LEVEL FOUR SKILL: DESCRIPTIVE

It will take you eight days to learn that:
1. Authors give attitudes to their narrative voices
2. You can give your reader feelings by the way you have your narrative voices describe scenes

PREWRITING

One of the major jobs authors have is controlling the feelings of their readers. There are many ways authors do this, and one of the easiest to understand is to examine the ways they describe objects and situations.

In this paper you'll describe a situation two times. The first time you'll make your reader like it. The second time you'll make your reader dislike it.

Day One:

You'll write about a picnic as if you're a mother who loves all kids. You must make your reader enjoy all of the things the mother sees, hears and smells. If you use the following list it may help:

She Sees:

1. The bright colors of the clothing
2. The fast movements of the excited kids
3. The eating and discarding of hot dogs and deserts
4. The laughing and smiling faces
5. The eagerness to be together
6. The fun the kids have just running and playing
7. The other mothers laughing and talking with the kids

She Hears: