NORTHWEST WEATHER WATCH

Objectives:

1. Student will gain a better understanding of how adjectives enhance and clarify writing through visualization.
2. Student will demonstrate knowledge about how clouds affect weather through art.

1. Warm up for adjective identification. Student will identify and list adjectives which describe the sky, clouds, precipitation, mood of, etc. in two pictures depicting weather shown to the class. (Students are to notice that the use of different adjectives "paints" a totally different weather feeling in the two pictures).
2. Teacher hands out a generic weather scene (paper with pictures of very simple drawings of sky, clouds, water, etc.) Student will choose a type of weather to illustrate and write a list of suitable adjectives in appropriate areas on the paper to describe the scene.
3. Student will use the Thesaurus to gather more interesting adjectives to use in describing a scene with exciting or peaceful weather.
4. Student will write a descriptive paragraph using the adjectives generated by the type of weather chosen to depict.
5. Student will draw or paint the weather picture described in the descriptive paragraph.
6. Students will hang up their drawings. As each student reads his own piece of writing, the other students will try to identify which picture goes with the descriptive paragraph being read.