Novel Study Memoir Poem

Today we were working on our second memoir poem for our novel study. Our success criteria was to be really descriptive and make sure that our adjectives and nouns were more than one syllable. To plan this we had to use an ANV (Adjective, Noun, Verb) chart. 

Memoir Poem

The concentration camp was rough enough.

The smoke smelt horrendous, the fence was towering and the food here was basically crumbs.

The powerful creek was streaming and the rusty dirt was crumbling.

The barbed fence was soaring above us.

Weakening jews were stumbling and cruel Nazis were beating the innocent.

Cold-blooded soldiers were gassing.

Weak. Depressed. Scared

Scared for my life.

Novel Study Memoir Poem

Today the class was working on writing a poem on our novel study, I had to do it on my book ´The Boy In Striped Pajamas.´ We did most of the sentences with an ANV (Adjective,Noun,Verb) chart. We had to put a picture in the readers mind of what was actually happening. We had to describe the scene and the situation. 

Memoir Poem 

The new house was significant enough, it had dull concrete walls, a tedious oak tree and a tiny yard.

Hopeless case Gretel was wondering up and down the halls.

The tiresome trees were swaying and there were weak jews wandering in the camp.

There were scary soldiers marching all around the house and dreadful Hitler was gassing. Brainwashed Nazis were banishing the innocent.

Scared. Confused. Worried.

Terrified for my life.

Novel Study 100 Word Challenge #2

This week I was working on my second 100 Word challenge for the next 3 chapters on my novel study. Something I was working on was creating a picture in the readers mind and keeping it to only 100 words.

100 Word Challenge

Chapters 4-6

It was the second day at our new home and I was arranging my dolls on my shelves all around the room when Bruno rushed through the door yelling my name. ¨Do you ever knock? Bruno!¨ I yelled in frustration. ¨You have to come see this Gretel!¨ I followed him down the hallway where he was walking slowly down to the small narrow window inside his room. I took a look outside the window but all I saw was trees then in the distance where Bruno was pointing to was a little farm and there were lots of people were running around but they were all boys and there were no girls at all.    

Novel Study 100 Word Challenge

This week we started our novel study and the first thing we had to do was write a 100 Word Challenge for the first 3 chapters of our book. My book that I´m reading is ´The Boy In Striped Pajamas.´

100 Word Challenge

Chapters 1-3

The year was 1943 and I had just arrived back from school Maria was in my room snatching all my things from my wardrobe and shoving them into a huge suitcase. I was really confused, why was she packing up my room? Are we going somewhere? I didn't know what to do.  Mother said we're moving. Then the next day we loaded all of our things into a big truck and we followed it to our new place. It was smaller than our home back in Berlin and it was really boring it didn't have anything special about it, it was just concrete.

Holidays

Holidays 

This morning, we wrote 5 basic sentences about our holidays. We looked at a range of different connectives that will improve our writing. A connective is a word that joins simple sentences , e.g. such as, never the less, in spite of etc. next we spent time improving out 5 basic sentences by using connectives. Do you use connectives? If so, which ones? 

For the first week of the holidays I lazily lay on the couch most of the time watching netflix.

Nearly everyday we jumped in the car and traveled to Invercargill to see my Poppa because he was in hospital.

Despite the bad weather my mum, my brother and I still went to kidzone for the day.

For a couple days I stayed in a house that my aunty was renting in Invercargill and since it was cold my cousins and I tried to light the fire but nearly burnt the whole house down.

Near the end of the holidays we took a trip to town to watch the new spiderman movie with my cousins while eating lots of lollies and popcorn.

First Aid DLO

After our session with Felicia from St John's in Schools we realized we had learnt a lot. We thought...how can we share what we have learnt? So we brainstormed lots of ideas...from making movies to presentations to art projects. Eventually we split into groups and decided what we want to create.

My group was Emma,Carey,Khali and I and we decided to create a movie to share our learning.

Digital Dig

Digital Dig

The past couple weeks I have been working on my digi dig which is a slide that we have to complete and it teaches you some tips and small things like shortcuts you can use which using a Chromebook. I was working on getting it done in a short amount of time because I was away for a week at technology.