Revision Week

Terrell Artis

Journal Entry

This week in English class we got into groups to read and revise each other’s Pop Culture persuasive essays. There were about four to five of us in each group and we were instructed to read our papers aloud twice to our group and do revisions. The first time others in the group just listened as we read. The second time around the group had to write down their opinions and likes and dislikes of the paper, pretty much constructive criticism. When we were done reading we shared our ideas and what we wrote down everyone seemed to the take the peer revisions openly and heard everything we had to d=say. It was four people in my group everyone one had really good papers. All having good subjects and points to make their papers interesting. Everyone in the group had to participate even of the paper wasn’t complete. I think it was a good process to have our peers evaluate our rough drafts. When Mr. Sweeney gave us the rough draft deadline I thought he would be evaluating the papers himself. Also that week a grammar schammar group presented their topic. They had number 4 which was subject verb agreement. They taught on the subject for about twenty minutes showing how it is used correctly and incorrectly. We did a worksheet and they played a fill in the blank correctly game, giving candy to the ones that got the worksheet and fill in the blank questions right.