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 * LESSON PLAN**


 * //PLANNING//**
 * Date**: 26 February 2010 **Class and Grade Level:** English 10
 * Title/Subject of Lesson**: Post-Drafting Outlines
 * Objective(s)**:
 * Students will be able to use prezi as on online presentation creator to outline the main points and examples of their papers
 * Students will be able to analyze their outlines to increase clarity and strength of argument
 * State (or District) Core Curriculum Standard(s):** Standard 2, Objective 3: Revise and edit to strengthen ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency and conventions.
 * Concept(s) to Be Taught:**
 * Outlining major points
 * Using an outline to revise for clarity and strength of arguments
 * Materials Needed:**
 * Access to computers/internet for every student
 * Prezi.com
 * Student drafts
 * Strategies to Be Used:**
 * class discussion
 * analyzing and working from a model
 * individual revision


 * //PERFORMING//**


 * Announcements:** Announce any coming due dates that relate to the research papers which the students are in the process of writing.


 * Continuation from Previous Lesson:** Last class period, we worked on revising our papers based on the peer evaluative readings. Now, we are going to practice another strategy for revision. While getting your peers’ response to your paper can help you see areas you’ve done well and areas in which you could improve, ultimately the quality of paper is up to you. Today we’ll be practicing an independent revision strategy—one where we’ll use prezi.com to //outline// your papers based off of your existing drafts. (You’ve seen prezi.com occasionally in class as an online presentation creator for some presentations of information.)

A) Getting Started: Lead a discussion with the class about the benefit of post-draft outlining. How could outlining your paper after you’ve written help you revise? How does outlining show you your paper’s organization? How might post-draft outlining show you areas of your paper that you should work on?
 * Lesson Presentation**:

B) Directing the Learning: Because outlining after you have completed a draft helps you to see your flow of logic and organization, we’re going to use prezi.com as a tool to outline drafts. Show a sample draft, with a clear thesis, several paragraphs, and a conclusion. [modeling] Show the sample draft (by projector) and draw out outline elements (intro, thesis, paragraph topic sentences and examples). Show how to enter information into the prezi, with different fonts to privilege your most important points. Demonstrate how to connect the information, including zooming and arrows and grouping features. [guided practice] Now allow the students time to experiment with prezi and putting their drafts’ main points into their prezi documents. Make sure to give them enough leeway to experiment, but enough close-watching to keep them on task with their prezi outlines. After students complete inserting their outline information to the prezi, model how to use the outline to follow the flow of logic, and examine the points for strengths and weaknesses. [independent practice] If students have not yet finished their prezi outlines, assign them to finish their post-draft outlines at home. C) Bringing the Lesson to a Conclusion: Talk with students about the effects that post-drafting outlining can have in creating clearer, better argued writing. How did they notice their ideas coming together more? How were they able to see problems and fix them? Emphasize that prezi as a tool is just one way to re-examine a draft after it has been written. Stress that if this method works for them, they can try it again, but that if it does not, they have many other revision resources to turn to.


 * Evaluation:**