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.
Students edit and revise, teacher evaluates
Objective: To evaluate letters.
Activity: Have students exchange letters and peer-edit papers by having them number how many detailed elaborations were used. Teacher grades.
Assessment: Quality and concentration of editor - students. Quality of written work.