Indy Teach Lesson Plan

Essential Question: How do you bring excitement to papers?

Main Idea: The main purpose of this lesson is to encourage the students to be more creative with their writing. Over my short time interning and grading papers I have found that one of the most difficult things for students to grasp in their writing is using their senses and creativity to make their topics come more to life. This lesson will deal primarily with waking their senses up and showing the students how they can transfer these adjectives or "exciting words" as I have called them sometimes, onto paper making their writing far more interesting and allowing the reader to feel a part of the journey.

Activity: Students will think of 5 objects. These objects can be anything from a pop bottle, a car, a tree, etc. They will then take these objects and outline each one on a separate piece of paper. The drawing does not have to be in great detail, just something simple where you can easily make out what it's suppose to be. Students will be asked write down words (Adjectives) that describe the object and write them alongside the outline of the object. In other words, the words will circle around the object and once students completely encompass the picture they will be done. Once this is all done students will be able to easily see how many words can be used to describe even a simple object and will be able to see how their writings can be more exciting by using these words.