### Title: Crafting Similes and Mastering Adjectives
In this lesson, students engaged in practical exercises to create similes and refine their understanding of adjectives. The objectives were to enhance descriptive writing skills and prepare for an upcoming academic essay on a new food experience.
### Attendance:
– Number of students absent: Not explicitly mentioned.
### Topics Covered:
1. **Simile Creation Exercise:**
– Students tasked with creating similes using given sentence starters.
– Examples discussed: best friend, place of growth, home, favorite music, coffee, TV.
2. **Adjective Usage and Identification:**
– Reviewed the role of adjectives in sentences.
– Activities to identify adjectives and the nouns they describe.
– Explored verb to adjective transformation and nouns functioning as adjectives.
– Discussed adjectives for feelings and the correct order of adjectives.
3. **Preparation for Academic Essay:**
– Students recalled their previous food experience outlines.
– Developed reasons for their emotional response to a new food.
### Actionable Items:
– **Review and Clarification:**
– Review the correct order of adjectives as it was skipped during class.
– Clarify any confusion regarding the difference between ‘ed’ and ‘ing’ ending adjectives.
– **Essay Preparation:**
– Ensure students have completed their food experience outlines.
– Assist students in developing strong topic sentences for their essays.
### Homework:
– Continue refining the outline for the academic essay on a new food experience.
– Come up with two reasons why the chosen food elicited a strong emotional response.
– Prepare to write the full essay using descriptive language and adjectives learned in class.