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.

Evaluations

Objective: To evaluate rough draft of essay.

Activity: Give students three different colors of pens or pencils. Ask them to underline their thesis statement, elaboration and details in different colors. Then in small groups, read aloud each paper and let each group member make suggestions for stronger elaboration and details. Finally, students rewrite final draft and hand in for teacher evaluation.

Assessment: Student participation; quality of essay. More: Students use different color pens to mark thesis statement, elaboration and details. Small groups critique, then final draft handed to teacher for evaluation.