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Be More Descriptive. Valentine Monster Project. Project Directions. Collect materials for your Monster Bag Body Eyes Mouth Nose Arms, Legs, Hands, & Feet Horns, Spikes, Etc. Create your Monster. 8 minutes. Warning!! Warning!! Monster Teacher may speak too fast!!
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Be More Descriptive Valentine Monster Project
Project Directions • Collect materials for your Monster • Bag • Body • Eyes • Mouth • Nose • Arms, Legs, Hands, & Feet • Horns, Spikes, Etc. • Create your Monster 8 minutes
Warning!! Warning!! Monster Teacher may speak too fast!! If this happens, please give her the slow down sign.
Monster Valentine By: Alexander Gordon Smith (modified) Group 1 Lines 1-4 Group 2 Lines 5-8 Group 3 Lines 9-12 Group 4 Lines 13-16
How to choose descriptive words for poetry K-Know your audience S- Synonyms S- Syllables
darling, dear, sweetheart The first time that I saw you, love, twas in the deepest shade. My heart did race, my stomach turned, and up my mind was made.
I have to try, I have to ask, I have to make you mine. • I beg you, please, you have to be my monster valentine. implore, beseech, entreat, ask
blisters Love ne’er before have mine eyes seen so many pustules seep, Nor skin so slick, nor mouth so skewed, nor sores that run so deep. leak
vomit, puke, spew, hurl Your beauty makes me want to barf into a cooking pot. I’d add some toes, a big green nose, then season it with snot. mucus snivel
slow-cook I’d stew it then until it formed, a ripe smelly stew And decorate it with snaggily teeth, just a few. Adorn, embellish, garnish, trim, deck
Puff, waft, smell My love, this would but be a taste, a whiff of what’s to come: For main we’d feast on bright red heart and roasted monkey thumb.
Stomach, paunch, tummy And if, my dear, this did not fill your beauteous bulging belly, For sweet I’d make a special dish of skunk smelling jelly. dessert, goodie
What say you love?I have to know.Please say that you’ll be mine. I beg you, please … please say you’ll be, my monster valentine. love, sweetheart
How can you choose descriptive words for poetry? K-Know your audience S- Synonyms S- Syllables
Other Ways To Say.... Pretty
How can you choose descriptive words for poetry? K-Know your audience S- Synonyms S- Syllables
Poem Directions Write a rough draft descriptive poem about your monster on notebook paper Revise your poem using “Other Ways to Say” words Write your poem on the Poem Paper and glue to the back of your Monster Bag
How can you choose descriptive words for poetry? K-Know your audience S- Synonyms S- Syllables