Student 1 was mistaken about the context and summary of the passage he chose. He mistakes the Nurse for being the person interested in Marry Juliet. I responded making a comment on his google document that asks “where is there evidence of this?” This comment would prompt him to look and notice that he is mistaken about who intends to marry Romeo, further encouraging the need to use textual evidence to base summary and interpretation of off. Additionally, he mentions “saying bad things to her” but does not specify who is speaking or what was said, and I make another comment that says, “be more specific, what kind of bad things? And who says this?” Despite his struggle with explaining the scene, student 1 is able to characterize the Nurse
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His claim for the characterization of the Nurse could use a specific characterization term, such as “she is a coward” which would help the student support it with evidence and he does not give adequate commentary that explains the connection between the quote and the claim. I point this out to thim using another comment where I say, “This is summary, make sure to give commentary that connects your quote to your claim” and again later in the written response where I mention that it needs to connect his evidence to his claim and can look at assignments from the past that teach developing …show more content…
I still found areas of growth for her so that she can continue to improve her skills. Through the same process of creating comments and giving a short response as before in other assignments in Romeo and Juliet unit, I recommend that her summary would benefit from being more specific when she mentions that the Nurse was mocked (as being mocked could vary in severity depending on intent and context). I also suggest that she also could begin developing the habit of citing her quotes, as I explain in the graded response at the end of the document, reminding her of how to properly cite Shakespeare. I noticed her strengths by remarking that her summary and claim are very strong in a comment and at noting that she does a good job of picking a piece of evidence and explaining how it supports her claim that the nurse is
His claim for the characterization of the Nurse could use a specific characterization term, such as “she is a coward” which would help the student support it with evidence and he does not give adequate commentary that explains the connection between the quote and the claim. I point this out to thim using another comment where I say, “This is summary, make sure to give commentary that connects your quote to your claim” and again later in the written response where I mention that it needs to connect his evidence to his claim and can look at assignments from the past that teach developing …show more content…
I still found areas of growth for her so that she can continue to improve her skills. Through the same process of creating comments and giving a short response as before in other assignments in Romeo and Juliet unit, I recommend that her summary would benefit from being more specific when she mentions that the Nurse was mocked (as being mocked could vary in severity depending on intent and context). I also suggest that she also could begin developing the habit of citing her quotes, as I explain in the graded response at the end of the document, reminding her of how to properly cite Shakespeare. I noticed her strengths by remarking that her summary and claim are very strong in a comment and at noting that she does a good job of picking a piece of evidence and explaining how it supports her claim that the nurse is