Visual Arts Homework
Ms. Stillwagon
October 5, 2017
Reflect on what we did together in class and complete the level that is best for you to practice and review what we did in class!
Read the opening scene from “Of Mice and Men” John Steinbeck and “Deep Survival” by Laurence Gonzales. Then choose another object in your home. Describe the object with enough detail that a person reading your description would be able to create a drawing that is almost exact! Use Gonzales and Steinbeck's writing below as examples for your own descriptive writing!
LEVEL 3:
“Of Mice and Men”
John Steinbeck
A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool. On one side of the river the golden foothill slopes curve up to the strong and rocky Gabilan Mountains, but on the valley side the water is lined with trees- willows fresh and green with every spring, carrying in their lower leaf junctures the debris of the winter's flooding; and sycamores with mottled, white, recumbent limbs and branches that arch over the pool. On the sandy bank under the trees the leaves lie deep and so crisp that a lizard makes a great skittering if he runs among them. Rabbits come out of the brush to sit on the sand in the evening.
“Deep Survival”
Laurence Gonzales
Juliane Koepcke was flying with her mother and ninety other
passengers on Christmas Eve, 1971, when lightning struck,
causing an extensive structural failure of the Lockheed Electra.
Juliane fell out of the broken airplane into the Peruvian jungle. She
was seventeen years old, wearing her Catholic confirmation dress
and white high heels. Miraculously, she suffered only cuts and a
broken collarbone from the crash. Later, she reported feeling "a
hefty concussion." Then she was falling toward the jungle.
As she recalled, "I remember thinking that the jungle trees
below looked just like cauliflowers."
LEVEL 2:
“Of Mice and Men”
John Steinbeck
A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside and runs deep and green. The water is warm in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool. On one side of the river the golden foothill slopes curve up to the strong and rocky mountains, but on the valley side the water is lined with trees. On the sandy bank under the trees the leaves lie deep and so crisp that a lizard makes a great skittering if he runs among them. Rabbits come out of the brush to sit on the sand in the evening.
“Deep Survival”
Laurence Gonzales
Juliane was flying with her mother and ninety other passengers on Christmas Eve when lightning struck, causing a failure of the Lockheed Electra. Juliane fell out of the broken airplane into the jungle. She was seventeen years old, wearing her dress and white high heels. Miraculously, she suffered only cuts and a broken collarbone from the crash. Later, she reported feeling "a hefty concussion." Then she was falling toward the jungle. As she recalled, "I remember thinking that the jungle trees below looked just like cauliflowers."
LEVEL 1:
“Of Mice and Men”
John Steinbeck
The river drops in close to the hill and runs deep and green. The water is warm in the sunlight. On one side of the river the hill slopes up to the mountains, but on the valley side the water is lined with trees. Rabbits come out of the brush to sit on the sand.
“Deep Survival”
Laurence Gonzales
Juliane was flying with her mother on Christmas Eve when lightning struck. Juliane fell out of the broken airplane into the jungle. She was seventeen years old, wearing her dress and white high heels. She suffered only cuts and a broken bone from the crash. She was falling toward the jungle. The jungle trees below looked just like cauliflowers."
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