Peer Review Guide For

Peer Review Guide For

Peer Review Guide for

Elegy or Ode Rough Draft

Writer’s Name:______

Writer’s Response

Turn your poemover and write the answers to the following questions on the back page (keep them secret):

  1. Is this poem an elegy or an ode? What is the “subject” of the poem? Why did you choose this subject? Did you keep the specific subject of your poem a secret? Do you reveal it in your title? Do you name the subject in the poem itself?
  2. What do you think you did well in writing this poem?
  3. What do you think you did poorly in writing this poem?
  4. How do you feel about your flashback?
  5. Explain why you used space and structure the way you did? How do your lines breaks, stanzas, and arrangement impact the meaning of your poem?

Give the copy of your poem with your answers to these questions to your peer reviewer.

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Reader’s Response

Reader’s Name:______

Feel Free to Make Marks on the copy of the poem as directed. You can write comments on a separate sheet or on the back of this sheet as needed. Use your “revision” tool (a red or green pen) and a hi-liter when directed.

Before doing anything else, listen to your partner read his or her poem aloud while you listen. Once one partner has read aloud, the other reads; then move on to the next steps. You both read before you begin writing. Write on your partner’s draft.

  1. Read the poem to yourself.
  2. Underlinetelling words, places you feel the writer is trying to tell you how to feel. Offer suggestions to make these descriptions more concrete; use imagery.
  3. Hi-lite words or phrases which use concrete language, imagery, and/or figurative language effectively.
  4. Look at the structure of the poem. Offer commentary on the writer’s use of space and line breaks. Star effective use of space. Offer suggestions showing how the writer could use space differently.
  5. Look for the flashback. Does the flashback work? What could the writer do better? What would you try if you used this flashback?
  6. If the poem is an elegy, Circle the places which evoke the most sadness. If the poem is an ode Circle the places which evoke the most joy or explain the “greatness” of the subject the best.
  7. Check for the rules
  8. Count the words, The poem should be between 80 and 150 words.
  9. Look for places where short words (in, at, of, the, for, with, etc.) can be cut and replaced with more descriptive language. Draw an X through these short words. Rewrite these lines.
  10. If this were your poem, what would you do with it? How would you change it? What would you add? What would you remove?
  11. Read the writer’s response. Review your responses to 1-6. Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the poem with your partner.
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