Writing About Art: Impression, Sunrise

Objective

Students will write a structured piece of poetry based on details in Impression, Sunrise.

The writing template this time, which you can totally change, is:

1. prepositional phrase – when
2. prepositional phrase – where
3. prepositional phrase – where
4. start with "despite"
5. start with "despite"
6. start with a pronoun

Steps

1. First, students just notice interesting details about this piece of art.
2. Then, they answer a few focusing questions to get them thinking deeper.
3. Now, using a six-line structure, students will write the first draft of their poem.
4. Finally, they will revise their writing to make it sizzle!

Resources

• Warmup Question Worksheet (PDF)
• Warmup Question Worksheet (Google Slides)
• Poetry Worksheet (PDF)
• Poetry Worksheet (Google Slides)
• A link to Impression, Sunrise.