Then write a commercial and perform it. The team needs to coordinate their activities in order to complete the task on time. The final presentation will be graded and all team members will share in the grade. Students write on a topic assigned by the teacher. For the purposes of general discussion, it is important that everyone is doing the same topic.
Teams brainstorm about what is involved in revision in order to define the steps involved.
Then a general discussion takes place concerning reasons for doing revision. As a team, students examine and discuss possible revisions of written work the teacher has saved from previous years. Both team members serve as editors looking for ways to improve the rough draft story. Each team now edits the two team stories. The editor's job is to offer suggestions to the author for revisions of the composition and to read the composition aloud so the writer could hear it from a distance.