Room 7 have been focusing on varieties of language features to use in our narratives for our tests. Everyone in my class have been stressing about our tests, but to get rid of the nerves for Writing we went over the language features and what we need to improve on in our writing. Such as our sentence structures, our ideas, punctuation, spelling, vocabulary and paragraphs.
We also looked at the different kinds of language features and came up with original examples or examples from the internet.
Alliteration- Letters in a sentence that start with the same letter
Sally Sells Shells on the Sea Shore
Climax - A point of at which the action in the story or play reaches it's emotional peek.
The little girl went looking for her dog. She hears a bark around the corner of a building and as she comes around......
Conflict -A resolution in a story or true events
I woke up in a hospital, in sight were nurses and injured soldiers.
Contrast - A comparison of someone or something to another object or person
Ally and China were best friends but they literally had nothing in common. Ally has black hair, green eyes and loves horror movies. And China has ginger hair, blue eyes and loves romance movies.
Figurative Language- A word or phrase which is non-literal
I've told you a hundred times, like a tape recorder on replay
First Point of View- The point of view writing refers to himself ("I")
I walked through the Alley, and a shadow appeared behind me. I walked faster and the shadow sped up as well.
Hyperbole- The use of exaggeration
Her brain is the size of a pea
Imagery- A description of something that helps the reader imagine what it actually looks and smells like
Her delicate brunette hair glided along with the wind, spreading a velvety aroma in the air. Her green, grass coloured eyes blinked continuously at the sight of the water scenery.
Metaphor- A figure of speech that is applied towards a object or object but which is not literally possible
Bubbly Personality
Onomatopoeia- Sounds spelled out as words
Boom, Splash, Boing, BANG!
Personification- Referring to non living object as a human or doing human things
The Tree was naked and cold
Sarcasm- An ironic remark that seems like you are pransing something or someone but you are really taunting them.
When something bad happens-" Are you okay?". "I'm great, just terrific" said sarcastically
Simile- A comparason using "as" or "like"
Sally was as bright as the flarng sun
Symbolism- The use of one thing to represent another
A white flag is the symbol of someone surrendering or A dove is the symbol of piece
Tuesday, 25 October 2016
Friday, 21 October 2016
Abstract Art🖌
Abstract art was created in the 19 centuries from Europe. Abstract art used to be painting of real things such as people, animals. But the artists were sick of painting real things and decided to paint using variety of colour and shape. Abstract now and back then are disguised images of objects or people.
This artist has a very unique style of show casing his art work and sculptures.
Kadar Brock
This artist has a very unique style of show casing his art work and sculptures.
Kadar Brock
Kadar Brock is an New York artist. He layers Canvases with paint then sands objects down to make holes in the canvas. The outcome of his paintings are crusty and worn out layers of paint. He gets this inspiration from Dungeons, dragons and magic car games. His art is displayed in all sorts of Magazines.
Wednesday, 19 October 2016
Chapte Four-Private Peaceful💐
Chapter Four: Ten To Midnight
In this chapter the boys had realized that the stones Molly told their futures with was very correct. But unfortunately whenever they weren't with Molly, they were not so lucky. They had gone poaching for the first time without Molly and disaster struck. Tommo fell asleep as he was on the lookout, but usually the presence of Molly kept him awake. They were caught by the Colonel's lookout, Lambert. They were taken to Big house to the Colonel and were given a punishment. They also had to apologize to the Colonel for trespassing and as their punishment, they had to clean the colonel's dog kettles every Sunday till Christmas. Molly got better by then and continued going school. As Tommo turned 12, Molly and Charlie moved out of school to work at the big house and Tommo found that he hardly got to see any of them. He began to feel left out and the stories he told them didn't interest them. One day a plane landed near Charlie and Tommo and the pilot asked them for some directions. Later he had offered them some humbugs. His hum bugs are confiscated at school by Mr. Munnings and was given 6 whacks on his hand with a ruler. Charlie came home and told Tommo he had stolen Bertha because the Colonel was going to shoot her because she was too old so Charlie told her and hid her in his father's old shack.
In this chapter the boys had realized that the stones Molly told their futures with was very correct. But unfortunately whenever they weren't with Molly, they were not so lucky. They had gone poaching for the first time without Molly and disaster struck. Tommo fell asleep as he was on the lookout, but usually the presence of Molly kept him awake. They were caught by the Colonel's lookout, Lambert. They were taken to Big house to the Colonel and were given a punishment. They also had to apologize to the Colonel for trespassing and as their punishment, they had to clean the colonel's dog kettles every Sunday till Christmas. Molly got better by then and continued going school. As Tommo turned 12, Molly and Charlie moved out of school to work at the big house and Tommo found that he hardly got to see any of them. He began to feel left out and the stories he told them didn't interest them. One day a plane landed near Charlie and Tommo and the pilot asked them for some directions. Later he had offered them some humbugs. His hum bugs are confiscated at school by Mr. Munnings and was given 6 whacks on his hand with a ruler. Charlie came home and told Tommo he had stolen Bertha because the Colonel was going to shoot her because she was too old so Charlie told her and hid her in his father's old shack.
