1. Warm-Up Day : 8/21/14
watch?v=bwYhhg4WkeY
After watching this video, tell me what do pictures have the power of doing?
Prefix: ad
Definition: toward
Examples:
adhere: to bring two things toward one another

2. WHAT & WHY
Today we are looking studying: how is language expressive of a culture? We will do this by studying sensory language. Why: Because sensory language is all around us and used to create images in our minds and these images influence us.

3. Sensory Language

4. flash bright sharp clear light dark large blue
Visual Imagery
Language that helps the reader “see”
Example Words
flash bright sharp clear light dark large blue

5. Auditory Images
Language used to help the reader “hear” what is taking place
Example Words
scream shout tone whisper ring utter nasal squeal quiet

6. Images of Smell Examples pungent fragrant sweet
Language that evokes smell for readers
Examples
pungent fragrant sweet
dank rich aroma stinky musty rotten odor foul
*Use of similes and metaphors help strengthen images of smell

7. Images of Taste Example Words
sweet sour salty bitter fresh juicy bland burnt zesty tangy

8. Images of Touch Example Words
This is language that can help the reader understand touch, temperature, movement, and feelings
Example Words
warm grasp sharp cold rugged joyful fuzzy hard

9. --highlight all the sensory words -- 3 sentences each.
Activity: Using Sensory Language
Some of the most famous photographs that changed the world are about to follow.
Your task is to use sensory language to describe what is taking place. You must do the following:
--highlight all the sensory words
-- 3 sentences each.

10. Example: The Kissing Sailor
Her white shoe lifts off the black asphalt softly as her knee bends towards him. People cheer in the street all around them as they stream out of brick store and office buildings as the news broadcast screams down the boulevard, “Victory! Victory!”
Alfred Eisenstaedt 1945

11. FLOWER POWER
Bernie Boston

12. Raising the Second Flag at Iwo Jima Joe Rosenthal Feb. 23, 1945

13. 1961 Hans Conrad Schumann jumping into West Berlin by Peter Leibing

14. CLOSURE
After today’s activity on sensory language being a tool to create images, and yesterday’s activity on the power of images to create a message answer the following question:
Which is more powerful: words or images? Explain your answer.