1. Welcome Work: 1. Take out your 6 Word Memoir and novel.
OERs & Imagery 9/9/14 Learning Objectives: Can I revise my OER? Can I use imagery in my writing?
Welcome Work: 1. Take out your 6 Word Memoir and novel.
2. Label a piece of paper with today’s title, LO (Learning Objective), and date.

2. Cut off your rubric for the 6 Word Memoir.
PAPER CLIP your 6WM to the rubric.

3. Week 3 Vocabulary
foreshadowing
From a BOOK!
irony
imagery

4. Is it a noun? Adjective? Adverb?
palpable
Is it a noun? Adjective? Adverb?
indolent

5. OER Review– Common problems:
Answer
Was incorrect. Significant=IMPORTANT.
Had more than ONE trait listed. You must pick ONE.
Proof
Was too long or not relevant
Explanation
Redundant (which means you’ve already said it)
One Quoyle’s most significant character traits is that he’s lonely. The text states, “nothing was clear to lonesome Quoyle.” This proves he was lonely.

6. Imagery: Descriptive words or phrases that appeal to the 5 senses:
Sight
Sound
Touch
Taste
Smell
Imagery creates a picture in the reader’s mind.

7. Words that tell..Sight what would you see ? what would it look like?
Examples: old, frail, sunny, shy, hysterical,
healthy, broken, fresh, tall, round,

8. Words that tell…Sound what would you hear ? what does it sound like?
Examples: shout, thud, whistle, clatter

9. Words that tell…Taste what would you taste ? what does it taste like?
Examples: sweet, burnt, buttery, salty, warm, crisp, tangy

10. Words that tell…Smell what does it smell like?
how does it smell?
what does it smell like?
Examples: musty, fresh, spicy, piney

11. Words that tell…Touch/Feeling
what does it feel like?
how does it feel?
Examples: sharp, smooth,
tickly, warm, fuzzy, dry

12. Now, see how many examples of imagery you can find.
“ Walls of thick vegetation rose up on all sides and arched overhead in a lacy canopy that filtered the light to a soft shade. It had just rained; the air was hot and steamy. I felt enclosed in a semitropical terrarium, sealed off from a world that suddenly seemed a thousand miles away.”
- From Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
by John Berendt

13. “The Most Dangerous Game”
On a separate piece of paper, describe the setting of the most dangerous place you can think of.
You cannot directly say what the setting is. Instead, include imagery. Consider all five senses:
What you see
What you hear
What you smell
What you feel (touch)
What you taste
You have FIVE MINUTES.

14. Hand them in!
You will be given someone’s description of the “worst place in the world.”
You have to DRAW it.
You have FIVE minutes!

15. The Most Dangerous Game
You will read the first 2 pages of the text.
You must highlight THREE pieces of imagery from the text as you read.

16. Homework Due Thursday, September 11 Re-write your OER again
Vocabulary worksheet
Read the first 2 pages of The Most Dangerous Game and highlight 3 instances of imagery.