1. Journal3-29-06Wednesday From your seat in the classroom, look out the window. Write down everything you can see. Give as many details as possible. Using your five senses pick one image you wrote down and explain: sight, hear, taste, touch, smell.

2. Purpose What are you learning? –How to understand imagery Why are you learning this? –To understand how to visualize what you are reading.

3. Crafting the Lesson (me) Imagery – words or phrases that appeal to the senses and conjure (bring) up mental images. Imagery helps readers imagine the sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and feelings. Imagery appears extensively (a lot) in settings, character descriptions, and nature poetry.

4. Crafting the Lesson (we) Read this excerpt from Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island. On your white boards write down all imagery words. –I remember his as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a handbarrow; a tall, strong, heavy nut-brown man; his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulders of his soiled blue coat; his hand ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails; and saber cut across one check, a dirty, livid white. I remember him looking round the cove and whistling to himself as he did so, and then breaking out in that old sea-song that he sang so often afterward…

5. Crafting the Lesson (we) Possible Answers: –I remember his as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a handbarrow; a tall, strong, heavy nut-brown man; his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulders of his soiled blue coat; his hand ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails; and saber cut across one check, a dirty, livid white. I remember him looking round the cove and whistling to himself as he did so, and then breaking out in that old sea-song that he sang so often afterward…

6. Composing Meaning (Two) Read “The Night Before Christmas” by Clement Clarke Moore. 1.Circle all the imagery words. 2.Highlight end rhyme 3.Label rhyme scheme 4.Number the stanzas. How many lines? 5.Underline similes. **If time allows create an illustration based on the description given in the poem.**

7. Composing Meaning (You) Read the poem “Out, Out –” by Robert Frost. Locate the following: Fill in the Identifying Imagery graphic organizer. Is there refrain? Give an example of alliteration. How does imagery enhance the poem?

8. Reflection What is the definition of imagery? How does imagery improve a poem?