A Descriptive Essay
Project Description: After doing the fairytale project, it occurred to me that our students need more practice on punctuation and paying attention to detail. I have decided that our next project be a Descriptive Essay. My goal is to have the students get inspired by something that they like doing, seeing, or etc., so I would like them to go out and write about a topic that is very close to them. For example, students should pick something specific, an event, a person, or an animal and describe their choice to the best of their ability.
Essential Questions:
1. How can we use literary devices to make our words come alive?
2. How can we practice proper punctuation and recognize the use of active and passive voice in order to make our written work more enjoyable to the reader?
Objective: Students will be able to effectively describe something that they really love by using creativity, proper punctuation, and literary devices.
Requirements:
1.Essay must be at least five paragraphs long.
Introductory Paragraph with Thesis.
Three Body Paragraphs supporting Thesis.
Conclusion Paragraph Restating Thesis.
2. Proper Grammar must be used throughout the essay. No more than two grammatical mistakes.
3.Essay must effectively and accurately describe subject or subjects.
Picture of subject or subjects.
Benchmarks:
1. Outline- 5 points (September 1st)
2. Rough Draft #1- 5 points (September 8th)
3. Rough Draft #2- 10 points (September 13th)
Final Draft- 30 points (September 15th)
Note: Our Goal as a class is to focus on using the active voice as opposed to the passive voice and be able to properly punctuate our essays. These two things are the most important parts of this project.
Resources:Passive and Active Voice/ Comma Use, How to Write a Descriptive Essay
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