ELA8, CSS, Sferrazza

Think about your favorite place, somewhere you love spending time. Maybe it’s a room in your house, a vacation destination, a summer cottage, a park where you love to walk, a store, your bed… or even the pitcher’s mound or goalie box where you play! Most importantly, think about a place that is meaningful to you.

You will be writing a detailed description of your favorite place that is at least one page long. You are writing this as a description, not an essay, so you do not need formal paragraphs with topic sentences, reasons, concluding sentences, etc. Just describe the place as if you are painting a picture of it, using imagery, sensory language, specific details, and mood. Close your eyes and imagine this place, or if possible spend some time there. What do you see, hear, smell, taste, and feel there? What specific details stand out? What feeling does the place give you? Start by opening the template below to plan your piece. 

Open and use the writing template to complete the step one: Prewriting

Save your file and upload it under the dropbox: Description Planning.

Once your teacher has marked and approved this you can go to the next step, writing your first draft.

                                                                                                                                                     

Review your writing targets before you begin:

Ideas and Content: (6/6)

Personal memories are used to reflect on a meaningful place creating a distinct mood and conveys the importance of the place to the reader.  

Organization: (6/6)

The description is effectively organized in a highly logical fashion possibly using either spatial order, chronological order and order of importance. 

Word Choice: (6/6)

The piece used many specific adjectives and nouns and strong action verbs to include rich sensory details and create vivid images. 

Sentence Fluency: (6/6)

A wide variety of fluent sentences are used that vary in length and how they begin. 

Conventions: (6/6)

Work has been proofread and there are almost no errors in basic punctuation, capitalization, and spelling. 

Revision Mark (6/6)

 The student has very successfully revised the piece based on all feedback provided by the teacher.