Es: review notes
Eng: Essay due Friday
Global: Read Ch. 5,
section 4 & complete worksheet
Writing Tip
"Show me, Don’t Tell me"
But what, exactly, are "telling" and "showing?" Telling is another way of saying “summarizing.” Here’s a writer “telling” readers about a room:
"It was a nice room, a warm room. It was a happy place to be." (You just told me, and bored be to death.)
Here is a different writer showing me by using vivid language
"Sunlight pours through the window, pooling on the down comforter which lies across the bed. A block of light also angles across the wall opposite the bed, highlighting the pale orange color of the room. A thick red carpet sprawls over the floor, a corner of it lit too by a sunbeam; the room’s windows admit the sun along two walls, and tiny dust particles hover in the bright streaks which glaze the room."
"Show me, Don’t Tell me"
But what, exactly, are "telling" and "showing?" Telling is another way of saying “summarizing.” Here’s a writer “telling” readers about a room:
"It was a nice room, a warm room. It was a happy place to be." (You just told me, and bored be to death.)
Here is a different writer showing me by using vivid language
"Sunlight pours through the window, pooling on the down comforter which lies across the bed. A block of light also angles across the wall opposite the bed, highlighting the pale orange color of the room. A thick red carpet sprawls over the floor, a corner of it lit too by a sunbeam; the room’s windows admit the sun along two walls, and tiny dust particles hover in the bright streaks which glaze the room."
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