Dawn Treader & Five Senses
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Create 5 paper bags with a picture of the 5 senses on each. Place items in each bag. A child tries to get others to guess what is in the bag by describing how it smells, looks, feels, etc. Next, read passage from book showing how C.S. Lewis describes items using all 5 senses.
Steps & Setup Instructions
- Preparation: Tape a picture of each of the five senses on 5 brown paper bags (see teacher packet). Next, place the following items in each: Smell (an orange), sound (chips), taste (chocolate), touch (fork), sight (carrot)Describing Using The Senses
- Ask a child to look in the back and describe the item using the sense indicated (i.e. for orange, describe how an orange would smell). The other kids have to guess the item in the bag. After the children guess, have a different child try to determine what is in the bag by using that sense (i.e. for orange, the child would smell in the bag). Point out that it can be really difficult to describe things well using the different senses.
- 5 Senses & Voyage of the Dawn Treader: Read the following passage and ask children to identify when a new sense is talked about. How many senses does Lewis talk about? “What they were seeing may be hard to believe when you read it in print, but it was almost as hard to believe when you saw it happening. The things in the picture were moving. It didn’t look at all like a cinema either; the colours were too real and clean and out-of-door for that. Down went the prow of the ship into the wave and up went a great shock of spray.… At the same moment an exercise book which had been lying beside Edmund on the bed flapped, rose and sailed through the air to the wall behind him, and Lucy felt all her hair whipping round her face as it does on a windy day. And this was a windy day; but the wind was blowing out of the picture towards them. And suddenly with the wind came the noises— the swishing of waves and the slap of water against the ship’s sides and the creaking and the over-all high, steady roar of air and wafer. But it was the smell, the wild, briny smell, which really convinced Lucy that she was not dreaming. Stop it, came Eustace’s voice, squeaky with fright and bad temper. “It’s some silly trick you two are playing. Stop it, I’ll tell Alberta — ow!” The other two were much more accustomed to adventures, but, just exactly as Eustace Clarence said “Ow,” they both said “Ow” too. The reason was that a great cold, salt splash had broken light out of the frame and they were breathless from the smack of it, besides being wet through. Explain that one reason why Lewis’ writing is so powerful is that he is able to describe items using all five senses.
Date added: 11/30/-0001
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