Session 14: Editing with Lenses and Independence Turn to a fresh page in your notebooks. I’m going to give you ten seconds to look around this classroom and then I’m going to ask you to do something. Take in as much information as you can when you look. Now, list absolutely everything you just saw in your notebook!

Repeat with Literature as your Focus Look around the room with the lens of literature. Look for 10 seconds with a focus on literature. List everything literature that you saw!

Another Lens Look through the lens of furniture… List everything you saw.

Last Lens Look through the lens of people. List everything you saw. Turn and talk with your partner about all four lists you just made. Remember that lenses are powerful. When we try to look at everything, we inevitably miss something. When we look with lenses, even many times, we can see so much more!

Teaching Point Today I want to teach you that writers can use lenses in their writing, to study things for them to work on, such as editing. One way they do that is to pick an area where they will likely need help and sweep through their piece looking for and bettering those places.

Try this… (Handouts) Use the editing lens of spelling to fix this student example. Write it in your notebook fixing the examples as you go… Work! A 9:21 we broke out the caffine and chocolate bars. That night we ended up staying up till 10:57 and were having a sleepover at Ruby’s house. In the morning we hussled to the buss together talking science all the way. Besides spelling, what else might need to be changed?

You are now editors! In your notebooks write this paragraph and then do the assignment below. When I got home know one is home but my oldest brother Jason. So when I got home I had my snack did my homework and then watched tv untill my got home. By the time mom got home it was 6:30. So she had made dinnier told me to take a shower and by 9:30 it was bedtime and I said okay. 9:30 came I said good night to everyone and I set my alarm and I fell asleep. To Do: Read the paragraph and check for and fix end punctuation. Then read it again fixing tenses. Then read it again and do a final check for commas.

Work Time! As you begin working on editing your own story, remember that we need to take this job very seriously! You need to read your story multiple times, each time with a different lens! Check for the following: Punctuation Spelling Does it make sense? Assess yourself against the rubric again. You can add to the old one or start with a fresh copy. Make sure you gave your story a title, shared it with me and printed a version to be turned in! Your finished stories are due tomorrow!