Exploring metaphor, simile, and personification--Week 7

This week the students read Fog by Carl Sandburg. Each student wrote their own poem using an animal to describe a force of nature.

From Ms. Gonzalez's Class:


Tornado

A tornado is like a cheetah,
Running rapidly around the earth,
Ripping out trees and blades of grass.

You see it for a dew seconds, like a quick
commercial. It spies on it’s prey then leaps out
of nowhere and disappears after it has left a mess.

By Stephanie A.


A Tornado Is Like a Bull

Get in it’s way it will
know you out.

It is big, scary, and
moves really fast.

Tornado is a bull you
won’t know where
it will charge.

By Jose M.

Hurricane

A hurricane comes in like a burglar
A burglar comes in when you don’t know.
The hurricane washes off
all your stuff like when a burglar
comes and takes your belongings away.

By Nayeli O.


From Ms. Formisano's Class:

Snow

The snow comes
on like pieces of a white paper
blown onto your face.

It falls down
like a white bird’s
feather
onto the ground.

By Maria B.



Earthquake

An earthquake comes like a
stampede of rhinos.

They come really fast and they
leave the same way.

By Gustavo M.



Tsunami

The tsunami comes
fast like a lion.

It grows over
little islands
on loud shores
and then moves on.

By Aniceto D.


From Mr. Lukas's Class:

Wind
Salvador A.

Wind like an
elephant
blows hard
into the air.

Hurricane
Esteban G.

The hurricane
twists you like a
bull full of fury.

The furious bull
swings you place
to place like a
hurricane, they
do the same
damage.

Sunny
Eduardo R.

The sunny day comes
on a little yellow bird.

It sits looking at the
beach on silent sand
and then moves on,

To make the rest of
the day just as sunny.