The difference between a keyboard and the piano is that a piano is a acoustic instrument and the keyboard is electric and the piano's keys are heaver than the keyboard. The black keys play the flats and the sharps. On the keyboard your left hand plays the cords and your right plays the melody.
I really enjoyed learning the keyboard skills because I feel like I got much better at moving my fingers form key to key.
I found it hard to move my fingers to the right keys and remembering which key I had my fingers on.
Who is Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder was born in 1950.
He was born six weeks early, with other complications causing him to become blind.
His full name is Stevland Hardaway Morris.
He is one of the most successful musicians of the 20th century.
He is a well known singer, song writer, pianist and record producer.
For this activity we had to pick an emotion and write about it, I chose to do betrayal. After writing down things that we thought of to do with that emotion, we used what we learnt with figurative language to write a few sentences. Here is mine.
Alliteration
The sun sizzled the swimmers skin.
I accidentally ate an awful apple. Beth borrowed Barry’s books before biology. Slipping and sliding, I stumbled in the snow and slush. Many mysterious men mumbled messages.
The gallant goat gobbled gobs of garbage greedily.
The rapidly rising river rushed rampantly.
Red roses shone as the rising sun glowed ruby red.
While wandering the wobbly white whale wobbled.
The tired traveller, tried to take the weight off at the bottom of the track.
Personification
The wind whispered through the gloomy forest.
What is being personified? The wind
What human trait or quality has it been given? The wind whispered
The gardener lovingly added the manure to his crops believing he was making happy flowers.
What is being personified? The flowers.
What human trait or quality has it been given? The flowers have feeling and they are happy.
As we walked through the scorching desert, the sun beat down on us.
What is being personified? The sun.
What human trait or quality has it been given? The sun beat them.
The lumberjack leveled the many trees into a clearing and his chainsaw sang its deadly song.
What is being personified? The chainsaw.
What human trait or quality has it been given? The chainsaw sang.
As Alice searched for her missing pencil, she said sarcastically, “Well, I guess it just walked off of my desk.” She looked at her classmates accusingly.
What is being personified? The pencil
What human trait or quality has it been given? The pencil is able to walk/move on it's own.
When Monica walked through the shoe store, each shiny pair of high heels called out to her.
What is being personified? A pair of high heels.
What human trait or quality has it been given? The pair of high heels called out.
My book gave me hug telling me everything is going to be alright.
The song was my best friend it was always there.
The cat cried and screamed for someone to care about them.
The number hit me for forgetting it.
Onomatopoeia
A plate being dropped on the floor. Smash
A balloon being burst. Pop
A gun being shot. Bang
Someone eating chips. Crunch
A light being switched on. Click
A fierce dog. Growl
A small bell being rung. Tinkle
A door opening. Creek
A bomb exploding Boom
A child screaming. Screech
The old engine chugged down the rickety track.
The hard-hit tennis ball whistled by my ear.
The truck’s brakes screeched in the distance.
The rain beat on the metal barn roof.
His guitar strings twanged the sad melody.
The old floor creaked as we walked slowly across it.
The fire cracked and popped on a cold night.
The snake hissed when I startled it.
I sreached as the bell went signalling the end of the day.
Bang. "What was that?" "Nothing just me closing my book"
Snap! There goes that rubber band.
Smack! I walked into a draw handle again.
Hyperbole
I’m so hungry I could eat a whole elephant! (Hyperbole/Not)
May is the nicest month of the year. (Hyperbole/Not)
Her brightly coloured dress hurt his eyes. (Hyperbole/Not)
The roof rose up and down to the rhythm of the music. (Hyperbole/Not)
I ate all of my salad for lunch. (Hyperbole/Not)
The dog was so dirty it had a tomato plant growing on its back. (Hyperbole/Not)
A strong. The wind knocked me over.
A headache. My headache is killing me.
A fast computer. The computer when like the wind.
A funny movie. I died laughing at the movie.
A hot pan. The pan was hotter than the inside of a volcano.
A loud, crying baby. The crying baby was a siren.
Heavy groceries. The grocery weights.
A scary dog. The dog was a demon.
Revision
‘As straight as an arrow’ Simile
‘Lucky lady’ Alliteration
‘Boom!’ Onomatopoeia
‘The city was a jungle’ Metaphor
My bedroom was as black as a cave in the depths of the earth.
The classroom after school became as noisy as a gaggle of gabby geese.
The cat capered along the fence top like a tightrope walker on the high wire.
My anger crashed into me like waves against the shore.
The cloth was as black as coal.
The wet ball was as slippery as an eel.
My little sister is as playful as a kitten.
The top of this table is as smooth as silk.
I’ve been as busy as a bee.
The lamb is as white as snow.
Similes and Metaphors
As slippery as an eel. Simile
Arnie was a man-mountain. Metaphor
He was a lion in battle. Metaphor
She is as pretty as a picture. Simile
The striker was a goal machine. Metaphor
The torch lit up the room as if the sun had already risen early. Simile
The moon was a misty shadow. Metaphor
My friend has a face like thunder. Metaphor
After the 3 o'clock bell when the school became the fields of Asphodel.
When the teacher randomly complemented me it felt like I was in the fields of Elysium.
Her rant when on infinitely.
She shone like the first stars in the night sky.
The ruby was a bright fire consuming the necklace.
She was as intelligent as Athena.
What have I learnt? I have learnt how to spell metaphor.
How does this work show my learning? This shows that I can recognise metaphors and similes and write my own.
What am I wondering? How long have similes and metaphors been around for and who wrote the first similes and metaphors.
Figurative language - Saying one thing but meaning something else.
Literal language - Meaning exactly what you say.
Simile - Compering two unlike things using the words like or as.
Metaphor - Compering two unlike things not using the words like or as.
Personification - Giving human qualities to non-human things
Imagery - Writing with detail to arouse one or more of the five senses.
Idiom - A phrase common to people who speak the same language - saying one thing but meaning another.
Hyperbole - An exaggerating on facts.
Alliteration - Repetition of constraint sounds in a piece of writing.
Idioms
What have I learnt? I have learnt what an idiom is and a few sayings.
How does this work show my learning?
What am I wondering? How long have idioms been around for and who wrote the first idiom.
