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3. Closing and Assessment

A. Exit Ticket: What Will Be the Most Difficult Aspect of Writing This Paper?

Expeditionary Learning Teacher and Student Actions Students complete exit ticket about the most difficult aspect of writing the paper [ALL]. Teacher collects student written responses.

AIR Additional Supports Provide sentence frames for ELLs at the entering and emerging level. Provide sentence starters or sentence frames will less scaffolding for ELLs at the transitioning level. Example: The most difficult aspect, or part of writing this paper was will be _________________________________________________________________. [EN, EM] The most difficult aspect of writing this paper will be ______________________________.

AIR Instructions for Teachers Instruct students to complete the sentence frame. Collect their responses.

AIR Instructions for Students Think about what will be the most difficult part of writing this paper. Complete the sentence.

B. Review Homework

Expeditionary Learning Teacher and Student Actions Teacher distributes the Researcher’s Notebook and tells students that their homework is to identify three reasons they will use in their position paper. They have a number of graphic organizers to choose from to help them.

AIR Additional Supports Make sure that ELLs are familiar with the graphic organizers and with the vocabulary therein. The previous activities will help support ELLs, because they clarify the content of the lesson. Example: N/A