Mike the Tiger Descriptive Writing Assignment

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Mike the Tiger Descriptive Writing Assignment

• Mike the Tiger Photo Taken by Jude Dubois

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Building Background on Mike the Tiger!

• Mike the Tiger is the mascot on the LSU College
  Campus in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
• Read the "History of Mike the Tiger".
• Mike the Tiger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• In Louisiana, he is a famous and beautiful tiger.
  Click here to see and hear clips of Mike the
  Tiger.

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Mike the Tiger Descriptive Writing Assignment

• Goal of this project To describe Mike the Tiger
  and his habits by using your five senses. (See
  the web on the next slide to explain how to set
  up the paragraph.) Final project will involve
  writing a descriptive paragraph about Mike the
  Tiger.
• It is important to use descriptive words. In the
  third slide the descriptive words are highlighted
  in yellow
• Targets 2nd Grade GLE 22
• See sample questions below.
• What would you see if you visited Mike?
• What might you hear?
• What would Mike like to taste and eat?
• How would Mike feel if you touched him?
• Can smell help Mike hunt or with his eating
  habits? How so?

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Descriptive Mike the Tiger Web
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Have you met Mike the Tiger?

• Have you met the LSU mascot Mike the
  Tiger? Mike is a huge tiger who lives on the LSU
  campus. Mike is beautiful with his gold and
  black stripes of fur. He roars loud and he
  scares people sometimes. Sometimes people scream
  loud when he moves quickly! Mike loves to eat raw
  meat. To him, the meat is a tasty meal. When
  Mike is near meat, he can smell his delicious
  meal. When my two year old cousin visited Mike in
  Baton Rouge, he asked his dad if Mike the Tiger
  was going to eat him? Why do you think he asked
  his dad that question? Yes, he was very afraid
  of Mike. It seems that he does have soft fur,
  but many would never take the chance to feel if
  it was very soft or not. Have you have met Mike
  the Tiger? I have and he was a beautiful tiger.
  I have to be honest. I was extremely happy he
  was in his large steel cage when I went to see
  him on the LSU campus!