200 Word Challenge – Descriptive Language
Look at the picture below carefully and complete the table.
Check on the next page for Step 2.
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Who is in the photo? |
A photographer and a rock climber |
What is happening in the photo? |
A photographer is taking a photo of the climber climbing the mountain. |
Where was the photo taken? |
On a mountain |
What makes this exciting? |
The exciting part of this photo is that someone is up high in the sky with no visible harness. |
How do you think the characters feel? |
Climber: I think that the climber is a bit nervous because he could fall and die but I also think that he is ecstatic because he is high up and he probably has lots of experience . |
Photographer: I think that the photographer is less nervous than the climber because he has a harness but if he drops the camera it would break and the camera looks very expensive. |
Write a 200 Word recount as either the CLIMBER or the PHOTOGRAPHER.
Remember; your challenge is to use DESCRIPTIVE Language to SHOW, not TELL your audience what is happening.
On an early Saturday morning I went climbing with a good friend. When I got to the mountain I put on a soft furry coat that was over an inch thick. He then handed me a camera and gave me a harness. We started to climb but after I took a look at him I saw him way higher than me and he was without a harness. So I started to climb faster to catch up to him and took a photo but since I was so focused on catching up to him I didn’t realise that we were in the snow of the mountain until I took the photo. I looked down and I realised how high up I was. I got a little nervous but then I remembered I was on a harness that was thick. I asked him where his harness was and he said he had lots of experience with this mountain and that’s why he’s in a thin singlet because apparently he was hot. I thought he was crazy and that he was freezing on the way down. I was so glad I was off of that mountain that I jumped up and down. |