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Parts Of A Narrative

Thursday 20 october 2016

Parts of a Narrative

Orientation: Setting, Characters

Conflict: Problem

Resolution: Problem resolved.

Features of a narrative:

Written in past tense.

Separate ideas into paragraphs

Add detail to your ideas

Use of adjectives: place before nouns

Use of adverbs

Use of figurative language: Similes, metaphors, personification,.

Different forms of punctuation:

Speech marks, commas, exclamation marks.

Compound sentences

Complex sentences

Short snappy sentences

Different sentence starters

E.g:

Begin with adjectives

Begin with adverbs

Begin with prepositions

Hyperbole

Tuesday 20 September 2016

Hyperbole

A hyperbole is a form of a figurative language like similes and metaphors. Hyperboles are used for emphasising and humour in speaking and writing.

Examples of hyperbole

• It was so cold I saw polar bears wearing jackets.
• I had a tine of chores to do.
• She is as thin as a toothpick ( Simile / Hyperbole ).
• He was skinny enough to jump through a keyhole.
• He smile was mile wide.
• His brain is the size of a pea.
• You are walking slower than a snail.
• His stomach is a bottomless pit.
• I was so hungry that I could have eaten an ox.

Personification

Thursday 15 september 2016

Personification

Everyone knows what a person is, but do you know what personification is? A personification is when you assign human qualities to something that isn't alive.

Examples of personifications

• The stars DANCED playfully in the moonlit sky.
• The run down house APPEARED depressed.
• The first rays of the morning TIPTOED through the meadow.
• The bees PLAYED hide and seek with the flowers as they buzzed from one to another.
• The river SWALLOWED the earth as the water continued to rise higher and higher.
• The thunder GRUMBLED like an old man
• At precisely 6:30am my alarm clock SPRANG into life
• The news TOOK me by surprise.
• The EVIL tree was lurking into the shadows.
• The ocean DANCED into the moonlight.

Explanation writing: The water cycle

Tuesday 13 September 2016

Did you know that there is the same amount of water on the earth today as when the earth was created. Water is very important for the survival of plants, animals and human beings. I will provide you with an explanation on how water is recycled.

The water cycle is also call hydro logical cycle. This includes precipitation, evaporation, condensation and transpiration. Water changes from liquid, vapor and then back to liquid again.

Firstly water from the  lakes, rivers,  streams and sea is heated by the sun and then evaporates. When it evaporates, it forms clouds by a process called condensation.

When the  clouds become heavy it falls down as rain assisted by gravity. If it falls down in solid form, it is snow or sleet.

The water reaches the ground and flows across the land until it reaches rivers, lakes streams and the sea. Some of the water also sinks into the ground.

The water cycle begins all over again by evaporation. ]

Glossary.

Precipitation: The action or process of precipitating a substance from a solution.

Evaporation: Is the process of a substance in a liquid state changing to a gaseous state due to an increase in temperature and/or pressure

Condensation: Water which collects as droplets on a cold surface when humid air is in contact with it.

Transpiration:  Is the process by which moisture is carried through plants from roots to small pores on the underside of leaves, where it changes to vapor and is released to the atmosphere.

Reading: Correct Use Of Commas

Thursday 8 September 2016

Correct Use of commas

• We bought apples pears bananas and oranges for the fruit salad.

= We bought apples, pears, bananas and oranges for fruit salad.

• Although we arrived early the restaurant was full.

= Although we arrived early, the restaurant was full.

• Yes you can put the christmas tree up tomorrow.

= Yes, you can put the christmas tree up tomorrow.

• If you eat your Vegetables you may have dessert

= If you eat Vegetables, you may have dessert.

• Lizards snakes and turtles are all reptiles

= Lizard, snakes and turtles are all reptiles.

Poem: The great water giant

Tuesday 6 September 2016

The great water giant: Poem

The great water giant

Has finished his bath

He pulls the huge plug

Out if the clouds

He roars his thunderous laugh

And a wet slippery waterfall

Spills out of a squelchy sky.

Look out below he seems to

Shout

As the water

Splashes , splashes, polishes

Polishes gushes , rushes  

And soaks deep into the thirsty

Earth.

Questions.

1. What is the poem about? Water

2. Which figurative language is used throughout the poem.  Personification

3 . Why do you think the words look out below is in speech marks?  The rain is talking.

4. What can we infer about the earth? Tell me the word that indicates this. Thirsty.