After each group has been given the opportunity to map out their findings on their chart paper, they will report to the rest of the class.

Class will conclude with a debriefing of this peer-editing process.
- One potential strategy will be to have students share aspects of their own writing that they had completely overlooked until this lesson’s editing sessions!

Lastly, any anxieties/questions/concerns/ideas regarding the comparative analysis assignment will be addressed before dismissal.

HOMEWORK