Thirty Days to Unlock FCAT Writing Success - Polk County School ...
Thirty Days to Unlock FCAT Writing Success - Polk County School ...
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Week Six, Day Four and Five: Fine-tune Your Powers of Observation and Description<br />
Stepping In<strong>to</strong> a Painting<br />
Objective: Students will use the "Stepping in<strong>to</strong> a Painting" handout <strong>to</strong> create a descriptive essay.<br />
Time: One class period<br />
• Instruct students <strong>to</strong> select a fairly large picture from the following art pieces.<br />
• Ask students <strong>to</strong> take out a clean sheet of paper and copy the sentence frames below<br />
from an overhead transparency as they examine the picture.<br />
• After filling out the handout, students will use the information <strong>to</strong> write a descriptive<br />
essay in first person point of view.<br />
STEPPING INTO A PAINTING HANDOUT<br />
1. What is your first response or reaction <strong>to</strong> the picture? What emotions are awakened in you?<br />
2. I am standing_________________. (Tell exactly where.)<br />
3. From here I can see________, but I can't see.____________.<br />
4. I notice the temperature is ______, and I think the time of day is ____because______.<br />
5. I am able <strong>to</strong> identify the figures of ________, and I imagine he/she (they) is (are) saying, "____."<br />
6. Tasting the scene reminds me of the taste of _____and when I <strong>to</strong>uch ( any part of the scene; name<br />
one)_____it feels like_______.<br />
7. I do ( do not) feel comfortable and safe in my surroundings because_____; furthermore, it<br />
reminds me of_____(perhaps a place you've been).<br />
8. As I take a closer look at the scene, I notice that at first I overlooked_____.<br />
9. Standing in these surroundings, I recall memories of _____(people, places, events, sights, or<br />
ambiguous things like memories).<br />
10. As I take a final look at this scene, I notice_____which I had not noticed before.<br />
11. Give the painting/picture a title.<br />
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