Title: Descriptive Essay Writing and Sensory Details
Synopsis: This lesson focused on the structure and components of a descriptive essay, emphasizing the use of sensory details to engage readers. Students practiced identifying and using vocabulary related to the senses to describe food experiences, and they analyzed a sample descriptive essay to understand the format and elements involved.
Attendance:
– Alia: Present
– Joke: Present
– Donna: Present
– Junction Lee: Present
– Anelia: Present
– Matula: Present
– Jubek: Present
– I Took: Present
– I True Dog: Absent
– 1 student potentially no longer attending since the first semester
Topics Covered:
– Review of Descriptive Essay: Students revisited the concept of descriptive essays, focusing on sensory details—looks, feels, smells, etc.
– Free Writing Exercise: Students engaged in free writing about their first experience trying a new food, describing the sensory aspects and their reactions.
– Sharing Exercise: Students shared the food they wrote about and whether they liked it or not, practicing brevity and focus.
– Brainstorming Activity: Discussion on brainstorming and creating a mind map with a focus on fried chicken, exploring main ideas and sensory details.
– Vocabulary Expansion: Students worked in pairs to come up with new vocabulary words related to taste, touch, smell, and sight.
– Sentence Creation: Using the new vocabulary, students wrote sentences and shared them with the class.
– Descriptive Essay Structure: Explanation of the structure of a descriptive essay, including the hook, background, thesis statement, body paragraphs with topic sentences and supporting details, and the conclusion paragraph.
– Essay Analysis: Students read and discussed a sample descriptive essay about pizza, identifying key elements of descriptive writing.
Actionable Items:
– Follow-up on the student who has been absent since the first semester.
– Review and reinforce the concept of a thesis statement in future lessons.
– Encourage students to use descriptive vocabulary in their writing assignments to enhance sensory details.
Homework:
– Write a descriptive essay using the structure discussed in class. The essay should describe a food experience and include sensory details and the new vocabulary words learned during the lesson.