HOMS 5.1

Do now: Share your homework freewrite with a partner (5 minutes).

Objectives:

• explain the effect of figurative language & imagery
• select a good writing topic

Agenda:

1. Do Now

2. Freewrite: In notability, please write (4-5 sentences): Suppose you woke up one morning to find that (everyone had disappeared, there was no electricity, telephones stopped working, the world had run out of gasoline, the Earth had left its orbit, etc.) Write an account for future generations of what life is like with this sudden change.

3. Read samples of vignettes

4. Review Vignette assignment

5. Complete the graphic organizer in the “Vignette Graphic Organizer” PDF for ONE experience

6. Summarizer: What does it mean to show and not tell in descriptive writing?

HW: TWO GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS: 1) Plot graphic orgnanizer (on Notability), 2) Complete the character chart for the “characters” in your vignette.  Draft two sentences for each character- one sentence describing them physically, one sentence describing their personality