In Lesson 2 we learnt that writers use _______________ to help us feel, see, taste or smell their writing. sensory details In Lesson 1 we found out that writers use _______________ to help us follow the order of their writing. sequence words

2. Try to write a description using similes. 1.Learn how to identify similes as a way of describing one thing by relating it to something else.

Similes From Angels In The Dust by Margot Theis Raven Source: School Library Journal: Great-grandma Annie tells of growing up in the 1930s in Oklahoma. As Annie and her sister watch, dirt fills the air, covers the fields, and has to be battled indoors and out. "Dust pneumonia" brings death to their mother and Annie takes over the housekeeping. She finds a way to water her vegetable garden despite the drought and shares the produce with struggling neighbors. A fire destroys their house and leaves them without resources. They survive, Annie remembers, by hard work, by the love between father and daughters, and by the good will of the neighbors they had helped.

What are similes? Similes use the words like or as to describe someone or something by comparing it with someone or something else that is similar. Let’s watch a video from to find out more about similes. Listen carefully. There will be a quiz afterwards.

What do they feel like? What do they do to people? How do they effect the land? Do you know about any dust storms?

News Report Quiz 1.What colour was the haze? 2. On which day did the storms happen? 3. What were people told to do during the storm? 4. How far could people see during the storm? 5. What happened to the temperature because of the storm?

A B C D E F 1.grit2. wither3. prairie 4. plain5. chore6. drought

Similes: Some examples something is AS adjective AS something His skin was as cold as ice. It felt as hard as rock. She looked as gentle as a lamb. something is LIKE something My love is like a red, red rose. These cookies taste like garbage. He had a temper (that was) like a volcano. something [does**] LIKE something He eats like a pig. He smokes like a chimney. They fought like cats and dogs.

something is done LIKE something He eats like a pig. He smokes like a chimney. They fought like cats and dogs. She drinks like a fish.

[is] AS adjective AS something meaning as blind as a batcompletely blind as cold as icevery cold as flat as a pancakecompletely flat as gentle as a lambvery gentle as light as a feathervery light as old as the hillsvery old as sharp as a knifevery sharp as strong as a bullvery strong as white as snowpure white as wise as an owlvery wise Grandma Wong is as old as the hills.

[is] LIKE something possible meaning (depending on context) like a rosebeautiful like a volcanoexplosive like garbagedisgusting like an animalinhuman like spaghettientangled like dewdropssweet and pure like golddustprecious like a tipvery untidy like a dreamwonderful, incredible like starsbright and beautiful

The earthquake made the buildings as flat as a pancake.

5C classroom is as noisy as… ---a market. ---a flock of birds ---a Chinese restaurant.

You should be as quiet as…. …a church mouse

Similes …I lived on a wheat farm, as flat as a breadboard. That’s where the land reaches out as straight as a handshake, …like the end of a pot. …as big and blue as a bowl of prairie sky What’s being compared? The wheat farm and the bread board The land and a handshake The land and a pot The sky and Mama’s eyes

Similes …scorching hot and stiff as dragon’s breath. …until it looked as cracked and as old as Mama’s white milk pitcher. Still it came to call like an unwanted visitor. What’s being compared? The winds and a dragon’s breath. The dry land and a milk jug. The dirt and an unwanted visitor.

What’s being compared? The dust on the kitchen table and a chalkboard. Similes …I liked to trace my name in the dirt as if it were a chalkboard.

Find the sentence to match with the pictures.

Answers I lived on a wheat farm as flat as a breadboard.

The land reaches out straight as a handshake

…Papa said I had Mama’s eyes - as big and blue as a bowl of prairie sky.

The dirt came in. It came to call like an unwanted visitor.

I like to trace my name in the dirt as if it were a chalkboard.

Homework Write about a person or place that you know very well. Use at least two similes in your writing. Use at least 60 words. Sample answer My grandmother grew up at the start of the 20 th century. At that time, she was as poor as a church mouse. But she worked hard and survived to live until she was as old as the hills. Even though she was as deaf as a post in old age, my grandmother always seemed to be as cheerful as a lark and that is how I will always remember her.