COMING TO YOUR SENSESThe Giver

8th SB 1.23

PURPOSE

To recognize sensory details To illustrate sensory details for description

VISUALIZATION

As I read the first few pages of chapter 11, close your eyes and visualize the scene.

What parts of the description do you remember most clearly?

How can the use of descriptive details add meaning to a subject?

How important is prior knowledge when reading?

TERMS TO KNOW

Sensory Details Details that appeal to the five senses Through sensory details, authors create

Imagery which makes writing vivid by using figurative

language to create word pictures

“THE HEARTIEST OF SEASON’S GREETINGS”AS WE READ, HIGHLIGHT NELSON’S SENSORY DETAILS.

Sight Meadow reaching to

the shore Watching the day

progress and the seasons change

Deer and chickadees visiting

Sound Music rounding out the

day Smell

Wild rose hedges dark evergreens

Taste Delicious highland

cranberries vegetables for his

table Touch

Wood lot providing firewood and muscle tone

cutting own Christmas tree

“THE HEARTIEST OF SEASON’S GREETINGS”

What is the tone of Carl Nelson’s holiday postcard?

How does his use of sensory details convey this tone?

What is the tone of the sledding scene in The Giver?

How do the sensory details convey this tone?

WHAT IS THE MOST VIVID MEMORY YOU HAVE?

What do you see?

Wha

t do

you

hear

?

What do you taste?

What do you smell?

What do you touch?

WRITING ABOUT A MEMORY

Describe the events in your memory in an essay or poem.

Use the descriptions from the previous activity to create word pictures (imagery).

When you finish… explain your choice of color and detail within

your visualization how did you convey the tone in your description?