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.