1. Warm Up
NORMS:
Time: 5 Minutes
Movement: None
Voice: Silent
Purpose: Review sensory details
While listening to Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World,” make a bulleted list of as many sensory details that you hear.
Remember: sight, smell, hear, touch, taste

2. Take a META MOMENT
Based on what you already know about sensory details, work as a TEAM to find ONE FANTASTIC EXAMPLE in a book. Write your example on a post-it (and the book it came from), with your names on the back.

3. I can Identify effective use of sensory and figurative language.
Warm Up: 5 Senses
Sensory Details in Independent Reading
“Can you Sense it?”
Agenda

4. Can you sense it? Revising the Middle.
Lesson 1.8 (page 36)

5. Activity 1.8 Can you Sense it? Revising the Middle
Setting a Purpose for Reading “Why Couldn’t I Have Been Named Ashley?” p. 36:
As you read, look for sensory details. Mark them in the text by placing them in brackets [ ], or use a light highlighter.
Circle unknown words and phrases. Try to determine the meaning of the words by using context clues, word parts, or a dictionary.

6. “Why Couldn’t I Have Been Named Ashley?” by Imma Achilike [p 38]
As you read, look for sensory details. Mark them in the text by placing them in brackets [ ], or use a light highlighter.
Key Ideas and Details: What kind of lead is used to hook the reader? Give textual evidence.
Craft and Structure: Find an example of visual sensory language used in paragraph 4. How does this language make the incident more vivid?

7. 4. Working from the Text (p. 39)
Complete the graphic organizer to analyze the organization and use of language in “Why Couldn’t I Have Been Named Ashley?”

8. Warm Up Use sensory details to describe the image to the right.
[See, Smell, Hear, Touch, Taste]

9. Revising the “Choice” Narrative – 3 focus areas
The LEAD: action, reaction, dialogue
The middle: LOOPING to add sensory details & figurative language
The end: REFLECTION and COHERENCE

10. Looping look at my surroundings. I could not imagine a
Looping is a revision strategy in which you underline an important sentence and then add two sentences of additional elaboration. Use looping to add additional information to images, using sensory details or figurative language.
Which sentence could you “loop” and elaborate upon in the paragraph below?
As we left the cabin, I paused to take a
look at my surroundings. I could not imagine a
more beautiful fall day. I knew we were going to
have a great time.

11. LOOPING As we left the cabin, I paused to
The air was crisp but not too chilly, and the blue sky was perfectly clear of clouds. Sunlight glinted off of the red, brown, and yellow leaves as they moved with the breeze, making them sparkle like gems.
As we left the cabin, I paused to
take a look at my surroundings.
I could not imagine a more
beautiful fall day. I knew we
were going to have a great time.

12. Return to your sentence image description in your R/W Notebook
Return to your sentence image description in your R/W Notebook. Use the LOOPING STRATEGY to add two sentences of additional elaboration. *Use sensory details and figurative language!*

13. Grab your personal narrative draft!
Switch narratives with a partner!
Each of you will choose ONE sentence in your partner’s narrative that adds an image. Loop this sentence, and then hand the narrative back to the author.
On your own narrative, use LOOPING to add additional information with SENSORY DETAILS and FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE.

20. Looping Practice: SHOW – don’t tell.
I could not imagine a more beautiful fall day. The crisp weather reminded me to grab a sweater from the closet. As I left my apartment, I saw several amber-colored leaves drift delicately to meet the pavement.
Just then the professor turned and, with an odd smile on his face, threw open the door to his laboratory. His maniacal laughter filled the room as he looked upon his experiment: a two headed Doberman with a ferocious bark who was created to guard the professor’s collection of Pokémon cards.

21. Tuesday 9/19 – We need Springboard books & the rough draft of your “choice narrative”
Reminder: Evidence of independent reading is due Friday 9/22. If you are absent, you must turn it in on Thursday OR it to me on Friday. Any work turned in after Friday will lose points for being late.
Reminder: 30 minutes of Membean this week 
Announcement: If you love to write stories, please come to my room during Mav Block this Thursday to hear about NaNoWriMo! 
Do Now: If you have not turned in your three sentences using 3 Membean words in context, do that NOW. If you have turned yours in, please read or work on Membean for 10 minutes.