Peer Reading: Literacy Narrative

"We are going to be peer editing today." I heard this sentence come out of my teacher's mouth. As Dr. D said that I knew there would be good and bad things. The good thing was I was going to be able to read my fellow classmates papers, see how I could improve, and help other people improve. The bad thing was, sometimes people are just careless, and say good paper. They don't give you any real feedback in order to make your paper better. Keeping that in mind, I knew I didn't want to be one of those people.

As the papers began to be passed around, people were looking to see who has theres. The first paper I received was Clark's. It was a vivid story about one of his past teachers in lower school. This teacher gave him a large point value essay that he was not wanting to do. Clark decided to push through it, and afterwards realized that this teacher pushed him to become a better writer. The story was very relatable because many of teachers have the same effect on me. Clark had great ideas though out the paper as well. When I fished reading and adding suggestions to Clark's, Dr. D handed me another paper to read. This paper belong to one of my good friends, Ellie. I knew I couldn't wait to read it.

As I finished reading the first paragraph, the bell rang to go the next class. Ellie told me I could keep it, finish reading and then hand it back to her later. I was excited because I knew what her paper was about, but I didn't know the details. Ellie's paper was about her Spring Break experience. In order to go she and two friends needed to persuade Ellie's father or his girlfriend to take them to her condo. They all decided to write a letter and it worked. As I was reading this paper, I realized that it was vivid as well. Some of the scenes I could imagine in my head. It was like I was watching a movie. She also included great dialog that as a reader is always interesting to read. I finished Ellie's, made comments, and handed it back to her before lunch. I couldn't wait to read mine because I never had a chance to after class.

During tutorial, I finally had a chance to read my comments. As I opened my paper I was a little upset. I didn't receive a lot of comments which is good because people thought my writing was good, but its hard to edit off of no comments. Although I was a little upset, I didn't really mind. I was able to read two great papers that day, which made everything all better.