Christopher I. Cobitz Ph.D.
Some
obvious uses include….doing drafts on the computer to rewrite for the writing
process, writing and posting on the web, doing newspapers and newsletters.
A
more complete unit is….
After
teaching some of the fundamentals of descriptive writing, allow the students to
hunt on the net for photos of locations.
Require them to acquire three different pictures. The first should be a landscape (no people
allowed), the second should be a person, and the third should be an animal.
The
project is to have the students place the three photos into a document. The student should then write a descriptive
paragraph on each photo (focusing on the characteristics of the photo’s main
character or setting). For each photo
the student should also write an additional paragraph with characteristics that
are not observed.
Finally
the student should be asked to write a story combining the person, the animal
and the location. A possible pre
writing activity could be to read an adventure such as call of the wild.
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