Choice... having choice is so important and it brings out so much more in a student, i know this personally and I know this from experience.
In my pre-internship last semester, my mentor teacher taught two totally different classrooms English 12 and Journalism. The dynamics of these two classes were so different. One being more structured and the other being much more free and relaxed. Even though the English 12 kids got to be creative in their writing and in their responses to whatever they were reading it was still told upon them of how and what process they were suppose to go along in order to get the job done. In Journalism the student could write whatever wanted to write, talk and bring to and discuss whatever was needed in order to get the task done. Students are more engaged and involved when they have choices. Even though Jago was not talking about this kind of choice with to this great extent, this is something that really captured me in the beginning of the chapter.
Even though I have never personally experienced learning how to distinguish between essays and also how to recognize when essayist where stating a thesis and their support, i like this idea. I think that this idea helps students to realize what they are doing in there essays and this sheet that Jago has passed out to her students even is excellent for students to use as they are writing their essays, this will help them have a layout and a direction for what they need.
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I sometimes wonder why the same teacher will have different expectations and classroom policies in different classes. While I understand having to acclimate freshmen to the rigors of high school, I have a problem with how differently "advanced" classes are taught over the mainstream classes. Teachers see the difference in results and thus reaffirm their suspicions about their students' relative abilities. Maybe they need to look at their own techniques first.
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