One day a boy named Jerald was walking down the road. He had found some dirty shoes filled with dirty water. He picked up the shoe and poured the water out of the shoe. Then he decided to take it home. He asked if his dad could clean the shoes and he said yes. After that day he went to school and he said to his friends. I am getting new beautiful shoes. His friends didn’t believe it was beautiful. Those shoes aren’t going to be beautiful, his friends said. Once his dad finished cleaning the shoes. Jerald came and was really happy when his dad finished cleaning the shoe. After that day the Jerald was excited to show his friends his new shoes. When Jerald came to school, everyone was surprised and shocked about his shoes. Some people were jealous because Jerald is shoes was amazing and magnificent. Jerald had people to be his friends and they all would always look at his shoes and sit next to him. Jerald had the best day ever and was very happy to have his shoes.
LI: To use the 5 senses and personification to help us paint a picture with words. To understand that personification is to give an inanimate object human qualities
- Our challenge was to co construct a text using personification and the senses to describe the story behind the shoes in this image. We sat back to back and weren’t able to talk… Half way through Mrs Anderson challenged us to include a rhetorical question and a simile or metaphor…
- Once we had completed this part of the challenge we joined together with another group to share our writing and make sure what we had written made sense.
- After that part of the challenge was finished we used the punctuation points game to… We marked eachother’s punctuation against the points table. We then had a chance to check our own work against the points table. That was fun because every point our partners missed menat we could take a point off theirs.
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