The document provides instructions and exercises for writing a descriptive paragraph. It explains that a descriptive paragraph should use vivid details to paint a clear picture of a person, place, thing, or idea for the reader. Students are guided through selecting a topic to describe, drafting sentences with relevant details, and revising their paragraph to improve its organization and clarity. Examples of strong descriptive paragraphs are provided for analysis. Finally, students are given exercises to write a descriptive paragraph about themselves.
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Teach students how to identify an author's purpose with this interactive presentation. Designed specifically for intermediate and middle school students.
Descriptive Essay Requirements
Descriptive Essay: (4-5 paragraphs; at least 300 words; 1 ½ pages)
The descriptive essay will describe (in detail) a place or a person, using concrete and specific language (language that creates mental pictures) that appeals to various senses (sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell). Descriptive adjectives that convey emotion/personality and atmosphere/mood should be included. To enhance the effect, utilization of figurative language (e.g., similes, metaphors) is HIGHLY encouraged.
Requirements:
12 point font Times New Roman
Double-spaced
MLA Header and page numbers
300 words; at least four (4) paragraphs
Must describe person or place
Create a vivid image and contain descriptive adjectives/adverbs
See Rubric for other criteria
Descriptive Essay Housekeeping
Miranda Rowe
What is your topic?
Your topic needs to be a person or a place.
It cannot be a large place. It needs to be a piece/ small part of a small place.
For example: Not New York City, but the World Trade Center Memorial. Not Michigan, or even Dearborn, Michigan, but a restaurant IN Dearborn, MI.
Should you narrow down your topic?
Descriptive essays are pictures, NOT movies!!!
Introductions….
Do reader’s know who the essay is about by the end of the first sentence?
Do you need to change your first sentence?
Does your introduction grab your readers attention? Is there a very interesting/ odd/ weird fact you can give?
My roommate, Alex, can say “Hello” in five different languages.
My hometown of Middletown, is the birthplace of modern steel.
How can you change your introduction to be more interesting?
Body paragraphs
The body of your essay is the middle of your essay.
Your body paragraphs should describe three points. They SHOULD NOT try to describe everything.
Let’s try using the picture….
Creating an informal, rough outline will help!
Creating an informal outline
Effective Conclusions
Need to be full paragraphs and support your ideas. There is no need to repeat information.
Use this paragraph to end your essay, while adding new information.
Introductions and conclusions frame your descriptive picture.
Conclusions need to answer the “So What” question. Why did we read this? What should we have learned by reading your essay?
How do your points fit together?
Descriptive Writing
Standing on his hind legs, this rare andalucian stallion is fearless. His ears are turned back while his noble looking head is held high. His all black coat glistens in the late afternoon sun. His face displays a strong confidence with his nostrils flared, his veins bulging from his cheek bones, and his fiery black eyes burning holes into the souls of those who stare into them. His neck muscles are tensed and thickened with adrenalin. His black main is thrown into the wind like a flag rippling in the winds of a tornado. His muscular front legs are brought up to his chest displaying his flashing gray hooves that could crush a man's scull with one.
Teach students how to identify an author's purpose with this interactive presentation. Designed specifically for intermediate and middle school students.
Descriptive Essay Requirements
Descriptive Essay: (4-5 paragraphs; at least 300 words; 1 ½ pages)
The descriptive essay will describe (in detail) a place or a person, using concrete and specific language (language that creates mental pictures) that appeals to various senses (sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell). Descriptive adjectives that convey emotion/personality and atmosphere/mood should be included. To enhance the effect, utilization of figurative language (e.g., similes, metaphors) is HIGHLY encouraged.
Requirements:
12 point font Times New Roman
Double-spaced
MLA Header and page numbers
300 words; at least four (4) paragraphs
Must describe person or place
Create a vivid image and contain descriptive adjectives/adverbs
See Rubric for other criteria
Descriptive Essay Housekeeping
Miranda Rowe
What is your topic?
Your topic needs to be a person or a place.
It cannot be a large place. It needs to be a piece/ small part of a small place.
For example: Not New York City, but the World Trade Center Memorial. Not Michigan, or even Dearborn, Michigan, but a restaurant IN Dearborn, MI.
Should you narrow down your topic?
Descriptive essays are pictures, NOT movies!!!
Introductions….
Do reader’s know who the essay is about by the end of the first sentence?
Do you need to change your first sentence?
Does your introduction grab your readers attention? Is there a very interesting/ odd/ weird fact you can give?
My roommate, Alex, can say “Hello” in five different languages.
My hometown of Middletown, is the birthplace of modern steel.
How can you change your introduction to be more interesting?
Body paragraphs
The body of your essay is the middle of your essay.
Your body paragraphs should describe three points. They SHOULD NOT try to describe everything.
Let’s try using the picture….
Creating an informal, rough outline will help!
Creating an informal outline
Effective Conclusions
Need to be full paragraphs and support your ideas. There is no need to repeat information.
Use this paragraph to end your essay, while adding new information.
Introductions and conclusions frame your descriptive picture.
Conclusions need to answer the “So What” question. Why did we read this? What should we have learned by reading your essay?
How do your points fit together?
