descriptive reading

Think about the best hamburger you’ve ever eaten. Describe this experience in detail.

If you don’t eat hamburgers, think of a favorite sandwich you like and describe the experience of eating it.

Descriptive EssayRead in GW Introduction to the

Narrative on Page 58 including the essay “Buck Fever”

How writers use words to create images in your mind

Think of an instance that you want to describe. Why is this particular instance important? What were you doing? What other things were happening around

you? Is there anything specific that stands out in your mind?

Where were objects located in relation to where you were?

How did the surroundings remind you of other places you have been?

What sights, smells, sounds, and tastes were in the air?

Did the sights, smells, sounds, and tastes remind you of anything?

What were you feeling at that time? Has there been an instance in which you have

felt this way before? What do you want the reader to feel after

reading the paper?

What types of words and images can convey this feeling?

Can you think of another situation that was similar to the one you are writing about? How can it help explain what you are writing about?

Is there enough detail in your essayto create a mental image for the reader?

The plot concerns a previously domesticated and even somewhat

pampered dog named Buck, whose primordial instincts return after a series of events finds him

serving as a sled dog in the treacherous, frigid Yukon during

the days of the 19th-centuryPublished in 1903, The Call of the Wild is one of London's most-read

books, and it is generally considered one of his best.

Handout – “The Football Experience”

Our Mutual Friend by Charles DickensIt is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is in many

ways one of his most sophisticated works, combining deep

psychological insight with rich social analysis. At one level it

centres on, in the words of critic J. Hillis Miller, "money, money,

money, and what money can make of life" but in a deeper sense it also

about 'human values'.

I need two volunteers.Sit with your backs together. Person A describes a picture while person B draws it. The twist is that A cannot tell B what the picture is. They can only use words like “draw a line half way up your paper,” or “there’s a dotted triangle towards the middle of the picture.