Day 28: Summary Critique Workshop

Lesson Objectives:

• Understand needed elements to include in our Summary Critique Paper 
• Work to build an outline for our Summary Critique Paper
• Sign-up for Conferences

Part I: Overall Guide to Summary Critique
To begin today's class, we will go over the general direction to the assignment located under Unit 3: Summary Critique to ensure all students understand criteria and deadlines. Then, we will review the handout page titled, Self-Review and follow along as we go over the elements that are needed in your Summary Critique. Please use this as a guide in constructing your final paper as these are the criteria you will be graded on. Click HERE to access the Self-Review Handout. You are REQUIRED to fill out and bring this document to our scheduled individual conference next week. We will be working with this documents in the next class. For now, however, we are going to work on our drafts.


Part II: Looking to Critique Points  
I will show you some sample critique points from past semesters to get you thinking about the points you will use in your critique. Note the language that can be used to construct topic sentences that express our +/- critique. Work in pairs to discuss critique points. Look to the language from the evaluation language lesson to construct academic sentences. 


Part III: Refining  Outlines/Drafts 
For this part of today's class, I would like everyone to open their drafts and continue working on their Summary Critique Papers. If do not already have these, remember that you will need:

• A) A complete introduction that ends on a transitional thesis statement
• B) Three critique points in the form of topic sentences
• C) Underneath each of those topic sentences, use phrases to signal the illustrations you will use to support those critique points.
• D) A comprehensive conclusion that (summarizes, calls for more research, makes recommendations, ends a broader note)

I will be coming around to provide assistance in outlining your paper. Make sure that you save it to your desktop and save time to upload it to your dropbox before the end of class.


Homework: Work on your Summary Critique Paper. It needs to be uploaded on the due date. Bring your completed Self-Review sheet to our conferences.

Lesson Materials:
SUMMARY CRITIQUE SELF-REVIEW  (might save this for Wednesday's class)
SAMPLE CRITIQUE POINTS (last year, the critique of the critique!)
BRAINSTORMING CRITIQUE POINTS
CONFERENCE SIGN-UP SHEET (this will be done Wednesday or Friday)

Teacher Materials:
Last semester critique points HERE