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Comments on Roadmap: Opinion Essay

Submitted by: Denise Gallemore

Reviewed by: Cathie Norris & Elliot Soloway, 1/14/19

·         VERY interesting! This Roadmap lesson looks like a “classic” compare and contrast type of learning activity. We can use it as template, in fact.

o   Watch video/videos/ and/or read document/documents

o   Write an opinion – using the OREO method.

o   Share and … revise?

·         Perhaps using the Venn Diagramming app would be useful in this compare/contrast lesson. It could be used as a place to store the properties of real and artificial Xmas trees – highlighting the commonalities.

·         Then, write an OREO. (We did note that there was not a final O in the Writer file.)

·         Question: should we create an OREO app? It would be a version of Writer, but it would JUST have the O, R, E, O segments.

·         Note: the students could share out a Writer document directly – just like a Google Doc. So, no need to copy from Writer into a Google Doc.

·         Question: After the sharing out, should a student come back around and revise his/her OREO? (We could put an arrow from the Sharing back to the OREO writer activity, labeling the arc: Revise.)

We think that in posting the revised version of this Roadmap, we urge you to explain that this Roadmap is a model for the compare two “things” activity. Yes, it is an opinion essay, but the basis is a compare/contrast activity at the core.