Overcoming Personal Challenges - MLK

2 things you learnt today about Martin Luther King...

Your Personification Sentences

We have recently written a poem using personification. Please post your favourite personification sentence below:

Figurative Language - Personification

What is Personification?

Personification is when you make a thing, idea or an animal do something only humans can do.

The wind yells while blowing (the wind can't yell, but it gives us the image of the wind being very loud)

The stars danced playfully in the night sky (the stars are twinkling, but 'dance' is more poetic)

I could hear Hawaii calling my name (I really wanted to go to Hawaii)

This video clip has some good examples of personification created by other Grade 6 students:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TKJItZ_qkw 

Sentence of the week

"Since you have decided to have a school trip but have not chosen a place yet, I thought I could help you choose a place." By Polly, 6D

"As the moon cast down an ominous veil of light, it revealed a dead, blood covered carcass." By Anh, 6C

Reading Strategies (Priscilla and the Wimps)

Predicting = Guessing what will happen next.

I think that he will be saved by his friends from the locker.

Inferring = It says in the story...I know...So I can infer (understand) that ...

It says: "Practically everyone in school could show you his scars"

I know: Scars come from when we are hurt

I can infer: that the Kobras are violent

Connecting = linking events in a story to your life

There are bullies in this story. What do I know about bullies? Do I know any bullies? Have I ever been bullied?

Visualizing = Imagining with pictures

"The Odd Couple....Priscilla was...the largest student in our particular institute of learning...Melvin was...one of the smallest guys above midget status ever seen."

Imagine what this couple looks like - describe them or draw a picture.

Sentence of the Week

"We can see that both are loyal and have an unbreakable bond between them." By Polly, 6D

"After the Warden came, X-Ray received a day off after all that time digging in the hot shining glazing ray from the big red fireball, otherwise known as the Sun." By Bill, 6C

Sentence of the Week

"Stanley is compassionate and loyal to his first real friend, Hector Zeroni." By Davina, 6D

"Maybe he felt more comfortable with the boys there than in his hometown." By Pearl, 6C