I Hold in My Hands . . . |
This is an exercise in adjectives -- lots of them! Read the following poem to your students (take a deep breath first), then break out the dictionaries. The Brain I hold in my skull one supercolossal unwashed, extra intelligent, reliable, unstoppable, gold plated, argon- filled, gas-powered, football- shaped, orange-colored, 212 degree, unchanged, logical, perfect, licensed, electronically, fuel-injected, piece of my brain. Don't try to out- think me! Lou Ernst, Grade 5 Next put a model on the board: I hold in my hands one __________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________ piece of myself. If you look closely you can see it. Ask students to fill the middle of the poem with adjectives chosen gleefully and carefully from the dictionary. You could also use variations. You can do this by altering the poem model slightly. For example: I hold in my _________________________ head heart mind hand dreams, etc. one _______________ of my _______________ if you _________________ you can ________________. Here is another fun example: In My Hand In my hand I hold one glass- textured, African painted, glossy covered, gold plated, crystal tipped, circular, perfectionated, blossom scented, feathery, zestful, zigodic, zetaed, bondering, single glass bead. If you peer closely, you will see it. Jillian Utter, Grade 5 |
