Now…use your favorite sentences and phrases from above to write a descriptive paragraph that mentions your person, your place, and your thing. model____________________________ Name: _______teacher Date: _________________ Hour:____________ 90th Street Brainstorming Worksheet- Play with idea development before composing your paragraph My Person: My Place: My Thing: (write it below) (write it below) (write it below) A dog catcher An alley at night A net How might you describe (write a sentence or phrase in (write a sentence or phrase in (write a sentence or phrase in these spaces) these spaces) these spaces) this noun using Mr. Sim’s His name is bright red The aluminum focus on advice to stitched into his brick walls turn pole is scratched interesting uniform with puce in this from previous details? bright yellow darkness. dogs’ gnashings. thread. He shivers Garbage cans line This net is a How you describe this noun using Mr. Morley’s suspiciously with the like weapon against find poetry advice to sweat and seems soldiers. The cans his fear. in your words? scared. He has dare him to look (metaphor) huge hands. behind (alliteration) them.(simile & personification) Stumbling in pot One garbage can It scrapes the How might you describe this noun using Mrs. spinning quakes with alley’s sides as the Martinez’s advice to spice it up with around when he tremors… dogcatcher moves hears creaks and something hides forward toward the action? thunks. behind it… can. What if the What if the alley What if a What’s a if?” “What question about this noun dogcatcher finds has one of those hole in the net that that Alexis Leora’s advice his own dog motion-detecting he doesn’t know might inspire? behind that lights that come about? garbage can? on? Now…use your favorite sentences and phrases from above to write a descriptive paragraph that mentions your person, your place, and your thing.
Now…use your favorite sentences and phrases from above to write a descriptive paragraph that mentions your person, your place, and your thing. Name: _______teacher model____________________________ Date: _________________ Hour:____________ 90th Street Brainstorming Worksheet- Play with idea development before composing your paragraph My Person: (write it below) A dog catcher My Place: (write it below) An alley at night My Thing: (write it below) A net How might you describe this noun using Mr. Sim’s advice to focus on interesting details? (write a sentence or phrase in these spaces) His name is stitched into his uniform with bright yellow thread. (write a sentence or phrase in these spaces) bright red brick walls turn puce in this darkness. (write a sentence or phrase in these spaces) The aluminum pole is scratched from previous dogs’ gnashings. How you describe this noun using Mr. Morley’s advice to find poetry in your words? He shivers suspiciously with sweat and seems scared. He has huge hands. (alliteration) Garbage cans line the like soldiers. The cans dare him to look behind them.(simile & personification) This net is a weapon against his fear. (metaphor) How might you describe this noun using Mrs. Martinez’s advice to spice it up with action? Stumbling in pot spinning around when he hears creaks and thunks. One garbage can quakes with tremors… something hides behind it… It scrapes the alley’s sides as the dogcatcher moves forward toward the can. What’s a “What if?” question about this noun that Alexis Leora’s advice might inspire? What if the dogcatcher finds his own dog behind that garbage can? What if the alley has one of those motion-detecting lights that come on? What if a hole in the net that he doesn’t know about? Now…use your favorite sentences and phrases from above to write a descriptive paragraph that mentions your person, your place, and your thing.
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