Read the story and then answer the following questions in a Google Doc What did you notice abcut the language? What words are surprising? What word or punctuation patterns did you
notice, and how do they affect the description over all?
What words create an especially strong image? What do they make you picture?
The writer, Anne Doten, could have stopped after the first sentence and taken out all the description that follows. With
only 800 words to work with, why do you think she kept it all in?
Where do you think the essay will go from here? Why might all this "showing" be important?
Now read the full essay, noting, especially, what words, phrases or lines are richest in terms of showing rather than
telling