Session 10: Getting feedback through reader response groups Concept: Revising and Editing a Memoir

TEACHING POINT Copy in your NB: Memoirists engage in writer response groups to be a critical friend and early reader to other memoirists in the writing community and gain insight into their own writing through the response of their peers.

Active engagement: response groups Mini-Task: Participate in a response group sharing and gathering feedback on your chosen Memoir Draft from your Project Folder and provide responses to other memoirists in the group. You will work with 2 other people today.

Reflection Copy in your NB and date/label: Reflection #9: Being a Reader—Listening to A Reader What did you learn from responding to the writing of your classmates? What did the response group notice that helped you see in your writing in a new way?

homework Continue making revisions/annotations to the draft in your Project Folder based on your responses today