Common Core Historical Writing Seminar
Scott M. Petri, LACOE
November 17, 2015
8:30 – Introductions
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HSSWRITE
9:00 – Using Writing to Increase Reading Comprehension
MEAL https://historyrewriter.com/2015/04/27/meal-paragraphs/ and https://historyrewriter.com/2015/06/24/wwii-meal-paragraphs/
RAFT https://historyrewriter.com/2015/08/03/raft-writing-prompts/
Six Word Stories https://historyrewriter.com/2015/04/13/six-word-definitions/
Tweet-athons https://historyrewriter.com/2015/04/20/great-terror-tweetathon/
Ryhming Tweets https://historyrewriter.com/2014/08/26/twittercide-of-socrates/
Klemp https://historyrewriter.com/2015/05/27/strategies-for-teaching-vocabulary/ and https://historyrewriter.com/2015/05/20/teaching-vocabulary-to-older-students/
Link to shared work: http://tinyurl.com/oykufhe
10:15 – Historical Narrative
Colby – Energizing the Social Studies Classroom
Olson, Scarcella & Matuchniak (2015) Story Mountain
11:00 – Informative/Explanatory Writing
Fitzhugh – Meaningful Work
https://historyrewriter.com/2015/05/05/final-research-papers/
https://historyrewriter.com/2015/03/16/ww2-speech-project/
Link to shared work: http://tinyurl.com/oykufhe
12:00 – Lunch Break 45 min
12:45 – Argumentative Writing
A blank Vee Diagram and a completed Vee Diagram
Thesis Development
Believing/Doubting Game
Monte-Sano – What Makes a Good History Essay?
Link to shared work: http://tinyurl.com/oykufhe
http://www.pearltrees.com/scottmpetri/argumentative-writing/id14650003
2:00 – Providing Feedback
http://www.pearltrees.com/scottmpetri/providing-meaningful-feedback/id14984527
Goal-setting Strategies
Whole Class Feedback
1:1 Conferences
Closing the Gap
Favorite Feedback: Fact & Fiction (Turnitin)
Kaizena – demo
Voxer
Link to shared work: http://tinyurl.com/oykufhe
3:00 – Robo-readers
Grammarly
Hemingway App
Paper Rater
Run student work through
https://docs.google.com/document/d/19ztqLA7LuYJ3bBOtaeSBomgOcJmYMoDN2yIfG22IQ9A/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qZT5l_LJ0QCIAVopwSvSeUh9UVqll9dzxzLLs9jeUJs/edit?usp=sharing
Link to shared work: http://tinyurl.com/oykufhe
3:15
Pearl Trees
Blog Tour
Evaluation
HistoryRewriter 