Painting Places with Words

After discussing the famous and fluent opening that launches Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, small groups of writers impersonate the description by applying Steinbeck's paragraph's verbs and sentence structures to a different setting.


Students will model Steinbeck's style, use graphic organizers, and compose their own descriptions. Other writers worth impersonating for more mature student writers are Leonard Pitts, Martin Luther King, Jr., Rick Reilly, and Farley Mowatt

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