Lesson4: Descriptive Essay: Exercise 2

Tuesday, October 6,2009

GOALS:
-Students will create a descriptive/ narrative essay describing their favorite possession.
-Vivid details should be used in place of naming the object and its purpose
Possession

Step 1: Think Sheet

The Planning Think Sheet will guide you through the process of choosing a topic and generating ideas that you might want to use in your essay.

http://www.elc.byu.edu/classes/buck/w_garden/guide/academic/descriptive/tsplan.html

1. Generate several ideas for your essay. Make lists and decide which object will work best for your topic. Next, pick an object.
2. Once you have generated some ideas for your descriptive essay, it is a good idea to think of sensory details that you can add to your description. Make a list of adjectives that describe how the object tastes, looks, feels, smells and sounds.

3. You will be required to use at LEAST three senses in your essay. (However, you may use all five)
4. In your essay, discuss the object's purpose without telling the reader the identity of your object
5. Tell how the object is used

Step 2: Putting It All Together
The Organizing Think Sheet will help you organize the information you generated with the Planning Think Sheet. When you have finished the Organizing Think Sheet and included all of the details listed above, you should be ready to begin writing your descriptive essay.

SPECIFICS:
-Students will create a descriptive/ narrative essay describing their favorite possession.
-Vivid details should be used in place of naming the object and its purpose

-Students will NOT directly identify the object/ possession in the essay

-Students must use creative description. **Your description may not be obvious.

For example, you may not say: It takes pictures....for any type of camera

-be creative.

AVOID SECOND PERSON AND CONTRACTIONS!


Academic Content Standard:
5.1.11A- Write with a distinctive focus.
1.5.11B- Write using well-developed content appropriate for the topic.
1.5.11C- Write with controlled organization
1.5.11D- Write with a command of the stylistic aspects of composition.