Thesis Statement Revision

Look at own writing/thesis statement

Grade thesis based on rubric

Improve or justify

Improve: if not full marks

Justify: if thesis is as strong as it can get

Teacher assists students

Students will...

independently improve or justify their thesis sentences.

dissect their sentence that they believe are distinguished and justify it to the teacher then continue revising their paper.

use the annotated rubric and examples to add, subtract, or change their sentence to make it stronger.

Meet with other students to evaluate new thesis

Follow revision patter with topic sentences

Student notebooks

Pen/pencil, highlighter

Informational writing rubric

Informational writing rough drafts

Student thesis examples

SMART Board

Padlet

Mobile learning devices

Give rubric and show on SMART board

Keyword search

Main idea

Thesis statement

Highlight/Underline

Keywords

Differences in score

Organize student thesis statements

Basic

Proficient

Distinguished

Padlet Shelf

Organize into categories

Same number of sentences in each

Number sentences for grouping

Use Padlet to model

Guided discussion

What makes each sentence basic, proficient, or distinguished?

How can the student revise it to make it better?

Examples printed for student notebooks

Annotate with pen and highlighters

Participate in discussion

Take notes

Groups of 4-5 students

Students get a group of sentences to revise

Use rubric

Use annotations

Discuss

How to rewrite the thesis to make it stronger?

What makes the distinguished sentence so strong?

Group member speaker

Class discussion of notes and revisions