RP 4C. Use of Language: Visualizing

RP 4C. Use of Language: Visualizing

Intermediate Lesson 1

Review

An analogy is like a movie or pictures created in your head about the characters and setting of a story you've either read or hear. It is your interpretation that creates the visualization or mental picture in your mind based on what you know and understand from the text.

Multiple Choice

On December 5, there was no wind at all to blow away the smoke and pollution. The smoke and pollution mixed with the water droplets in the mist and fog and created smog. The smog grew thicker and thicker and hung over London. It was said to be the worst smog ever by Londoners at the time. A dirty, dark, yellow smog with a very strong chemical smell, it left everything covered in sticky, black soot. People bought “smog masks” from chemist shops to try and filter out the deadly chemicals.

1.What words or phrases created a visual image for you?

• no wind; smoke and pollution; dirty, yellow smog

• December 5, London, people, shops

Fill in the Blank

On December 5, there was no wind at all to blow away the smoke and pollution. The smoke and pollution mixed with the water droplets in the mist and fog and created smog. The smog grew thicker and thicker and hung over London. It was said to be the worst smog ever by Londoners at the time. A dirty, dark, yellow smog with a very strong chemical smell, it left everything covered in sticky, black soot. People bought “smog masks” from chemist shops to try and filter out the deadly chemicals.

2.What did you visualize?

Multiple Choice

A dust-caked messenger reined in at “Poplar Grove,” Caesar Rodney’s rambling farmhouse on the outskirts of Dover in the colony of Delaware. It was almost 2 a.m. on July 2, 1776, and the house was quiet and dark. Moments later, lights flickered and Rodney himself — farmer, militia commander, and delegate to the Continental Congress — swung open the door. The rider spoke. “I have an urgent message for Caesar Rodney’s immediate attention.” “I am Rodney,” the farmer said. The messenger pulled out a letter, and handed it to Rodney, who read it quickly. Caesar Rodney was needed at once in Philadelphia, where the Continental Congress was in session, preparing to vote on the question of independence, perhaps before this very day ended.

3.What words or phrases created a visual image for you?

• Popular Grove; swung open the door; Philadelphia

• messenger; farmhouse and farmer; 2 AM; delegate to Continental Congress

Fill in the Blank

A dust-caked messenger reined in at “Poplar Grove,” Caesar Rodney’s rambling farmhouse on the outskirts of Dover in the colony of Delaware. It was almost 2 a.m. on July 2, 1776, and the house was quiet and dark. Moments later, lights flickered and Rodney himself — farmer, militia commander, and delegate to the Continental Congress — swung open the door. The rider spoke. “I have an urgent message for Caesar Rodney’s immediate attention.” “I am Rodney,” the farmer said. The messenger pulled out a letter, and handed it to Rodney, who read it quickly. Caesar Rodney was needed at once in Philadelphia, where the Continental Congress was in session, preparing to vote on the question of independence, perhaps before this very day ended.

4.What did you visualize?

Multiple Choice

The volcano erupted with such force and violence that rocks were hurled a mile into the sky. Lava poured out of the enormous hole where the top of the mountain had been. Lava rushed down the mountain slopes toward the village, covering everything in its path. Shock waves stirred the ocean and falling rock brought it to a boil. A wave, hundreds of feet high, rushed south across the sea and reached Crete, 70 miles away. The people were not prepared for the enormous wall of water. Its force carried boats in the harbor inland. The wave swept over the houses and raged across the island of Crete.

5.What words or phrase created a visual image for you?

• volcano erupted; lava poured out of mountain top, shock waves; wave hundreds of feet high reached Crete 70 miles away

• wall of water, Island of Crete, mountain slopes

Fill in the Blank

The volcano erupted with such force and violence that rocks were hurled a mile into the sky. Lava poured out of the enormous hole where the top of the mountain had been. Lava rushed down the mountain slopes toward the village, covering everything in its path. Shock waves stirred the ocean and falling rock brought it to a boil. A wave, hundreds of feet high, rushed south across the sea and reached Crete, 70 miles away. The people were not prepared for the enormous wall of water. Its force carried boats in the harbor inland. The wave swept over the houses and raged across the island of Crete.

6.What did you visualize?

Multiple Choice

When I came to again, I was sitting under an oak tree, on the grass, with a whole beautiful and broad country landscape all to myself—nearly. Not entirely; for there was a fellow on a horse, looking down at me—a fellow fresh out of a picture-book. He was in old-time iron armor from head to heel, with a helmet on his head the shape of a nail-keg with slits in it; and he had a shield, and a sword, and a prodigious spear; and his horse had armor on, too, and a steel horn projecting from his forehead, and gorgeous red and green silk trappings that hung down all around him like a bed quilt, nearly to the ground.

7.What words or phrases helped you visualize what is happening?

• oak tree, country landscape; old time iron armor, spear, silk trappings

• all to myself, fellow on horse, picture book

Fill in the Blank

When I came to again, I was sitting under an oak tree, on the grass, with a whole beautiful and broad country landscape all to myself—nearly. Not entirely; for there was a fellow on a horse, looking down at me—a fellow fresh out of a picture-book. He was in old-time iron armor from head to heel, with a helmet on his head the shape of a nail-keg with slits in it; and he had a shield, and a sword, and a prodigious spear; and his horse had armor on, too, and a steel horn projecting from his forehead, and gorgeous red and green silk trappings that hung down all around him like a bed quilt, nearly to the ground.

8.What did you visualize?