On a clean page in your Writers Notebook write todays date and label the page Imagery and Descriptive Language Inspirational Quote Think of yourself as a focusing a camera lense ID: 501027
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Imagery and Descriptive LanguageSlide2
On a clean page in your Writer’s Notebook, write today’s
date
and label the page,
“Imagery and Descriptive Language”Slide3
Inspirational Quote
“Think of yourself as a focusing a camera
lense
as you write, always striving to make the picture clearer, sharper, more detailed.”
-Martin
Espada
What does this quote mean as a poet?Slide4
Teaching Point:
Poets observe the world around and write about the small daily events and the stories that suggest ideas and stories.Slide5
Example #1: Winter Bus Stop
We are waiting for the bus in the cold winter morning. It is freezing. We are bundled up and shivering. Finally, the bus arrives, and we are relieved to get out of the cold. Slide6
Example #2: Winter Bus Stop
The naked winter trees line the avenue. Our breath rises in visible puffs to join the darkened clouded night sky. There is a freezing chill in the air that brings crispness to the leaves,
jewelled
with frost, that crunch underfoot. Rosy cheeked, we stamp to keep warm, pulling
woollen
hats over our reddened ears and tightening scarves over our blue-tinged lips. Teeth chatter and the cold seeps into our gloves numbing our fingers until they cease to bend properly, stiffened and frigid. Suddenly the illuminated sign on the bus appears, trundling slowly down the icy black road and we raise our arms to hail it.Slide7
Imagery
Definition:
Using the five senses (taste, touch, sight, smell, and sound) to take the reader to the place and show the reader the situation instead of just telling him about it.
****Be sure to copy the five senses into your writer’s notebook so that you can refer to them later. Slide8
Good Imagery
Good IMAGERY uses the five of the senses to create an overall impression of what it describes. It should transport the reader to the scene.
It does NOT tell what it looks like, tastes like, feels like, smells like, or sounds like, but rather describes each of those senses.Slide9
Imagery Practice
Use your vivid verb list and descriptive adjective list to make the sentences you were provided with more detailed and interesting. Slide10
Imagery Poems: Identify Imagery and Figurative Language
“Summer” by Walter Dean Meyers
I
like hot days, hot days
Sweat is what you got days
Bugs
buzzin
from cousin to cousin
Juices dripping
Running and ripping
Birds peeping
Old men sleeping
Lazy days, daisies lay
Beaming and dreaming
Of hot days, hot daysSlide11
This Is Just to Say
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold Slide12
BLACKBERRY EATING
I
love to go out in late September
among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries
to eat blackberries for breakfast,
the stalks very prickly, a penalty
they earn for knowing the black art
of blackberry-making; and as I stand among them
lifting the stalks to my mouth, the ripest berries
fall almost unbidden to my tongue,
as words sometimes do, certain peculiar words
like
strengths
and
squinched
,
many-lettered, on-syllabled lumps,
which I squeeze,
squinch
open, and splurge well
in the silent, startled, icy, black language
of blackberry-eating in late September.Slide13
Independent Practice:
Read the remaining poems on your handout, identifying as much imagery and figurative language as you can. Underline and label your examples!