Flipp: Two Stars and a Wish

This is a lesson plan for English year 9.

We started the semester by trying peer response using two stars and a wish. I gathered the stars and wishes, and we could all agree that they were not very helpful. To help improve the quality of the feedback we spent a full lesson looking at the curricula of English and Swedish to find out what a good text should be like, and then we put together better stars and wishes. You can find the new list at the bottom of this blog entry.
They students have now written short texts that they will try to improve, by getting peer response from their class mates. The instructions look like this:

Stars

Variation and vocabulary

Your language is varied.

You vary your language well.

Your vocabulary is very varied.

Your language felt very much alive.

You have a varied language and don’t repeat yourself.

Clarity and coherence

Your text has good flow.

It’s easy to understand your text.

The content of your text was clear with good details.

The content was very clear.

Your text has a clear line of argument.

There was a clear line of argument in your text, making it easy to understand.

Your text is coherent and clear.

You reason with good arguments to support your point.

Adaption

Your writing is well adapted to your theme.

You adapt your language to different genres.

You adapt your text to the receiver and situation.

Grammar and spelling

Good sentence structure and descriptions.

You write with good grammar.

Wishes

Variation and vocabulary

You could vary your vocabulary more.

You could use more difficult words and sentences.

Try to read more difficult text to learn how to write like that.

You need to expand your vocabulary.

Try to make your language come alive more.

Clarity and coherence

Your text could have better flow.

You could develop your reasoning more.

Try to make your text more coherent. 

Next time you write a text, make sure it has a clear line of argument.

You can work with clarifying your text.

Adaption

You could adapt your language more to your theme.

You can think about adapting your text to the receiver and situation.

You should try to adapt the language to your genre.

You could adapt you language more to the purpose.

Grammar and spelling

You can improve the grammar in your text.

You need to improve the sentence structure.

There are some spelling mistakes, read though your text once more to find them.

Think about what tense you use (verbs).