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What can you see?

What can you smell?. What can you see?. What can you touch?. What can you hear?. What can you taste?. Setting. 14/06/12. By the end of the lesson you will have:. C u sed detail based on sense impressions (what can be seen , heard, smelt, touched or tasted). B

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What can you see?

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  1. What can you smell? What can you see? What can you touch? What can you hear? What can you taste?

  2. Setting 14/06/12 By the end of the lesson you will have: C used detail based on sense impressions (what can be seen, heard, smelt, touched or tasted) B invented metaphors and similes to bring places alive and make the setting more believable A/A* created atmosphere (eg. what is hidden, what is dangerous, what looks unusual) LO: To create a vivid 1950s American setting

  3. In the following paragraph, underline words and phrases that draw on the senses of sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste. Rocking-Chair Saturday Our screened porch is a peaceful place to read and relax on a Saturday afternoon. Sitting in a creaking wooden rocker, I look through the gauzy wire screen into the back yard. From the top of a pine tree, a mockingbird scolds. In the distance, I hear the sleepy drone of a neighbor’s mower. A slight breeze wafts the tempting aroma of grilling hamburgers toward me. Prudence, my calico cat, pads out to join me, stretching out in a warm patch of sun near the screen door. I scoop her warm, furry body into my arms as she rumbles her approval. She settles into my lap, content to sit with me and enjoy the peace of the back porch.

  4. In the following paragraph, underline words and phrases that draw on the senses of sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste. Rocking-Chair Saturday Our screened porch is a peaceful place to read and relax on a Saturday afternoon. Sitting in a creakingwooden rocker, I look through the gauzy wire screeninto the back yard. From the top of a pine tree,a mockingbird scolds. In the distance, I hear the sleepy drone of a neighbor’s mower. A slight breeze wafts the tempting aroma of grilling hamburgers toward me. Prudence, my calico cat, pads out to join me, stretching out in a warm patch of sun near the screen door. I scoop her warm, furry body into my arms as she rumbles her approval. She settles into my lap, content to sit with me and enjoy the peace of the back porch.

  5. Task: Describe a 1950s American small town setting Success Criteria

  6. Seek thy inspiration from these picture prompts….

  7. earthy, cilantro perfumed glimpse, lemon grass, shimmering sun gritty, cushioned, foamy, tranquility, a twittering mochingbird, rustling, sour, sweet, bitter

  8. Uses description to paint a picture ….”the lawn started at the beach and ran towards sun-dials and brick walls and burning gardens – finally when it reached the house drifting up the side in bright vines as though from the momentum of its run.  The front was broken up by a line of French windows, glowing now with reflected gold and [...]

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