Unit 6
Listen to your teacher read another poem about the wind.
Reading
Hurricane Clouds, dem racin'. Trees, dem bendin'. Raindrops, dem hammerin' like bullets ‘pan de roof. Buckets, dem flyin’ like crazy ole birds. An’ de ole wooden gate - Him ah do a desperate dance.
Simile
Leonie Bennett
1 a) What are raindrops compared to? b) What is the bucket compared to? 2 Is the gate really dancing? How do you think it is moving? 3 Compare the two poems.
a) How are they the same? b) How are they different? 4 Which poem do you prefer and why?
Similes
A simile describes something by comparing it to something else, using like or as . The wind roared like a lion. Joel was as quiet as a mouse.
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Find two similes in the poem, ‘Hurricane’.
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Read aloud the poem 'Hurricane' from this page.
• You can point out that saying that the gate is ‘doin’ a desperate dance’ is a metaphor. Metaphors are explained on page 68. CR Ask students how they would say de ole wooden gate in Standard English. You may wish to wait before looking more closely at the Creole in the rest of the poem until students study use of the present continuous (as in Clouds, dem racin' ) in the language section of this unit.
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