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Language Arts: Telling a Painting's Story

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Use art museum paintings as inspiration for your class's creative writing works. Observing the paintings closely, middle and high schoolers list details and write descriptions. Their completed stories are displayed on bulletin boards along with postcards of the paintings.

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sensory language, imagery, figurative language

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descriptive text, judgmental language, sensory language, english language arts
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Grade
7th - 12th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Resource Type
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For Teacher Use
Duration
2 days
Instructional Strategies
Project-Based Learning
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