In our writing lesson this morning, we’ve been planning a setting description that we will write in the next few days. The stimulus for our writing is a short animation called Eye of the Storm.
Children have been tasked with planning descriptive phrases and figurative language that they will use in their pieces. You’ll see in the photos that children are using thesauruses to help them choose vocabulary that will bring their descriptions to life.
Here are a few examples of the descriptive ideas we came up with in the lesson:
“The black, ominous clouds were choking the airship as lightning flooded the sky.” Sasha.
“He stood there as lonely as the bruised fruit in the bottom of his fruit bowl.” Leah
“Wire protruded out of his throne-like chair. Ready, he sat calmly like a breeze dancing in June.” Saahir
“The peculiar man stood lonely and in grief as he watched the oppressive sun rise above the clouds.” Khadija
“Like man against Mother Nature, the stuttering airship fought for its life against the ever growing tempest in the sky.” Sam