Objective: Students will analyze a visual and create a descriptive short story. Students can use their imagination to create a story that is engaging, descriptive, and improves their creative writing skills.
Look: Students will be shown this picture and will be tasked with identifying details of things they notice in the picture.
Write: After that minute, students will write these details in their notebooks. Students will ponder over their details and will be asked the question, “Imagine this moment as a beginning, or an ending to a short story. Write a short story based on your details that brings light to this picture”
Share: After each student shares their story, we will discuss the importance of each short story concept. We will also discuss how artwork plays an integral role in the way we understand the world around us, and how each one of us saw the same picture yet came with a differing perspective.
Standards:
- W.3.2 Write text in a variety of modes:
Convey events, real or imagined, through narrative/short stories to develop experiences or events using descriptive details and clear event sequences to establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters. Use dialogue and description of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations.
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