Activity
1. Display the following information on an overhead:
The RAFT procedure: Explain they will use their materials
to write an assignment using the RAFT procedure.
2. Define RAFT for the students.
R = Role of the writer: Who are you?
A = Audience: To Whom is this written?
F = Format: What form will it take?
T = Topic: What important topic have I chosen?
3. The RAFT activity will be on the Great Depression
period. Information learned in the previous lesson
can be used, but students are not restricted
to that information
and should conduct additional research.
Note for students: Their textbooks have stories
featuring real people that will help.
4. Students will choose a role to represent and
consider to whom and how to communicate the information.
Topic
will be addressed in their communiqué.
5. Display Overhead 1 listing SOME ideas for
Role, Audience, Format, and Topic.
6. Give students one class period to write their
paper using notes from Tasks 1 and 2 of previous
lessons.
(Task 1 notes should be returned for use as a
reference tool.)
7. Have student authors turn in their work. Another
student will review the work of fellow classmates.
Hand out the
work to student reviewers, giving the product
to a student who was not the author. The reader
will represent
the
Audience and respond to written product by filling
in Handout 1.
8. Have students staple Handout 1 to the work
they read.
9. The work should be returned to the student
author so they are given the opportunity to address
the reviewer’s
comments. The student must then re-write their work.
10. The new and final re-write should be stapled
to the original draft and review (Handout 1).
Turn in
for teacher
perusal.
Closure
11. End the
lesson by reminding
students in
taking on a
character role
they have new
insight about
the Depression
and people’s
lives as well
as radical
change in the
following:
-
government,
- society,
- finance,
and
-
politics.
Homework
If applicable
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Embedded
Assessment
For suggestion for assessing the essay see: Page 2 in
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