The Mind's Eye: A Class Exercise
In our second lesson, we teach the children to use the Mind’s Eye, the imagined picture inside our heads when we read a story, as a writing tool. As writers, we can use the Mind’s Eye like a camera, writing description from left to right or up to down, and move the reader’s Mind’s Eye so they can easily picture what’s happening.
Here are some of the highlights:
Picture 1: Describe the hummingbird drinking dropping water use the Mind’s Eye. Choose a camera move and describe all the way through the frame.
The water drops suddenly became bigger and moved slowly. The little bird was flying between the drops. It wanted to touch it .
Big drops of water poured down suddenly. The lucky humming bird who had flown nonstop for two days happily drank the drops of water through its long black beak.
She was alarmed as it was completely dark in the room because the electricity ran out due to the heavy rain and typhoon. She covered her eyes with her hands tightly and she was trembling. Her face was covered with tears. She was calling to her mother.
Many bubbles are falling down to the green grass. On top of the grass, a little bird is busy catching the bubbles, enjoying it.
The weather was cool and fresh. I saw everything clearly. Raindrops were coming down to a bird. The bird was starving. He didn’t care what it was or where it was. He tried to eat it, but he couldn’t. It was too slippery.
It was raining outside and lots of water dropped down. They were like pearls and a humming bird with brown, green, and pink feather thought it was food and ate it and ate it but it couldn’t. Although it couldn’t eat it, it didn't give up.
The plants were slowly turning brown. A vibrant hummingbird's mouth was parched. It had been three weeks since it has rained. Suddenly, drops of water appeared. The hummingbird flew as fast as he could, drinking as much water as he could.