Descriptive

Adjectives

&

Adverbs, Mood, and Foreshadowing

By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
- Determine between an adjective and adverb
- Define mood and practice examples
- Define foreshadowing and practice examples

How do we describe people and things?

Imagine I told you my character had dark hair and a mustache, would both of these people fit that description?

What more could we have said to differentiate?

Open Ended

These are both chairs.

Use words to describe each of them so that we can clearly identify which one is being talked about.

Multiple Choice

How many senses do you have which tell you information about the world around you?

• 1

• 3

• 5

​Imagery is descriptive language used by writers which evoke the 5 senses.

Sight: What you see

Auditory: What you can hear

Smell: What you can smell

Taste: What you can taste

Touch: What things feel like

Open Ended

While you are watching, write down sensory information from the 5 senses: e.g.

"sight: lots of people

Auditory: People talking"

Sight, Auditory, Touch, Taste, Smell

The shirt sat on the table. 

How well did we describe the noun if I was looking at this image?

In order for you to properly describe what you're writing about, you need to use adjectives and adverbs.

Adjectives describe nouns. Adverbs describe verbs. 

Adjectives & Adverbs

Open Ended

Add descriptive adjectives into an original sentence about the following image:

add into a sentence like "The car crashed."

Multiple Choice

Adjectives give details/description to...

• Nouns

• Verbs

• Adverbs

While there are different types of adverbs, the important one we will talk about today is called the Adverb of manner and is generally what people think about when they talk about adverbs.

​Adverbs

​Adverbs of manner explain HOW a verb was done.

I’ll demonstrate a few right now.

I talked ____________________.

Give me an adverb of manner to describe my talking!

What do you notice about how the adverbs of manner end?

Do they always do this?

Multiple Choice

Which of these is an adverb that is true about the following image?

• Yellow and green paint

• Slowly spinning-wheels

• On-fire

Mood is the feeling the reader gets while reading the story.

What is it?

Mood

Multiple Choice

What would be a good example of mood in this picture?

• Relaxing

• Eerie

• Angry

Multiple Choice

What would be a good example of mood in this picture?

• cheerful

• spooky

• calming

Open Ended

What words could you use to describe the mood you get from this picture?

When an author gives these hints, the reader feels suspense or tension because they are anticipating that an important event will happen soon.

Foreshadowing is when an author gives clues to hint at something that will happen later in the story. Sometimes, the clues are obvious, but other times, they are more subtle.

Foreshadowing

Open Ended

Read the paragraph below. Predict what will happen next.

Tom woke up happy He had no idea that at the end of the day, he'd be taking an ambulance ride. But it was time to do work. Tom got his power tools from his toolbox and started the project. It was hard, but Tom was a hard worker.

Poll

Exit Ticket

What did you enjoy learning about the most today?

• Adjectives and Adverbs

• Mood

• Foreshadowing

• I enjoyed them all!