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Autobiography and Genre: Works in Progress

Kind of Activity:

Group Discussion

Objective:

Students will be able to offer feedback to each other on works-in-progress

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.5; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.6; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.4

Structure:

Students should by now have progressed in their autobiography. Group students into threes. They should share a five-page or three-minute excerpt (or the equivalent in visual art) with their group members. Each group member should give feedback to the others, beginning by answering the following questions:

• What surprised me about this piece?
• What questions do I have about this piece?
• What did...