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.
Critique each other's work.
Objective: To have students look critically and constructively at their own work.
Activity: Share working copies of political cartoons in small cooperative groups. Students critique each other's work for editing and improvement.
Assessment: Quality of student group contributions. Ability to critique work for substance and originality.