UNIT 2: Reflect Lesson Outline STEP 1: Appealing to the Senses and Show, Don't Tell warm-up and motivation (10-20 minutes) STEP 2: Revising for Effectiveness and Adding Structure direct instruction (5 minutes) STEP 3: Introductions: A Powerful Start, The Body: Your Story, and the Conclusion: Back to the Beginning whole group discussion (10-40 minutes) STEP 4: Your Second Draft independent work (10-20 minutes) STEP 5: Peer Review: Revising for Effectiveness collaborative activity (10-40 minutes) Editing and Publishing Your Work independent work (10-40 minutes) STEP 6: Putting the Pieces Together and End-of-Unit Check-In independent work and summary (5-20 minutes) SAMPLE EDUCATOR PACING GUIDE CLASS MEETINGS DAY ONE DAY TWO DAY THREE DAY FOUR HOMEWORK/IND WORK 1x/week Steps 1-6 X X X X 2x/week Steps 1-5 Step 6 X X Drafting Time 3x/week Steps 1-5 Step 6 Lesson Extension X Drafting Time 4+ Steps 1-5 Step 6 Lesson Extension Lesson Extension None reminders: > Early decision deadlines occur near the end of October and beginning of November. If you have students applying Early Decision, help them finish the appropriate College Application early. > Remind students that unless they take the ACT or SAT in December or earlier, their scores will NOT be sent to colleges in time for Fall admission deadlines. > Don't forget to register for the SAT and/or ACT: SAT: http://sat.collegeboard.org/register ACT: http://www.actstudent.org/regist/ KEEP IT LOCAL Tailor your delivery of material to your students and their abilities. Are students' essays already well organized? You can spend less time on Step 2. Are students' essays boring and heartless? Focus on Step 3. Have students not even begun their essays? Spend class time writing, and meet with students individually after school to revise, or ask an English teacher to spend some of their class time on the finer points of organization, style, and heartbeat. lesson 8: Publishing Your Personal Statement 131http://sat.collegeboard.org/register http://www.actstudent.org/regist/