Outdoor Observations – Writing Project
Outside ~ Observe ~ Ode to the Outdoors
You have been spending time in the outdoors and making specific observations over the last few weeks. Now you have the opportunity to use your entries as inspiration for a writing project. Here are the basic requirements.
You will write/create:
(1) Cover Page – sketch of nature that captures one or more of your observations – be creative, include detail, add color
(2) First Person Essay
~ one page minimum
~ what was it like to do outdoor observations?
~ did you notice things in nature that you hadn’t seen before?
~ you can focus on a particular entry or the experience overall
~ be sure to use specific examples of what you saw, heard, felt, noticed …
Examples: excerpts from nature essays
(3) Ode to Nature
~ a specific type of poem – something like “Ode to Tree Branches” or “Ode to Bunnies”
Examples: Odes
(4) Choose Two Epigraphs (nature quotes) and write a paragraph about what each one means to you. Explain what you think the quote is trying to say and why you chose it as one of your examples
Piece # 2 and # 3, described above, will include at least one literary device that we studied – – please underline the section(s) where you used the chosen device
Personification – within your writing, you give an idea or living thing or object human attributes
Onomatopoeia – word that imitates the natural sounds of a thing, it creates a sound effect within the writing
Analogy: An analogy is a comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it.
Alliteration: Consecutive words that start with the same letter or sound
Adverb – how something is done, modifies a verb, adjective or adverb in a sentence
Epigraph – An epigraph is when an author inserts a famous quotation, poem, song, or other short passage or text at the beginning of a larger text
These are my entries so that you can review anything you might have missed Rundell Outdoor Entries