Looking Through Lenses: Our First Look

Group Members:

Reading Text:

1. In three or four sentences please summarize the plot of the book.
2. What were some of the most important things you noticed about the text before we read our discussion of lenses?
3. Which two lenses do you think might be most useful to apply to this text?
4. Which lenses do you think might not be particularly useful? Why?
5. Now try applying the two lenses that you selected in #3.

Lens 1

When we viewed this book through the lenses, we looked at:

The lenses helps us see the following things that we didn’t notice before:

Therefore we see that this might be a book about:

Lens 2

When we viewed this book through the lenses, we looked at:

The lenses helps us see the following things that we didn’t notice before:

Therefore we see that this might be a book about: