Purpose:  Descriptive writing requires the writier to manipulate words and sentences in such a way that the reader can acutally visualize what it is that the writer is describing. The purpose of these descriptive writing activities is to allow the student to continue to practice using the craft of figurative language in his/her writting and to introduce the students to participles,absolutes and appositives. Students will incoporate figurative language, participles, absolutes appositives in their writing to sharpen the snapshots they create in the descriptive writing activies within this unit of study.

Descriptive Writing Activities:

Generating An Attention Grabbing Lead: Opening paragraphs can be the roadmap of a story. In this writing activity, students will read an engaging and well-crafted paragraph from Brave Margaret: An Irish Adventure, which draws the reader in. They will use the style of the author to create their own opening paragraph as the basis for a story they would like to write by playing the serendipitous (random) noun game.

Snapshot/Interior Monologue Activity: Students will once again use the serendipitious noun game to choos a character, setting and conflict. Students will then write a description of the character using figurative language, participles and absolutes in their writing to sharpen the description of their character.

Description of a Face Writing Activity: Students will be assigned someone from their class to describe the face of that individual using figurative language, participles and absolutes in their description.

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