Writing - Week 6 Day 1

Today we tried another writing strategy - called "Magnified Eye". In this strategy you write a "close up" description of an object. After looking at the example, and figuring out what it is, students tried their own version using the list of suggestions at the bottom of the handout. The top half got cut off and added to the Writing Notebook, while the bottom half was attached to the student version and handed in.

Then we went back to the narratives and found something that is important in the story, and "zoomed in" on the object to describe it for effect in the essay. The classes that had time were able to share this revision with writing partners.