Today, October 26, we are going to talk about imagery.

Each person needs to have:•All Quiet on the Western Front

•Pen or pencil•Imagery Packet

Essential questions for October 26, 2009

1. What message is the author trying to get across?2. What makes words powerful?

imagery

What is imagery?

It is a writing technique that wakes up your senses.It can be attractive or unattractive to your senses.

Most definitions say that it appeals to your senses.

List words related to Sight• You now have 30 seconds. • In your packets, list at least 2 words in English or Spanish that

have to do with sight.SeeLook

ObserveNoticeGlimpseGlanceSquintStareView

SearchWatchVistaVision

Visualize

List words related to Smell

• You now have 20 seconds. • In your packets, list at least 2 words in English

or Spanish that have to do with smell.OdorStink

FragrantPerfumeScentAroma

Olifactory

List words related to Hearing• You now have 20 seconds. • In your packets, list at least 2 words in English or Spanish that

have to do with hearing.ListenNoticeSoundNoticeNoiseHumPurrBangAlarmBuzzRing

SpeakersLoudSoft

VolumeWhisper

List words related to Taste• You now have 20 seconds. • In your packets, list at least 2 words in English or Spanish that

have to do with taste.FlavorSourSweetBitterSpicyBlandSavorTangTart

SavorDelicious

SaltySmoothGooey

List words related to Touch• You now have 20 seconds. • In your packets, list at least 2 words in English or Spanish that

have to do with touch.FeelColdHot

WarmSoft

SmoothRoughTapHug

EmbraceHitHurt

Why is imagery important?

• It makes reading or writing interesting.

• It helps you connect to what the writer wants you to know.

• It helps the writer attract the reader.

• This is an easy one.• 1. Which sense is probably easiest to relate

the following word:

Hamburger

•2. Which sense would probably be the most difficult to relate to this word?

Continue with your worksheet

Adjective – describes a noun• Write one word that would positively

describe a hamburger. • Now, use a word that makes me

taste that hamburger.• Next, use a word that makes me

smell that hamburger.• Write a sentence that would make

me want to pay $10 for that hamburger because I know it will be one of the best hamburgers I’ve ever eaten.

Adjective – describes a noun

• Write one word that would negatively describe a hamburger.

• Write a sentence that would make me want to throw up if I was thinking about the hamburger.

Write a sentence to appeal to your sense of touch.Do not use the word soft.

Write a sentence to appeal to your sense of hearing.Do not use the word loud.

Write a sentence to appeal to appeal to your sense of sight.

Do not use the word crazy.

Write a sentence to appeal to your sense of taste.Do not use the words spicy or hot.

Write a sentence to appeal to your sense of smell.Do not use the word stink.

Do you believe that we can relate this to our book?

• In describing the horrors of war, what a better way to make you “imagine” the war than to make you feel it, see it, touch it, hear it, taste it.

• Chapter 4 of our book is full of imagery.

Learning Stations – you may work together in your stations.

• Station 1 – Read pages 17 and 18. Find 15 words that use imagery. Tell what senses these words relate to. When you have finished, answer the essential questions: What message is the author making? How can words be so powerful?

• Station 2 – Discuss the following topics in your group. Be able to tell me what other people in your group said. The men in this book are usually thought of as our enemies. Do you feel sorry for them? Can you relate to them; most of them are around your age. What if you had to stop going to school and had to go to war? Does this book of 1914 relate to war in 2009?

• Station 3 – Take turns reading a half page on pages 19 and 20. Read along silently as your classmate reads. (This will be good practice for presenting your research paper.)

• Station 4 – Go to the computer and copy and paste links to the wiki space of pictures of WW1 that you think relate to the book that we’re reading.

• Station 5 – Imagine that you are a soldier. Write a poem to a loved-one (boyfriend, girlfriend, mother, father, sister, brother, aunt, uncle, grandparent, etc.) Tell them about your experience of war. A poem does not have to rhyme.