1. List in Writer’s Notebook
 Brainstorm pairs of
contrasting images.
 Can you find two as
strikingly different
as kitties and guns?
Flowers and rocks?

2. Class List…

3. Quick write (WNB)
 Pick your favorite pair.
 Develop each image with specific details, arranging
the two images in alternating lines or sentences in a
poem/paragraph.

4. Share/Discuss…
 What effects do you achieve?

5. “The Giant Water Bug”
 Discuss
 Submit responses

6. Open Mic Model Session
 Mrs. Mundy

7. More with Sensory Imagery
Show & Tell/ Childhood Images – see
worksheet.
Use the object you brought in or a childhood
object to complete the handout.

8. More with Imagery
I’LL COLLECT THESE NEXT EXERCISES.

9. Sound - Paper
 Choose a place or time of day you know well and
write about how it sounds.
 You might find yourself using words that start with
the same letter (alliteration) and words that sound
like what they’re describing (onomatopoeia).

10. Taste - Paper
 Help yourself to a piece of candy. OR, pass and
imagine you’re eating something else.
 When it first enters your mouth (before you chew),
what does it taste like?
 Bite into it and write down what it tastes like as the
flavor moves through your mouth.
 Chew it and describe the taste. Does it change?
 Now, swallow or spit it out and describe the taste left
in your mouth.
 Compare the taste to other tastes

11. Smell - Paper
 Write down three smells you are aware of right now
(cleaner, perfume/cologne, food, wood, books, etc.)
 Think of what one of the smells reminds you of.
 Write about it for a minute or two.

12. Touch - Paper
 Think of something you are very familiar with
touching– an article of clothing, a piece of
technology, an animal, part of your house, etc.
 Write about the feel of it in detail.
 Compare it to something else.

13. Sight
 Locate any object in the room.
 Describe what this object looks like without relying
on adjectives.

14. Homework
 Write in your WNB.