As we begin to learn about what makes a great author, it helps to notice all the details authors use in their writing. We're reading Charlotte's Web together and we noticed this great description in Chapter 10 where Mr. White (the author) describes a swing with such amazing details we could see it in our minds! To put our imaginations (and Mr. White's description) to the test, we decided to be the illustrators and try to draw the picture just from the description in the text. Here is the text we worked from:
“Mr. Zuckerman had the best swing in the country. It was a single long piece of heavy rope tied to the beam over the north doorway. At the bottom end of the rope was a fat knot to sit on. It was arranged so that you could swing without being pushed. You climbed a ladder to the hayloft. Then, holding the rope, you stood at the edge and looked down, and were scared and dizzy. Then you straddles the knot, so that it acted as a seat. Then you go up all your nerve, took a deep breath, and jumped. For a second you seemed to be falling to the barn floor far below, but then suddenly the rope would begin to catch you, and you would said through the barn door going a mile a minute, with the wind whistling in your eyes and ears and hair. Then you would zoom upward into the sky, and look up at the clouds and the rope would twist and you would twist and turn with the rope. Then you would drop down, down, down, out of the sky and come sailing back into the barn almost into the hayloft, then sail out again (not quite so far this time), then in again (not quite so high), then out again, then in again, then out, then in; and then you’d jump off and fall down and let somebody else try it.”
- E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web
The kids did an amazing job! Look at all the details they captured in their pictures! Here are just a few of the illustrations they created! (To see the rest, stop by our room. They are hanging in the hallway!)
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