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Quick Conversation
• Share your work with a partner. Discuss your responses. How do these words help you visualize the setting? What do they make you see and feel? Record notes from your discussion.
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The adjective helps me see .
In my opinion, the word makes the setting the most vivid.
I think the adverb helps me understand .
Write a Short narrative Description
After analyzing the descriptive language in “The Drummer Boy of Shiloh,” you have enough information to write a description of the story’s setting. Write a short narrative description of the story’s setting using some descriptive language from the text as well as new adjectives and adverbs.
Unit 1 • The Challenge of Heroism • Part 1: “The Drummer Boy of Shiloh” 11
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