Students have been exploring various forms of figurative language to make their writing more impactful and fresh. They are delving into comparison with their use of metaphor and simile. They are learning to personify nouns, projecting human qualities to the inanimate objects they are writing about and enjoying adding onomatopoeias to sentences that need to sound particularly real or fun.
Amidst lessons to strengthen these skills our students have been viewing one-minute film clips in class and then immediately write paragraphs describing the imagery they observed. Their paper is a blank canvas that they are adding color, mood, sound, and scent to. After their initial write, they share out phrases they particularly like and are proud of, or decide to share the entire piece. The students then receive feedback from one and other. They later go back into their writing finding places to expand their comparisons and descriptions with their added figurative language tool kit.
The students are enjoying the process and are adding their own characters and twists to the clips they have viewed. Although we all watch the same one minute clip it is uncanny how varied and different each students paragraph is.
The students are enjoying the process and are adding their own characters and twists to the clips they have viewed. Although we all watch the same one minute clip it is uncanny how varied and different each students paragraph is.
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