Give guidance and feedback to students' plans, encouraging, refining, and helping them to be responsible for their own learning. Maintain high expectations for completion of chosen options. Summarize by reviewing the whole, bringing students "full circle" to the experience with which the learning began.

Write story using info gained from articles.

Objective: To create an expository text and then evaluate and refine it.

Activity: Students begin writing the expository text. As the work is completed, they proofread, revise and edit their work. Working with a partner, they then proofread and edit each other's work. They then begin the final draft.

Assessment: Quality of work and responses to one another's work.