Date: April 17, 2000

Grade Level(s): 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Subject(s):

• Language Arts/Writing (composition)

Description: Students use their imagination and writing skills to describe the appearance, feel, smell, and taste of a Hershey Kiss while pretending they don't know what chocolate is.

Goals: Students write using appropriate forms, conventions, and styles to communicate ideas and information to different audiences for different purposes.
Students make sense of the various things they observe.

Objectives: Students will create a writing piece using their senses of sight, touch, smell and taste to describe the outside and inside of a Hershey Kiss without using the words chocolate, Hershey, or Kiss.

Materials:

• one Hershey Kiss per student
• paper/pencil

Inform students that they are to pretend that they are from another planet. Their planet is exactly like Earth only it does not have chocolate.

Tell students that they are going to receive an unknown object. They are not to touch it. "Do not do anything until I tell you."

Lay a Hershey Kiss on each child's desk. Remind them that their planet does not have chocolate so they have no idea what the object is.

Tell students to write a descriptive paragraph about the appearance of Object X. They are not allowed to touch it!

Allow student to use their sense of touch to feel the object. Write a descriptive paragraph about their observations.

Have students peal the wrapper from the object so that the inside is exposed. Students are to use their nose and eyes to write a descriptive paragraph.

Have students place the object in their mouths *Check allergies prior to activity*. Instruct them not to chew! Write a descriptive paragraph about the taste and the feel. "Remember, you've never had chocolate, so you don't know that word."

Finally, instruct students to write how much they like object X, what they would do for another piece and give the object a name. "Be creative!"

Allow students to share their pieces.

Assessment: