Field Trip Reminders Field Trip Monday 9/23/13 (3 rd and 5 th period) **bring lunch or money to buy lunch **bring a piece of paper and a pencil (no pens allowed in the museum!) Meet in the front lobby at the beginning of 3 rd period. We will leave promptly at 10:30. Your 3 rd and 5 th period teacher will know that you are on a field trip. You are responsible for any work you miss. Writers Eye Descriptive Writing *Descriptive writing offers a portrayal of a person, place, or thing, and gives the reader a more vivid experience. *General characteristics of descriptive writing include: *Elaborate use of sensory language; *Rich, vivid, and lively detail; *Figurative language such as simile, hyperbole, metaphor, symbolism, personification; *Showing, rather than telling through the use of active verbs and precise modifiers. Lets Practice! Fact Words: Who? What? Why? Where? When? Lets Practice! Descriptive Sense Words: Lets Practice! What do the colors make you think of or feel? What sounds do you think you would hear if you were in the scene? What would you feel if you were in the scene? If you could touch something in the piece, how would it feel? What might you smell or taste if you were in the scene? Lets Practice! Create metaphors and similes by using the following beginnings, or some similar to these; avoid clichs: The grass was soft, like. Her face was as red as Gentle as The buildings in the city are tall men Writers Eye 2013 Selections Jean Arp French, b. Germany Oriforme, modeled 1962 Fabricated 1977 Stainless steel Emily Kame Kngwarreye Australian c Ankerre (Emu), 1990 Utopia, Northern Territory Acrylic on canvas Michael Krueger American, b Changing of the Guards, 2012 Lithograph Ansel Adams American, White House Ruin, Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Arizona, 1942 Gelatin silver print Ansel Adams American, Itinerant, Merced, California c Gelatin silver print Ansel Adams American, Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941 Gelatin silver print Unknown Artist Portrait of Lloyd Patterson (b. 1910, Bronx, NY d. 1942, Moscow, USSR) Oil on canvas Henri Matisse French, Jeannette III, 1911 Bronze Hermon Atkins MacNeil American, The Sun Vow, 1899, cast 1919 Bronze Robert Adams American, b Untitled from Prairie Gelatin silver print Mike Osborne American, b Vertellus (Valley II), 2012 Archival inkjet print Emilie Charmy French, Card Players, c Oil on canvas Emilie Charmy French, Young Girl in an Armchair c Oil on board Emilie Charmy French, Corsica, 1907 Oil on canvas Emilie Charmy French, Still Life, c Oil on canvas Unknown Artist Hungarian (Bohemian), 15 th c. Figurines possibly based on Designs by Masolino, Italian 1383 c Processional Crucifix, c Enamel, silver, gilt bronze over iron core Unknown Artist Shiva, 18 th c. or earlier South India Granite Pair of Moccasins, Kaui-gu (Kiowa) peoples, Southern Plains region, probably Oklahoma Tanned leather and glass beads