Setting Up a Workshop

Please read the article on "Revising" by Mary Oliver. Then please listen to instructions for your first writing workshop.

Workshop Groups:
ONE: Olivia, Jahde, Reyenne, Hetep, Amanda
TWO: Cameron, Alannah, Jasmina, Janelys
THREE: Avana, Kami, Rosalia, Frieda, Grace
FOUR: Aslin, Kierra, Leilanis, Nandi, Kadeja
FIVE: Justice, Rashid, Robert, Joshua

What to do in your workshop group:

• Today, you may share anything you wrote so far this year from your portfolio. When deciding on what piece(s) of writing you want feedback on, consider the pieces that you don't know what to do with next, pieces that are incomplete, or pieces you care about. It is usually a waste of workshop time to workshop a piece that you do not plan to revise. 
• Get feedback by giving your group members access to your file. I suggest using Google Docs or Google Drive and SHARING your work with the others in your writing group. You may also, if you prefer, print out copies of your work and have your partners write their evaluation on the copy. 
• If you are using Google or a Word Processor, INSERT COMMENTS to help your peer writers. 
• Writers should collect the drafts their members wrote on or commented on, and turn these in for participation credit.
• Turn in the self evaluation/peer evaluation sheet for credit.
• Try to keep comments helpful and specific!
• After getting feedback from your workshop group, you should:
• Revise any previously written piece. Craft your writing!
• Share discussion questions or analysis of our reading: evaluate the collection Sudden Fiction with each other. 

Time Remaining: Continue to write or complete work for your portfolio.

HOMEWORK: None.