How an image can tell a story

For week 6 we read Spoon by Charles Simic to explore how intense descriptive language can create a whole history. Then we looked at pictures from The Deep, and each student made their own descriptive story.


From Ms. Gonzalez's Class:

Spookfish

So blue and bright

Broken fins as if someone grabbed
them and tore them apart

Only leaving the bright bones
that look like x-rays in the
dark.

Lives deep, deep down and

Doesn’t want to come out
because of the light that’s so big

And bright and kills the spook-
fish eyes, those big round things

That could help it see through

That dark, dark world

Around the sea!


by Rosario H.



Glowing Sucker Octopus

It stares at the sea
with it’s scary eyes,
it has two horns that
make it look like the devil.

He goes on a hunt
and opens his eyes wider,
he hopes to be the predator
and hopes not to be the prey.

Glowing through the water
it floats with it’s tentacles
they pop up in surprise,
and the other fish try to
disappear in the dark ocean.


by Hector P.



Spookfish

It’s funny how
it looks on the
big blue ocean
and it goes.

It has big eyes
like a sad owl in the night
it will shine, shine, and shine.

It’s head is big
like a dog in it’s
dish.

by Veronica G.


From Ms. Formisano's Class:

Creature

Cock-eyed, dangerous, scaly,
sharp teeth and horns.

This creature has the smartness
of a shark.

There is no doubt that this
creature is like a piranha.



Spookfish

Deep down in the sea
its swims fiercely
searching for food.

It swims silently
and his skull and bones
are a sign of death.

He can see in the dark
with his big bubbly eyes.

He glows in the dark
like a ghost.

A spookfish!


The Dumbo Octopus

A fat sea animal
with two small ears,
likes to eat a lot.

He makes sounds
like pi-pi-pi.

It also has one eye
and a funny looking
nose.



From Mr. Lukas's Class:

The Creature

from the deep sea
it kills it hunts
to eat

The creature is
strong, rough, rugged
and tough, eats all
the sea stuff

The creature defends
it’s property and kills
with no mercy, trust me.

By Inocente B.

The Spookfish

It’s deep
blue
stare, with
it’s light bulb eyes,
a grin
from eye to eye.
400 to 2,500
meters under
the sea,
size 20 centimeters.

It’s dead
movements
swimming through
the sea
the
deep book
is where it’s
at.

by Alejandro P.

Spookfish

Blue, white, and scary
The blue eyes would spook you
It spooks it’s prey
It has wings
To soar the sea
The blue eyes
hypnotize you then when you
least expect it Wham!
You’re in it’s stomach.

By Eladio V.