1. Do Now:
Brainstorm a list of everything you know or have learned about writing an essay.

2. What is missing from our list?
What kind of writing are we talking about?
Essay
Rhetorical Modes

3. Aim: How do you write a description?
Rhetorical modes
Rhetorical forms
Modes of Discourse
essays with a particular purpose and organization
Description
Narration
Exemplification
Definition
Process analysis
Classification/Division
Compare/Contrast
Cause-Effect
Persuasion

4. Aim: How do you write a description?
Depicts images verbally in space and arranges those images in a spatial pattern
Relies heavily on imagery and sensory details
Enables readers to see what you see, hear what you hear, etc.

5. Aim: How do you write a description?
Create a Dominant Impression (thesis)--the mood or quality
Use Descriptive Language (Denotative and connotative)
Enhance with figurative language (Metaphor and simile)
Organize with spatial pattern
Develop a point of view

6. It was a narrow room, with a rather high ceiling, and crowded from floor to ceiling with goodies. There were rows and rows of hams and sausages of all shapes and colors—white, yellow, red, and black; fat and lean and round—rows of canned preserves, cocoa and tea, bright translucent glass bottles of honey, marmalade, and jam; round bottles and slender bottles, filled with liqueurs and punch-all these things crowded every inch of the shelves from top to bottom.

7. Aim: How do you write a description?
Sensory Details
Dominant Impression

8. Aim: How do you write a description?
Dominant impression
Sensory Details
Figurative Language
Adjective(s)

9. Aim: How do you write a description?
Sensory Details #1
Similes and metaphors (#3)
Dominant Impression (#1)

10. Aim: How do you write a description?
Introduce readers to a place that you have visited. For example, you might take readers into an unfamiliar or exotic world—a scuba diving expedition, a spelunking adventure, or a boat trip through the Everglades. Or you could encourage readers to visit a favorite museum, historic district, or park (or discourage them from visiting a place you found disappointing). Or you could introduce readers to a foreign country or an ethnic neighborhood with which you are familiar.

11. Homework #3
Complete the graphic organizer posted online (like the one we did in class) for your “place”.

12. Aim: How do you write a description?
Sensory Details—Include at least ONE detail for each SENSE. For example, “the dingy paint” or “the slender bottles”.
Figurative Language—Create at least THREE similes and/or metaphors to describe your place. For example, “bright as the sun,” “like a condemned slum,” or “a sea of troubles.”
Dominant Impression—List three descriptive adjectives you want to emphasize about the mood, quality or atmosphere of your “place.” For example, “welcoming,” “beautiful,” “disgusting,” or “ominous.”