Revising the Cause-and-Effect Essay
Revising the Cause-and-Effect Essay
Objectives
Students will revise the cause-and-effect essay that they drafted in Lesson 2. Students will:
- give and receive constructive feedback in preparation for writing a final draft of the narrative essay.
- revise drafts for
- cause-and-effect relationships/content development.
- focused thesis.
- clear and relevant topic sentences.
- effective opening and conclusion.
- transitions and organization.
- conventions.
Essential Questions
What is the purpose?
What makes clear and effective writing?
What will work best for the audience?
Who is the audience?
Why do writers write?
- What role does writing play in our lives?
- How do we develop into effective writers?
- To what extent does the writing process contribute to the quality of writing?
- How does a writer create narrative, informational and persuasive pieces that respond to topic, purpose and audience?
Vocabulary
- Cause and Effect: Cause statements refer to actions and events that have consequences, and effects are the consequences or what happens as a result of the action or event.
- Conditional Mood: Writing that contains a condition, which is often written as an if/then statement (e.g., If I walk the dog, then he will be less antsy.).
- Transitions: words, terms, phrases, and sentence variations used to arrange and signal movement of ideas. For example, because, for, since, consequently, therefore, so that, thus, and in the end are all cause-and-effect transitions.
Duration
90–120 minutes/2 class periods
Prerequisite Skills
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Materials
- copies of guidelines for Revising a Cause-and-Effect Essay (LW-8-2-3_Guidelines for Revising a Cause-and-Effect Essay.docx) for each student
- copies of each student’s essay, one for each student in the peer review group
- a set of highlighters in different colors for each student
- copies of Cause-and-Effect Scoring Guideline (LW-8-2-3_Cause-and-Effect Scoring Guideline.docx)
- copies of Informational Scoring Guidelines (LW-8-2_Informational Scoring Guidelines 6-8.docx)
- copies of Conditional Mood (LW-8-2-3_Conditional Mood.docx and LW-8-2-3_Conditional Mood KEY.docx) for each student
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Related Materials & Resources
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- “Peer Edit with Perfection.” https://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/peer-edit-with-perfection-786.html?tab=1#tabs
- “Revising Drafts.” http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/revision.html
Formative Assessment
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Final 06/28/2013