Précising: sage grouse

Writing Ideas

• Writing as a female sage grouse, you have decided to place a lonely hearts ad in the latest edition of The Daily Bird. What are you looking for in a partner? How would your ideal sage grouse attract you?
• Imagine you are an older male sage grouse. Write an instructional guide to a younger male bird about how to attract a mate. Think about the different techniques demonstrated in the clip.

• A cinquain is a five-lined poem (hence the name). They are easy and fun to write as they don’t require a whole lot of words! They also reinforce some basic grammatical parts of speech:

Line 1: One word (a noun, the subject of the poem)

Line 2: Two words (adjectives that describe the subject in line 1)

Line 3: Three words (-ing action verbs that relate to the subject in line 1)

Line 4: Four words (a phrases or sentence that relates feelings about the subject in line 1)

Line 5: One word (a synonym for the subject in line 1 or a word that sums it up)