The document outlines a creative writing lesson focused on using imagery to engage readers, particularly through examples from literature and song. It discusses the significance of visual and auditory imagery, providing exercises for students to explore these concepts in their surroundings. The lesson aims to enhance the students' sensory awareness and appreciation of creative expression.

1. Use imagery to evoke
meaningful responses from
readers
Ryan Leyco Faura | Teacher
Creative Writing | Week 1

2. Objective, deconstructed

3. Song Exploder
01
Or any piece of art that we
interject to start the learning
Sneak Preview
02
Bite-sized challenges to whet your
appetite for fun and games
Mini Challenge
03
The demystification of the topic at
hand
Discussion
04
That one activity to rule them all,
not necessarily in grandeur or
complexity, but of points
Maxi Challenge

4. Song Exploder

5. Pocahontas
“Have you ever heard the wolf-cry to
the blue-corn moon?”

7. This was the theme song to Pocahontas, the hugely
popular animated Disney film about the Native
American princess who saved the life of American
explorer John Smith, ultimately contributing to the
founding of the United States.
The song finds Pocahontas chastising Smith for his
arrogance and ignorance, telling him that he doesn't
understand the wonders of nature. The line "Can you
paint with all the colors of the wind?" is where she
makes the point that even though he stakes his claim
to the Earth, he doesn't know how to nurture it.
About the Song

8. Mini
Challenge

9. Look around you. List down the things
that you can consider to be ‘imagery’.

10. I beg you to know
this!
Imagery is not all for eyes.

12. Practical exercise

13. VISUAL
It appeals to the reader’s sense of
sight by describing something the
speaker or narrator sees.
Concept 1 Concept 2
Without a doubt, this is the most
common form of imagery. As we
now know, it evokes vivid images
of the characters and scenery.

14. In the hard-packed dirt of the midway, after the
glaring lights are out and the people have gone to
bed, you will find a veritable treasure of popcorn
fragments, frozen custard dribblings, candied apples
abandoned by tired children, sugar fluff crystals,
salted almonds, popsicles, partially gnawed ice
cream cones and wooden sticks of lollipops.
(Charlotte’s Web, E.B. White)

15. Against the bluest sky I have ever seen were clouds of
all
shapes: A clown, a child blowing bubbles, the rock of
Gibraltar, the Buckingham Palace and, most
bizarrely,
separated from the vast expanse, a cat chasing a
spool of
thread. ( Cumulus, Ryan Leyco Faura)

17. AUDITORY
It appeals to the reader’s sense of
hearing or sound. It may include
music and other pleasant sounds,
harsh noises, or silence.
Concept 1 Concept 2
In literature, it means to use
words and literary devices in a way
that they make readers experience
sounds when reading poetry or
prose.

18. Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet
yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat
against its steep sides; then all collapsed,
and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as
it rolled five thousand years ago. ( Moby
Dick, Herman Meville

19. I walked the miles and went home. I
plugged the iPod on my ear. Adele burst into
tearful tirade.
( A Tale of Two Tickets, Ryan Leyco Faura)

20. The AV Club
He took her hand and led her to the
edge of the cliff. The verdant glades
that spread before them dazzled her
with every shade of green.
The tall trees loomed over me, lightly
swaying in the breeze. I could hear a
rabbit scurry across the forest floor
and feel the crack of the twigs
underneath my feet.
The great clock strikes twelve, the
chimes cutting through the noisy
hustle and bustle of the city. The
incessant honks of impatient drivers
fill my ears whilst the faint melody
from the guitar of a street busker
sounds in the distance.

21. The AV Club
The sea awoke at midnight from its sleep, And
round the pebbly beaches far and wide I heard
the first wave of the rising tide Rush onward
with uninterrupted sweep; A voice out of the
silence of the deep, A sound mysteriously
multiplied As of a cataract from the mountain’s
side, Or roar of winds upon a wooded steep.
Together, they sat at the
shoreline. The shimmering sun
was sinking into the sea and, as
it disappeared, she told him
they’d never meet again.
She couldn’t sleep. So, she got
out of bed, trailed through the
delicate slips of moonlight
twinkling in the frost-covered
glass, and turned on the kettle.

22. Maxi
Challenge

23. For 5 minutes, go around the school.
Look for things that can be considered
as visual or auditory imagery.
Describe them in words.

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How can you use your
knowledge in Visual /
Auditory Imagery to
better your life?

25. What specific experiences
that awakened
your senses
In the past
remember them?
You have had
and why you will

26. Thank you for wanting to learn today!