Monday, 17 October 2016
Chapter Three summary-Private Peaceful🌺
Chapter Three: Nearly Quarter Past Eleven
In chapter three, Big Joe's love for mice grew but unfortunately for him, Grandma wolf hated mice and hunted for them with her every might. Tommo remembered how Big Joe held the biggest funeral that a mouse could ever have. On Big Joe's Birthday Molly got him a field mouse which he adored so much but he had to hide it from Grandma Wolf. Somehow Grandma Wolf found out about the mice and killed it, along with his other animals: his hedge hog, slow worms and others. Molly, Charlie and Tommo start to poach illegally on the Colonels land, catching rabbit, salmon and deer's if they were lucky enough. All three of them go skinny dipping in his lake. Molly tells their future using stones and the stones said "As long as they were together, they will always have good luck". As the near end of the chapter, Tommo and Charlie find out that Molly has Scarlet Fever and was not authorized to Molly nor was Molly to to see them.
In chapter three, Big Joe's love for mice grew but unfortunately for him, Grandma wolf hated mice and hunted for them with her every might. Tommo remembered how Big Joe held the biggest funeral that a mouse could ever have. On Big Joe's Birthday Molly got him a field mouse which he adored so much but he had to hide it from Grandma Wolf. Somehow Grandma Wolf found out about the mice and killed it, along with his other animals: his hedge hog, slow worms and others. Molly, Charlie and Tommo start to poach illegally on the Colonels land, catching rabbit, salmon and deer's if they were lucky enough. All three of them go skinny dipping in his lake. Molly tells their future using stones and the stones said "As long as they were together, they will always have good luck". As the near end of the chapter, Tommo and Charlie find out that Molly has Scarlet Fever and was not authorized to Molly nor was Molly to to see them.
Chapter two summary-Private Peaceful🌼
Chapter Two: Twenty To Eleven
In chapter two, Tommo remembers his memories with his brother Joe or Big Joe who is disabled. He remembered the time where Charlie and Tommo had fed Big Joe rabbit droppings and as a consequence of doing so their mother had made each of them eat one each. Also the moment when a bully was mean to Tommo because of Big Joe's Disability, which caused a fight between the two. The bully was bigger than Tommo, so he was beaten up. Charlie stepped in and took one for the team, ending up with a punishment of 5 strokes(Hits). That was also the day where Charlie and Tommo had became best friends with Molly, when she was instructed to clean up Tommo. One day the Colonel (Who is sort of the mayor) arrived at the Peaceful's to kick them out because no one in the family is working. In order to save their cottage, Mrs.peaceful had to work at the Big house(The Colonels house) as the wife's maid for she was sick. Grandma wolf, their great aunt, has to move in to look after the children. Grandma wolf, bosses Mrs. Peaceful around as well as the kids, and doubts Mrs. Peaceful's parenting.
In this chapter we meet Grandma Wolf, Colonel and get to know more about Molly, Charlie, Big Joe and Tommo
In chapter two, Tommo remembers his memories with his brother Joe or Big Joe who is disabled. He remembered the time where Charlie and Tommo had fed Big Joe rabbit droppings and as a consequence of doing so their mother had made each of them eat one each. Also the moment when a bully was mean to Tommo because of Big Joe's Disability, which caused a fight between the two. The bully was bigger than Tommo, so he was beaten up. Charlie stepped in and took one for the team, ending up with a punishment of 5 strokes(Hits). That was also the day where Charlie and Tommo had became best friends with Molly, when she was instructed to clean up Tommo. One day the Colonel (Who is sort of the mayor) arrived at the Peaceful's to kick them out because no one in the family is working. In order to save their cottage, Mrs.peaceful had to work at the Big house(The Colonels house) as the wife's maid for she was sick. Grandma wolf, their great aunt, has to move in to look after the children. Grandma wolf, bosses Mrs. Peaceful around as well as the kids, and doubts Mrs. Peaceful's parenting.
In this chapter we meet Grandma Wolf, Colonel and get to know more about Molly, Charlie, Big Joe and Tommo
Chapter One Summary-Private Peaceful🌻
Private peaceful is the novel my reading group is reading. We read a chapter a week also completing worksheets we are given based on the chapter we have read. This is my brief summary on the first chapter.
Chapter one: Five Past ten
In the first chapter, Tommo Peaceful, a soldier at war tries to flash back to his child hood moments at school when he first started. He also remembers his dads funerals and how he regretted not running away from the falling tree or his father would still be alive. His brother, Charlie Peaceful, is introduced and he is three years older then him. Charlie is caring and tough, he stands up for Tommo, even gets into fights for him. Also Mrs. Peaceful, Molly, Mr. Munning, Big Joe, Miss. McAllister and Molly is introduced.
Chapter one: Five Past ten
In the first chapter, Tommo Peaceful, a soldier at war tries to flash back to his child hood moments at school when he first started. He also remembers his dads funerals and how he regretted not running away from the falling tree or his father would still be alive. His brother, Charlie Peaceful, is introduced and he is three years older then him. Charlie is caring and tough, he stands up for Tommo, even gets into fights for him. Also Mrs. Peaceful, Molly, Mr. Munning, Big Joe, Miss. McAllister and Molly is introduced.
Respect quotes
Respect is a huge topic my class and the rest of the school is focusing on. Respect for others, self, environment, property and learning-our school values. These are the 3 top quotes that I think are very meaningful.
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