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.
See
Look
Observe
Notice
Glimpse
Glance
Squint
Stare
View
Search
Watch
Vista
Vision
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.
Odor
Stink
Fragrant
Perfume
Scent
Aroma
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.
Listen
Notice
Sound
Notice
Noise
Hum
Purr
Bang
Alarm
Buzz
Ring
Speakers
Loud
Soft
Volume
Whisper
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.
Flavor
Sour
Sweet
Bitter
Spicy
Bland
Savor
Tang
Tart
Savor
Delicious
Salty
Smooth
Gooey
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.
Feel
Cold
Hot
Warm
Soft
Smooth
Rough
Tap
Hug
Embrace
Hit
Hurt
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.
Continue with your worksheet
• 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?
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.