T2+narritive+writing

__Tuesday 14 June 2011__ S.C we can describe what our marshmallow looks like smells like feels like tastes like.

WALT: use our sences to help describe in our writing.

looks like My Marshmallow is the color of a snow flake drifting down from the sky on a cold winters night, it is about the size of a large sized marble and has a flaky coat of flour just like snow.

smells like it smell s like a sweet vanilla ice cream with a pinch of fairy dust to round it off.

feels like it feels like a bumpy mountain with a slight spongy feel like the snow is caving in. it also feels like wrinkly skin on a old person.

tastes like


 * __Monday 20th June__**


 * __WALT - identify personifications and use them in our writing__**

S.C. - we can identify the human trait being described we can identify the object being given a human trait we can write our own examples of personification we can explain why this helps to create a picture in our mind

__being personified and explain which human trait or action is applied to the object or idea.__ __1. The wind whispered through the dark and gloomy forest.__ __2. The gardener lovingly added the manure to his crops believing he was making happy flowers.__ __3. As we walked through the scorching desert, the sun beat down on us.__ __4. Time crawled as Tim sat in the hot detention room painfully watching the clock tic.__ __5. The lumberjack leveled the many trees into a clearing and his chainsaw sang its deadly song.__ __**Personification Worksheet**__ __**Personification:** a figurative language technique where an object or idea is given human traits or characteristics.__ __What is being personified?__ Wind _ Which human trait or quality is given?__ Whispered __ __What is being personified? _ H appy flowers __ Which human trait or quality is given?__ Lovingly __ __What is being personified? _ Sun _____ Which human trait or quality is given?__ Walked What is being personified? __ Time _____ Which human trait or quality is given?__ Time_crawled _____ __What is being personified? _ Chainsaw __ Which human trait or quality is given?__ Chainsaw sang it's deadly song __ __6. When Monica walked through the shoe store, each shiny pair of high heels called out to her.__ __What is being personified? _ Shiny pair of high heels __ Which human trait or quality is given?__ called out __ __7. When the patriots defeated the redcoat army, freedom rang across the fruited plains.__ __8. As Alice searched for her missing pencil, she said sarcastically, “Well, I guess it just walked off of my desk.” She looked at her classmates accusingly.__ __9. Kelly was so happy that Tom and she were moving in together, but when she walked into her new residence, she dropped her suitcase. She had never seen the inside of the house which Tom’s grandmother had given them, and though she was grateful to receive such a nice gift, the ugly yellow wallpaper in the kitchen screamed at her. She knew she would have a lot of work to do to make her new house livable.__ __10. William knew that he shouldn’t have eaten the last cookie out of the cookie jar. He knew that his father loved to eat chocolate chip cookies after work, but William ate the last one anyway. Now as he waited for his father to come home, guilt poked and chewed at William. As delicious as the cookie was, William now wished that he had never opened that cookie jar.__ __What is being personified?__ _ Which human trait or quality is given? __What is being personified?__ _ Which human trait or quality is given? __What is being personified?__ _ Which human trait or quality is given? __What is being personified?__ _ Which human trait or quality is given?__
 * Name: _____** __**Directions:** In each sentence, an object or idea is personified. Identify the object or idea that is__