AP Language and Composition Ms. Bugasch

December 4, 2013 “D” Day

Goals 1. Write using the rhetorical

mode of description

FFW

•Choose from the following options and brainstorm

•Review rubric

Descriptive writing• Option 1: In The Great Gatsby, the billboard of Doctor T. J.

Eckleburg dominates the valley of ashes. Look at the beginning of Chapter 2 where the billboard is first described to see how Fitzgerald uses that description to create an ironic commentary. Then consider the landscape here. Look for a billboard (perhaps in your town or on your drive to school) that seems ironic. Describe the landscape and the billboard to suggest an ironic commentary on the scene you depict. Avoid directly stating why the scene is ironic

• Option 2: Describe a scene or moment in nature from which we can learn a valuable lesson. Try to suggest that lesson through your description. Avoid directly stating the lesson.

• Option 3: Describe a person whom you know personally and who is important in your life. Through your description, convey the character of the person, that which makes him or her interesting and special, without directly explaining it.

Requirements • 1 paragraph • Include vivid words that appeal to all FIVE

senses • Pay attention to diction • Use objective and subjective descriptions • Irony, message/lesson, and/or why person is

special should all be indirectly explained and not directly stated

• Pay attention to denotation vs. connotation • At least 250 words

Closure

•Share choices and topics

homework

1. Revise and edit descriptive paragraphs