CEA Writing

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• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 4

CAE Writing

Objectives

• At the end of this lesson, you will have a better understanding of what is expected from you when it comes to writing an essay. 
• At the end of this lesson, you will have a better idea about how to provide your classmates with peer feedback.
• At the end of this lesson, you will have a better understanding of how to revise your own work based on the feedback you have received from classmates. 

Planning

• Explanation about essay
• What types of feedback are there?
• Class discussion about feedback
• Provide classmates with peer-feedback
• Revise personal work 

In the previous lesson, we discussed whether or not an expert should provide you with feedback. What do you understand an expert to be?

Essay

• SB page 158
• We will be focusing
    on the body of your
    essay today. 

Part 1

Time for action!

Have you received any form of feedback today?

YES

NO

Who have you received that feedback from?

Does a person that provides feedback have to be very knowledgeable about the topic?

What are possible parts of writing you could give peer-feedback on

higher and lower-order feedback

lower: grammar, punctuation, spelling, 

higher: overall organization, coherence, audience, tone, ideas, arguments, and evidence. 

examples: 

How useful is this piece of feedback?

05

How useful is this comment?

15

What will you be focusing on when giving your peers feedback today?

• You will now upload the thesis statement together with the body of your essay to "no red ink"
• Please give feedback to at least 3 people on the following: 
• The clarity of the thesis statement
• the comparison of the two texts
• the evidence provided backing up the statements

What will you be assessed on?

What will you be assessed on?

Peer-Feedback

• Go to the link I shared with you in Teams
• Copy the introduction paragraph and the two body paragraphs of your essay and upload it to "no red ink"
• Review your peers' works
• If there's time left, start revising your work based on the feedback you received. 

Upload the useful feedback received here.

To what extent do you feel that giving feedback could improve your writing skills?

05

To what extent do you feel that having received peer feedback could improve your writing skills?

15

In terms of preference, does peer feedback have your preference or does teacher feedback have your preference?

Peer-feedback

Teacher feedback

In terms of regularity, would the idea of giving and receiving peer feedback be an appropriate matter in aiding your writing process?

Yes

To a certain extent

No