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Daily English ChallengesThis week’s focus: poetry and paintingsChallenge 1: How do you use PERSONIFICATION to bring everyday objects alive?In the Video Resource Centre, see English teacher tutorial 1 wc 6th July.What is personification?Personification is the writing skill of making objects that are not alive behave as if they are.By doing this, we can bring the everyday setting around us alive – literally!e.g. The car engine purred excitedly as the boot gobbled the holiday suitcases.It is essential to carefully think about powerful verbs and adverbs when using personificationFirst, read the poem, The Midnight City’ on the following pageSecond, read it again but this time circle the VERBS (and adverbs if they are used) that make the objects seem they are alive. E.g. waits patiently brings the statue alive.Now it’s your turn to plan your own personification poem. You can choose your setting: e.g. a school, your garden, your house, a street in a city.Thinking of your setting, in the first column make a list of as many non-human objects as you canThen, in the second GOOD VERB column, think of a VERB that makes it sound like that object is alive!Lastly, in the BETTER and BEST verb columns, try to choose better and better verb choices – you may wish to add an adverb or a preposition too!That’s it for today, you will write your poem tomorrow.The Midnight City(a personification poem)The ghostly statueWaits patiently in the night,Listening to the whispering treesAround its plinth,Leaves dance and tumbleIn the chill airThe wind sniffs here,Sniffs thereSearching every cornerOf the desolate parkA distant siren wails;Closed curtains shrug their shouldersThe lonely moon stares intentlyAt the creeping carsWhilst the frost dresses the rooftops of the midnight cityChallenge 1: A personification poem planning sheetMy setting is: My house Non-living object or thing in the settingGOODpersonification verb choiceBETTER personification verb choiceBEST personification verb choicee.g kettlee.g. whistlese.g. chatters excitedlyHisses angrily on the counter, demanding attentionChallenge 2: How do you turn your PERSONIFICATION plan into an engaging poem?What is personification? A reminderPersonification is the writing skill of making objects that are not alive behave as if they are.By doing this, we can bring the everyday setting around us alive – literally!e.g. The car engine purred excitedly as the boot gobbled the holiday suitcases.It is essential to carefully think about powerful verbs and adverbs when using personificationYour challenge today is to tune into the teacher tutorial video in the Video Resource Centre: see English teacher tutorial 2 wc 6th July to see an example of the writing process of how to turn a great plan into a great poem.After watching this video, use your plan from yesterday to create your poemChallenge 3: How do you build a noun phrase?Below is a painting by L.S. Lowry who was born towards the end of the Victorian era. His work often depicted cities crowded with people and factories following the Industrial Revolution. We are going to use his painting to write powerful poetry using personification and descriptive noun phrases. Today, you will focus on planning your high quality noun phrase … but what is a noun phrase?What is a noun phrase?Let’s start off with a simple reminder: A NOUN PHRASE is a group of words that are built up around - and tell you more about – a NOUNe.g. an old, mouldy banana in the fridgeIn the above example the noun is banana and we know it is old, mouldy and in the fridge!Your challenge today is to write some noun phrases using the Lowry picture as inspiration. Start by making a list of nouns from the picture and then stretch these using adjectives and prepositional phrases. Adjectives Noun Prepositional Phrase bustling, chatteringfactory workersthroughout the squarePrepositional Phrases in... on... by... behind... next to... between... beside... with... of...Challenge 4: How do you effectively plan your ideas?Your next challenge is to combine different writer’s skills as you plan your final Lowry poem by generating high quality language using one of his paintings.Don’t worry today about how they will fit together, tomorrow’s teacher tutorial will show you how to do this!Noun PhrasesUse yesterday’s challenge to choose – and possibly improve – your favourite noun phrases using adjectives and prepositionsPersonification ideasAs practised in challenge 1: can you make objects that aren’t alive appear as if they are with a well-chosen verb?e.g bustling, chattering factory workers throughout the squaree.g. streetlamps stood proudly like watching policemen.Powerful verbsTo describe the actions of people or things in the sceneSimilesBring the setting alive with a few well-chosen similes by making imaginative comparisonse.g. billowing (smoke)e.g. Children scurried like ants across the town square. Challenge 5: How do I apply my learning to write my own Lowry inspired poem? In the Video Resource Centre, see English teacher tutorial 3 wc 6th July.Use your model text, your plan and your learning from the week and write your poem using the Lowry painting for inspiration.Remember to rehearse each line aloud first (improve it if you can).Write it in your neatest handwriting.Read it back to yourself checking that it makes sense and is correctly punctuated - look at the model text to help you here.Once you have finished, read it all back through and see if there are any aspects that you can improve. ................
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