Transcript ME_Visual3_1

Revise for
Clarity of
Meaning
• Objective: Students will
emphasize the most meaningful parts
of their snapshots with detailed
action.
• Focusing Question: What is the
most important part of your
snapshot?
• Strategy: To determine the most
meaningful part of the snapshot by
creating a timeline.
Focusing Question | Mini Lesson | Writer’s Work Time | Lesson Summary
Mini Lesson
• Revision is a way of making
your writing clearer and more
interesting. It is different than
editing.
• Writers emphasize the most
meaningful part of their
memory by stretching that
moment, or writing the most
about it.
• One way to stretch the
moment is to create a timeline
of that event and add action.
Focusing Question | Mini Lesson | Writer’s Work Time | Lesson Summary
Writer’s
Work Time
1. Open the most recent draft of your
snapshot.
2. Create a timeline of the events in your
snapshot in your writer’s notebook or
using Make a Timeline (Handout 3.1a).
3. Include the most important parts of
your memory in the timeline.
4. Star the part that is the most
meaningful and make a second
timeline of that part.
5. Look for gaps in time and mark those
places with an X on your draft.
6. Add action to those places
7. Resave your snapshot in the Step 3
activity Submit Your Revised
Snapshot.
Focusing Question | Mini Lesson | Writer’s Work Time | Lesson Summary
Lesson
Summary
• What part of the snapshot did
you expand?
• How did you add action to
stretch the moment?
Writers’ Practices:
– Revise work to improve its
meaning and to engage
readers.
Focusing Question | Mini Lesson | Writer’s Work Time | Lesson Summary