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by Mitali Sanghvi 4 years ago

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Thesis Statement Revision

The instructional plan focuses on teaching students how to revise their thesis statements through a series of guided activities and discussions. The process begins with a teacher-led demonstration of how to identify and highlight key elements of a thesis statement using a rubric.

Thesis Statement Revision

Thesis Statement Revision

3. YOU DO

Class discussion of notes and revisions
Group member speaker
Groups of 4-5 students
What makes the distinguished sentence so strong?
How to rewrite the thesis to make it stronger?
Students get a group of sentences to revise

Discuss

Use annotations

Use rubric

2. WE DO

Examples printed for student notebooks
Take notes
Participate in discussion
Annotate with pen and highlighters
Use Padlet to model
How can the student revise it to make it better?
What makes each sentence basic, proficient, or distinguished?
Guided discussion
Padlet Shelf
Number sentences for grouping
Same number of sentences in each
Organize into categories
Organize student thesis statements
Distinguished
Proficient
Basic

1. I DO

Highlight/Underline
Differences in score
Keywords
Keyword search
Thesis statement
Main idea
Give rubric and show on SMART board

MATERIALS

Mobile learning devices
Padlet
SMART Board
Student thesis examples
Informational writing rough drafts
Informational writing rubric
Pen/pencil, highlighter
Student notebooks

5. WRAP UP

Follow revision patter with topic sentences
Meet with other students to evaluate new thesis

4. I DO

Students will...
use the annotated rubric and examples to add, subtract, or change their sentence to make it stronger.
dissect their sentence that they believe are distinguished and justify it to the teacher then continue revising their paper.
independently improve or justify their thesis sentences.
Teacher assists students
Improve or justify
Justify: if thesis is as strong as it can get
Improve: if not full marks
Look at own writing/thesis statement
Grade thesis based on rubric