Blog #5 Brandon Chiapperino, Blogger #7-5

Aim: How does Golding use descriptive language to create setting and convey meaning?

Do Now: Describe your favorite room.

My basement has a large couch in a U shape, facing the TV. Behind it is a table where I do homework, and shelves with board games and some spare stuff. There’s also a magnetic dart board and a smaller TV. In front of the couch is a chair where I sit when gaming, and the TV, where I play video games. Next to the TV is a small shelf where I keep more spare stuff, game discs and boxes, and controllers/remotes. Spare stuff can mean candy wrappers, loose change, and batteries that were on the couch or floor.

I edited my response to make it have more imagery and a deeper mood, like in Ms. Fusaro’s example.

I look around the basement, my favorite room in my house. Behind me is the very long couch, that closes me in on 2 sides. Even further behind that is a table for doing homework, a magnetic dart board, and some shelves with board games. In front of me is the TV, showing the Xbox menu for most of the day. Next to it is a small shelf, storing my collection of game discs, boxes, and controllers. The entire room revolves around my chair on the floor, and it is where I am now.

Mood: How the audience feels when listening or reading. Moods can be created through setting, voice, tone, and theme. In drama, music, sets, and words can also be used to establish mood.

Ms. Fusaro read a part of Lord of The Flies, and we wrote down sensory imagery and what we pictured while listening.

I pictured a pink/white section of rock, near rows of palm trees, and some trunks on the ground. There was a beach area, and a big pool of water separated from the ocean. It had very clear water, and there was a nice sea breeze.

Lord of The Flies Project: Each group has to describe a place (Doesn’t have to be an island) using imagery and descriptive words. The place can have any theme to it, it doesn’t have to be realistic.