The anzac button

WALT: Summarise the author's purpose

SC: Complete the timeline showing how you felt through the narrative

The Anzac Button by Judy Raymond. Illustrated by Elisabeth Al-ix Batt.

The writer has written the story, as if the buttons are alive, or have real human feelings. This type of language feature is known as personification.

By interpreting the clues provided by the buttons decide what the wearer of the jacket did through the

years.

Answer with full sentences .

1. Why do you think the jacket and buttons were left in the cupboard for a year at a time? Explain your answer with as much detail as possible.

2. Key Vocabulary

1. khaki the men in the army had a khaki jacket
2. pride  the man had pride
3. dodged the man in the war dodged the bullet  
4. battlefield in the the war the men went on the muddy battlefields
5. trench the men in the war sleeted in trenches   
6. mildew the jacket at the back of the closet had mildew growing on it
7. pre dawn  a lot of people go to a dawn parade the man sing in the pre dawn
8. wail a prolonged high-pitched cry of pain, grief, or anger.: "Christopher let out a wail".
9. rummaged the boy thought the pen was in his bag then he reached in for it and he was rummaging in his bag
10. gleamed the man shined brightly, especially with reflected light.

3. Create a timeline to show how the button felt throughout the story.  

Time	During the war it was sunny	Parade	cupboard in	cupboard out	give it away	wads	take it of	Parade
Feeling	sad	happy	alone	happy	sad	happy	happy	nervous

4. Write a paragraph pretending you are a basketball, use personification to describe how the basketball feels after a game.

How will it feel if you were a basketball .i would be saw and yucky because by getting thrown around and going under teenages smelly armpit.

A bike is important  because  if you need to get somewhere fast and you don't have a bike. abike has pedals and it helps you stop and go and it has lights because if you're on a bike at night the light could help you at night.

maara:

Trent i fixed it for you.next time when you write do size

18 ok.

positive digetal footprint

Going to motat

1.at first room 7 came to school and got our name tag the seniors grouped up outside of the hall Mrs Parker done the three group ups when she finished we all went on the bus when. I was on the bus it was noisy but I was just sitting there and then Mrs Raj said that I was doing a good job by sitting and staying quit.

2.finally we got there the instructor welcomed us then took us to the meeting place first we had a little snack before we went and looked around Then we finished our snack then went with our parent carer to look around. We went to a phone place with old phones then we went to a old shopping market after that we went to the mirror maze it was fun but scary at the same time because me and my friend was the only kids in there but finally we got out. At 2pm the seniors meet back up then room 7 went with the instructor to a room with anzac materials from in the war the instructor was talking about the materials she said that we can try out the materials the first thing that I used first was the binoculars I could see far as when we finished the instructor took us to the gate and then we hopped on the bus and went back to school.

3.I had fun at motat and I hope you did to.