14. descriptive writing and adjectives

Writing 1IECP

Summer 2013

Nikki Mattson

HW

Collect timed writing and Editing Log

Would you rather…

Be ugly and have a beautiful spouse

OR

Be beautiful and have an ugly spouse?

Agenda

Computer Lab – process paragraph editing

Descriptive writing

Computer Lab – Boucke 112

Edit process paragraph

Editing Log for process paragraph

Comment on other student’s writings

Descriptive Writing

Finish your descriptive picture and paragraph

Draw other group’s picture

Adjectives

Pgs. 104-109

Adjective-mix sentence game

Adjective game

Draw 2 adjectives and a noun and make a sentence

Draw 2 adjectives and a noun and make a sentence

Draw 3 adjectives and a noun and make a sentence

Draw 3 adjectives and a noun and make a sentence

Draw 4 adjectives and a noun and make a sentence

Draw 4 adjectives and a noun and make a sentence

Examples

The two beautiful blond women are talking.

Those fifty poor black dogs are hungry.

The three little African birds like to fly.

Adjective Order Chart

Descriptive Writing

(pairs or alone)

Choose picture

Brainstorm vocabulary and adjectives

Choose main idea

Chose spatial organization

(individually)

Write a descriptive paragraph about your picture

HW

Print + Post first draft of picture description