Descriptive Writing
Standing on his hind legs, this rare andalucian stallion is fearless. His ears are turned back while his noble looking head is held high. His all black coat glistens in the late afternoon sun. His face displays a strong confidence with his nostrils flared, his veins bulging from his cheek bones, and his fiery black eyes burning holes into the souls of those who stare into them. His neck muscles are tensed and thickened with adrenalin. His black main is thrown into the wind like a flag rippling in the winds of a tornado. His muscular front legs are brought up to his chest displaying his flashing gray hooves that could crush a man's scull with one.
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11. I hope you’ve learned something from our activities. Now, we start our main topic. Our lesson for the day is…
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15. A descriptive paragraph has sentences that work together to present a single, clear picture (description) of a person, a place, a thing, an event, or an idea. Description is commonly used in novels, short stories, and essays. Descriptive paragraphs make pictures in the reader's mind. A good descriptive paragraph will make a vivid picture. In order to write descriptively, you must first learn to see - observe the world around you and think about what you are seeing. For Zoom, please click.
16. A descriptive paragraph has sentences that work together to present a single, clear picture (description) of a person, a place, a thing, an event, or an idea. Description is commonly used in novels, short stories, and essays. Descriptive paragraphs make pictures in the reader's mind. A good descriptive paragraph will make a vivid picture. In order to write descriptively, you must first learn to see - observe the world around you and think about what you are seeing.
17. The purpose of descriptive writing is to make our readers see, feel, and hear what we have seen, felt, and heard. Whether we are describing a person, a place, or a thing, our aim is to reveal a subject through vivid and carefully selected details. Each of the four paragraphs below responds, in its own way, to the guidelines in How to Write a Descriptive Paragraph. The writers have selected a belonging that holds special meaning to them, identified that belonging in a clear topic sentence, and then described the subject in detail while explaining its personal significance.
18. Look! Put simply, that's the watchword of this project and the motto of all good writers: pay attention to the details and show the reader what you mean. Specific details create word pictures that can make writing more interesting and easier to understand. In this project, you will practice organizing those specific details into an effective descriptive paragraph.
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20. 2) Draft a Descriptive Paragraph Once you have settled on a topic for your descriptive paragraph and collected some details, you're ready to assemble those details in a rough draft that begins with a topic sentence. You will find a common model for organizing a description at Draft a Descriptive Paragraph. 3) Revise a Descriptive Paragraph Now you will revise your descriptive paragraph, concentrating on its organization. That is, you will check to see that your sentences follow a clear and logical order, each detail related to the one that came before and leading to the one that follows
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22. You've just written a descriptive paragraph. The trick to making good paragraphs is to be a good observer. Practice observing - any time that you're not actually doing anything else, pay attention to the world around you. Waiting in line, travelling to a destination, sitting in a restaurant - all of these are great chances to observe! Good descriptive writing involves showing not telling . You must know how to write a paragraph by focusing on one item and describing it. It is the job of the reader to guess the item.
24. Watson and the Shark is a painting by John Singleton Copley. In the foreground of the painting, one naked man is being attacked by a huge gray shark in the cold and choppy seawater. One small overloaded rowboat is near the naked man and the frightening shark. There are nine horrified men in this rowboat. They are trying to rescue the naked man. One young man takes a long spear and wants to kill the shark. Some people are reaching for his hand, and some are throwing a rope for him to catch. In the background of the painting, under the dark and cloudy sky, there are many ships stopping in the stormy harbor. The whole painting makes people feel tension and fear.
25. Notes: This paragraph is well written in a number of ways. Firstly, the sentence structure is correct and shows compound sentence combining. Secondly, they used a number of adjectives to add life to the description. Thirdly, the description is organized from the focal point in the front of the painting to the background, just as our eyes would follow the painting. The ideas flow smoothly from one to the other because of cohesive devices such as sentence combining, pronouns, correct use of definite and indefinite articles, repetition of key words, and prepositions that direct the reader’s attention around the image. This paragraph is an excellent example of a descriptive paragraph.
26. I am forty years old, rather tall and I have blue eyes and short black hair. I wear casual clothes as I teach students in a relaxed atmosphere. I enjoy my job because I get to meet and help so many different people from all over the world. During my spare time, I like playing tennis which I play at least three times a week. I also love listening to classical music and I must admit that I spend a lot of money on buying new CDs! I live in a pretty seaside town on the Italian coast. I enjoy eating great Italian food and laughing with the likable people who live here. 2.
27. I hope you’ve learned something about descriptive paragraph. Now, let see if you are doing good
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29. Exercise #2: Now that you have the information about yourself. Fill in the gaps in to complete this descriptive paragraph about yourself. I am _________ years old, I _________________ (your looks). I enjoy ______________. I often _____________ (describe how often you do your hobby). I live in ____________. People in ____________ are ________________ . I enjoy / don't enjoy living in ______________ because ____________.
30. Exercise #3: Guess the right title for this paragraph. "I have been looking on, this evening, at a merry company of children assembled round that pretty German toy, a Christmas Tree. The tree was planted in the middle of a great round table, and towered high above their heads. It was brilliantly lighted by a multitude of little tapers; and everywhere sparkled and glittered with bright objects. There were rosy-cheeked dolls,
31. hiding behind the green leaves; and there were real watches (with movable hands, at least, and an endless capacity of being wound up) dangling from innumerable twigs; there were French-polished tables, chairs, bedsteads, wardrobes, eight-day clocks, and various other articles of domestic furniture (wonderfully made, in tin, at Wolverhampton)"...
32. Choose a place or experience you would like to describe. Fill up the box that describes your chosen place or experience